When the holiday sales come around on ham I like to buy several and stock up the freezer. My family asks me to make them pretty often and I love when they do because I have a super simple recipe that I use and the ham always turns out tasting wonderful. Since the hams are pre-cooked and just have to be warmed up, usually in the oven for several hours, they often end up pretty dry and can be tasteless if you’re not basting them from time to time while they’re cooking.
To keep the ham moist and scrumptious my super easy method is to use the slow cooker and a can of soda. You can choose any brand of cola that you like, but make sure it’s not diet – the sugars in the cola caramelize on the ham and the slow cooker helps keep it from drying out. All you have to do is put your frozen ham, right out of the freezer, in the slow cooker in the morning, pour a can (or 12 ounces from a 2 liter bottle like I did) over the top of the ham, put the lid on and cook on low heat for 6 to 8 hours.
The best part is that you can just walk away or go to work and not worry about dinner, it will be ready when you are and when you cook the ham this way the sugars from the cola not only add some flavor, the cola also keeps it nice and juicy and the meat will be falling off the bone when you’re ready to serve dinner.
This looks amazing! I’ll have to give this a try!
Thanks so much! My favorite part is you don’t even have to thaw the ham first 🙂