Louisiana Root Beer Ham
At a Glance
- Prep
- 20 minutes
- Cook
- 1 hour 45 minutes
- Servings
- 1 glazed 4 lb ham
Categories
- Main Course
- American
- Easy
Dietary
- Dairy-free
- Egg-free
- Nut-free
Allergens
- No obvious major allergens identified from the ingredient list.
Servings & Nutrition
Original recipe serves 12. Current scale: 1x.
Nutrition and servings are approximate based on the ingredient list. Please verify for dietary or medical needs.
This Louisiana ham uses high quality root beer, tabasco steak sauce, cloves and cinnamon for a bit of kick!
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Ingredients
- 1 (4 lb) cured smoked ham
- 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
- 3/4 cup dark brown sugar
- 24 ounces Barq's root beer (two cans)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons tabasco Caribbean style steak sauce
- 6 cloves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 orange, juiced and zested
- zest of 1 lemon
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place the ham in a broiling pan and score with a crisscross pattern across the top half
Combine the brown sugar and the dry mustard and pat it all over the ham.
Put the ham in the oven.
Combine all the other ingredients in a saucepan.
Bring the mixture to a boil, then lower to a simmer, and cook until the liquid volume is reduced to about one cup.
Strain.
Spoon some of the glaze over the top of the ham.
Spoon more glaze, at 15-minute intervals, until it is all gone.
Continue baking until the ham reaches an internal temperature of 160-degrees on a meat thermometer.
Remove from oven and allow to rest for about one hour before carving.
