Thursday, December 24, 2009

Anyone have a good ham gravy recipe?

Im baking ham with coca cola and i dont think i can make gravy with it though.Anyone have a good ham gravy recipe?
here it is..





HAM AND GRAVY





Preheat oven to 300 to 325 degrees.


If a sliced ham, you don't need to do anything to prepare it for the oven other than have the butcher tie it up with butcher's string.





If it is a whole ham (with the bone-in), you will have to remove the skin covering it, but the directions to do that are usually on the package covering the ham.





Place ham (sliced or not) in a large enough roasting pan or high sided cake pan. It's really good to add some cloves on top of the ham, it gives it a richer flavor. I usually don't do this, but only because I don't like cloves.





Cook ham approximately 15-30 minutes. While it is cooking, take 1 to 2 cans of sliced pineapples, drain juice into a bowl and let the cans sit for a couple of minutes to let all the juice drip into the bowl.





Add 1 box of dark brown sugar to the juice and stir.





Now pull the ham out and pour the pineapple juice and brown sugar mixture over the ham. Put the pineapple slices on the ham with toothpicks. Add maraschino cherries on top of the pineapples, if desired (to look nice).





Return the ham to the oven, and continue to baste every 15 minutes or so. There is usually a baking chart on the ham to let you know how long to cook it, but sometimes I lower the temperature to 275 to 300 degrees and let it cook for 1-3 hours, depending on the size, continuing to baste it so it doesn't dry out.





When done, remove the ham from the pan and drain the ham drippings and juice into a large pot. Put that on the burner and bring it to a boil. Add cornstarch or flour (at about a tablespoon at a time) to that, stirring continuously, until it thickens. This is not really a gravy but a thick sauce with a sweet ham flavor.





If you do not use the brown sugar (or at least not a whole box), it will still be fine, but you may not have as much juice or drippings. Also the gravy will be more like gravy and less sweet like a sauce.Anyone have a good ham gravy recipe?
Make a mustard sauce added to this recipe.


Basic White Sauce. (Roux)


2T Butter.


2T Flour.


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1 Cup of Milk.


Melt butter in a small saucepan. Add flour, seasonings to taste.


Gradually add the milk, stirring all of the time, (on medium heat), until sauce thickens, then cook for 3-4 minutes.

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