Slow Cooker Ham with Honey Marmalade Mustard Glaze
Learn how to make a slow cooker ham with this delicious recipe for Slow Cooker Ham with Honey Marmalade Mustard Glaze.
The ham slow cooks during your busy day and comes out with great flavor thanks to the tasty glaze.
It is the perfect slow cooker ham for the holidays!
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Last Thanksgiving we hosted a big group at our house.
Naturally we made a TON of food.
We roasted an Apple Cider Sage Brined Turkey
And smoked a Turkey.
But we also made this super easy, crowd-pleasing Slow Cooker Ham with Honey Marmalade Mustard Glaze.
I wanted to share the recipe again, because I know many people don’t think about Ham when it comes to Thanksgiving.
However, if you’re looking for a simpler solution than roasting a turkey – I know it can be intimidating if you’ve never done it before – this ham is a great option!
Slow Cooker Ham with Honey Marmalade Mustard Glaze also works well when you. want something a little smaller than a huge bird.
Or if you want a lot of variety.
Or mane you just want to change up your Thanksgiving menu.
Ham is a great holiday option.
I love how this recipe just sits in the slow cooker for most of the day.
I probably won’t ever make a ham in the oven again because this slow cooker ham is so easy and so good.
The meat is really juicy and tender, the whole house smells great.
The homemade glaze, which consists of brown sugar, honey, orange marmalade, and mustard makes such a difference and gives the meat amazing flavor!
How to Make a Slow Cooker Ham
First, you’ll will combine all of the honey marmalade mustard glaze ingredients in a saucepan.
Then, cook until the sugar is dissolved.
After you place the spiral sliced ham in the slow cooker, use a pastry brush to baste the ham all over with the glaze.
Make sure you get the glaze not just on the outside, but also in between the spiral slices.
Then, the slow cooker does all the work for the next 6 – 8 hours.
You can baste periodically if you like, every couple hours.
That helps keep the ham from drying out, and makes it really flavorful.
Once the ham is done, remove it from the slow cooker.
Place it on an oven safe platter.
I like to thicken some of the cooking liquid with some cornstarch to make a really thick glaze.
After thickening the glaze, I baste that all over the top of the cooked ham.
Place the glazed ham in the oven on broil until it gets nice and sticky.
It makes the outside of the ham look really shiny and attractive.
You can also thicken and of the extra cooking liquid to serve alongside the ham at the table.
What to serve with Slow Cooker Ham with Honey Marmalade Mustard Glaze
If you’re looking for holiday recipes to pair with this ham recipe, definitely take a look at the Thanksgiving Recipes and Christmas Recipes in the recipe index for some ideas.
You can also check out my Thanksgiving Recipe and Planning Guide for even more holiday tips!
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Original Post from Oct 4, 2016 follows below:
September is a busy birthday month for us.
We recently had Madeline’s birthday and just 8 days after that we celebrated Kendall’s 13th birthday.
We officially have a teenager now.
Fun little fact about our new household with 4 kids is that both girls celebrate their birthdays in the same month…and both boys share a birthday month in the spring!
I like to let the kids pick what they want for their birthday dinner if they have something specific in mind that they want me to make.
Madeline wanted Chicken Parmesan, it is an old recipe so I didn’t have a new dinner recipe post to share for her birthday (only the Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream and Fresh Raspberry Sauce we had for dessert).
Having a teenager is definitely a new, and learning, experience for me.
My oldest only turned 11 this year, and is a boy.
And what sometimes feels like overnight I magically have a teen girl – who I haven’t known from birth and had a chance to get to know her whole life.
It has been a good thing though.
I totally enjoy her as a person.
I can usually count on her for a good laugh – she’s pretty hilarious.
Sometime I’ll have her write up a blog post so you all can enjoy her snarky quips and humor.
Kendall had a very specific request for her birthday dinner.
HAM.
She has been obsessed with ham lately.
We had ham as part of a family potluck at Kevin’s parents’ house a couple weeks ago when we celebrated Kevin’s change of command.
We ended up taking some leftovers home and she couldn’t get enough of it.
