Name: Guinness-Glazed Ham
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 130 min
Total time: 150 min
Yield: 20
Ingredients: 6 kg ham leg; 750 ml Guinness; 8 whole cloves optional; 1 cup brown sugar; 2 tsp mustard powder; 2 tsp ground cardamom; 2 tsp ground ginger; 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon optional

by samoman Last updated on 01/07/2020

An ideal Christmas ham, or an any occasion ham that can be cooked in an oven or even done on a barbecue that has a lid on it. - samoman

Ingredients

6 kg ham leg
750 ml Guinness
8 whole cloves optional

Glaze

1 cup brown sugar
2 tsp mustard powder
2 tsp ground cardamom
2 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon optional

Method

Step 1

Preheat oven or barbeque to 160C.
Step 2

Cut the skin around the knuckle of the ham without cutting into the fat or flesh.
Step 3

Ease the skin from the fat by slipping your thumb up under the skin and firmly sliding it back and forth.
Step 4

Ease the whole skin off, which should come off in one piece.
Step 5

Place the ham fat side up into a pan with the Guinness, reserving 2-3 tablespoons for the glaze.
Step 6

Cover with foil pressing the edges right down to make it as airtight as possible.
Step 7

Bake for 1½ hours. Lift the foil and baste the ham with the juices 3 or 4 times during cooking.
Step 8

Glaze: Combine sugar, mustard, spices and enough stout to make a thick paste in a bowl and stir well.
Step 9

Remove ham from oven, lift the foil off and pour off the liquid into a saucepan.
Step 10

Using a sharp knife, score the fat with 4 cm interval diagonal cuts, first one way then the other to form a diamond pattern.
Step 11

Spread the glaze over the ham and stud each diamond cut with cloves.
Step 12

Increase oven temperature to 200C and bake a further 30-40 minutes, basting every 10 minutes with the glaze.
Step 13

If serving hot, leave the ham in the turned off oven for 30 minutes.
Step 14

If serving cold, cool and put into refrigerator over night. Serve thinly sliced, although the hot ham you can cut off in chunks or thinly slice.

Recipe Notes

from Australia’s Best Recipes team

I have cooked this in my barbeque for Christmas dinner and it came out perfectly. This is a good recipe for the barbeque too. Easy to cook, although does take a little patience, but the end result is a wonderful glazed ham. You can serve it on a platter with a garnish of watercress or parsley.