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A Blood Orange Glazed ham recipe - an interesting twist on the classic Easter dish!
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Blood Orange Glazed Ham

Course Dinner
Cuisine American
Author Jennifer

Ingredients

  • 1 bone in ham sized to your needs
  • 4 blood oranges
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup water

Instructions

  • Zest 1 entire blood orange into a small sauce pot.
  • Then juice that orange and two additional ones (juice from 3 total oranges) into the pot.
  • Over medium heat, whisk in the brown sugar.
  • Let reduce until you have a slightly thickened sauce that can be poured over the ham.
  • When it is ready, preheat your oven to 275 degrees F.
  • Pour and then rub the glaze over the entire ham, then add the ½ cup of water to the bottom of the roasting dish.  Place in the oven tented with tinfoil for roughly the first hour, then remove for the remainder of the time.
  • You’ll want to cook the ham to an ideal temperature of 150 degrees.
  • Our 6 pound ham took about 2 hours, plan on roughly 20 minutes per pound.
  • When the ham is done, let rest for about 20 minutes to help hold in the juices.
  • Slice the final blood orange into rounds and add to