She wanted to know how soon we could have ham again.
Ham isn’t something I make very often.
So, I got to work on brainstorming what I would do to said ham.
In searching for ham recipes I saw lots of honey glazed ham, mustard glazed ham, and slow cooker ham.
I was reminded of my Honey Marmalade Mustard Glazed Corned Beef recipe and had a hunch that the glaze, or a similar one, would be really good on Kendall’s ham.
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I loved the idea of cooking the ham in the slow cooker so I could get it going early in the day and essential leave it alone until dinner time.
That would give me the freedom to run errands or work on other recipes and things that I needed to do.
The fact is, whenever I actually remember to pull out the slow cooker, I’m always a huge fan of using it.
(Keyword here being “remember”)
When we had this meal for Kendall’s birthday dinner we had just a couple of other dishes on the table since it wasn’t a big holiday meal.
A simple roasted broccoli and this recipe for Cream Cheese Chive Duchess Potatoes, inspired by this Mascarpone Chive Mashed Potatoes recipe, paired really well with the ham for dinner.
Dessert was a giant chocolate chip cookie cake that I made and adapted from my very favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe.
Sadly, that recipe didn’t get photographed.
Not so sadly is the fact that we’ll be making it again soon so we can get a recipe up here on the blog!
We had a great dinner and a fun time opening presents.
We also had some awesome leftovers, both in the form of a ham bone and actual pieces of ham.
We used the leftovers to make this Slow Cooker Ham Soup with Potatoes and Kale.
The soup recipe turned out to be a bigger hit with the family than I thought it would be.
Making a big ham in the slow cooker for dinner was definitely a win!
Now that we’ve gotten our first ham dinner as a family on the books, Kendall periodically brings up the subject of “ham.”
As in, when can we have ham again?
I guess that is always a good sign that a recipe turned out well!
Happy Birthday Kendall!
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Can you suggest cooking times for smaller hams? I might use a quarter ham.
I have not done a ham that small, but I would cook for 2 – 3 hours for a smaller ham and test the tenderness of the meat and if it is hot all the way through. If not, I suggest checking at 30 minute intervals after the initial 2 – 3 hours. Good luck!
Can you use like a pre-cooked spiral sliced ham? The sort that you just put in the oven to warm and glaze?
Yes
If you use a pre cooked ham, do you cook it for the same amount of time?
Yes this was a precooked spiral ham I got at Costco.
Love luv this glaze…..it is just my husband an I so making a whole ham doesn’t happen often. I bought about small boneless quarter of a kentucky legends ham, sliced it 1/4 to 1/2 in. slices. Placed in a shallow bake pan, coated an baked for 30 min 375 turning and coating every 7 min.. ..dear hubby loved it! i make it about once a month now…Thank you!
YUM! So glad you like it!
I would love to try this recipe for Thanksgiving. But we will be in an RV for the holiday and the oven is not big enough, and has no broiler option. If we skipped the oven step would it still work? Or any suggestions? Thanks!
Yes, you can skip the oven/broiler. Just boil and thicken some of the glaze in a saucepan, with cornstarch wisked if necessary, and serve with the glaze. Does that make sense? Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!
I want to do this Thanksgiving morning, but will need to use the oven as my ham is too big. Any suggestions on how long to oven bake?
It depends on what temperature you are wanting to cook the ham at. If you cook it very low, around 225-250 degrees F, in the oven in a dutch oven with a lid, you can cook it longer as if you are slow cooking it. If you want to cook it for less time then you would increase the heat to 350 degrees F and cook it around 10-15 minutes per pound. Hope that helps. Enjoy!
a gorgeous recipe, whether for Thanksgiving or not! Thank you for this recipe, haven’t made this type of ham recipe in years, great reminder!
Does the ham need to be pre-cooked or can I put a raw ham in using this recipe?
In my experience ham is usually precooked but it is cold from the grocery store. I always use a pre-slice spiral ham in this recipe. Unfortunately I haven’t seen a raw ham so I can’t comment on that.
This looks so good but, what do you suggest in lieu of the mustard. My husband hates all mustard??
I suppose you could leave it out.