Organic Fresh Ham Recipe for Thanksgiving Dinner

If  you are like me, you enjoy leftovers for days after Thanksgiving. One of the best parts is being able to make sandwiches out of the ham and turkey, and soups out of all the leftovers. This year, we are doing organic pork ham. It has never been cured, salted or any of the things you would find with store bought ham.

Buy your organic pork and have it delivered. Ten pound, twenty pound and half hog packages available. Free freezer for first time buyers on half hog. www.naturoganics.com

Here is a great recipe for the holiday cooking. If you wait til Christmas, this will still be a winner.

Serves: Makes enough for 12 people

Ingredients

(1) 8-10 pound pastured ham (bone in, skin on)
Salt, garlic salt, and pepper to taste
½ cup organic apricot preserves or spread
¼ cup raw honey (slighted heated to melt)
½ tsp ground cinnamon
yellow mustard

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 F.
Rinse ham and pat dry.
Spread some yellow mustard all over the ham.
Very liberally salt your ham with unrefined sea salt and garlic salt. Don't worry about over salting the ham. Pepper your ham as well.
Bake until internal temperature reaches 160 F. This will be about 18-20 minutes per pound of meat. Mine took about 4 hours to cook and it was almost 9 pounds.
Mix together the apricot preserves, honey and cinnamon in a small bowl.
When the internal temperature reaches 140 F, start basting the ham with the apricot glaze (this is done for roughly the last 1½ hour of the baking). Do this every 30 minutes until the ham is done.
When ham reaches 160 F, take out of oven and allow to rest for 15 minutes. Slice and serve.

Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 serving

This recipe and image came from: https://wholelifestylenutrition.com/recipes/maindish/organic-pastured-fresh-ham-recipe-with-an-apricot-honey-glaze/