5-Ingredient Honey Baked Ham Recipe

No need to spend a lot of money or time on your favorite holiday ham; this year, make your own version with this 5-Ingredient Honey Baked Ham Recipe. It’s ridiculously easy and always a hit.

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Key Recipe Ingredients

You’ll need just 5 simple ingredients:

• Brown Sugar provides a warm molasses sweetness to the sauce. Be sure to pack it down tight when measuring.
• Whole Grain Mustard, sometimes known as country style mustard, is key to the delectable honey mustard sauce. It’s not your average yellow mustard.
• Honey works together with the brown sugar to bring a tantalizing sweetness to the salty ham. This honey is my favorite, as it’s raw, unfiltered, organic, and affordable.
• Apple Cider or Juice brings a sweet acidity to the basting sauce. Be sure you’re getting juice and not vinegar.
• Spiral-Sliced Ham is easies to use, as it will already be pre-sliced. However, you can use a regular ham and slice it thinly yourself.
  
  Tip: Here’s a tidbit about coarse ground or country style mustard, with visible mustard seeds within. It makes a notable difference in flavor. We use it for this Honey Mustard Chicken with Curry, which tastes amazing.

Step-By-Step Recipe Instructions

1. Make Sauce: Mix together apple cider, brown sugar, mustard, and honey in a bowl. Mix well to fully incorporate basting sauce.
2. Bake: Place ham in a 13×9 or similar-sized baking dish. Coat ham with a generous amount of sauce. Bake for 60-70 minutes, basting thoroughly every 15 minutes.
3. Serve: To serve pre-cut slices of ham, arrange slices neatly on a serving dish and brush more sauce all over ham slices. Serve with leftover sauce.

Pro Tips

• Ham: Be sure to get the spiral sliced ham if you want ease of slicing; plus, the juices really sink in with the pre-sliced ham cooking in the oven.
• Sauce: Basting sauce can be made several days ahead of time and reheated when ready to use.
• Baste: Don’t skimp on the basting sessions – baste ham every 15 minutes during baking, for juicy results.
• Serving: If you’d like to serve the ham with slices arranged in a dish for easy serving, simply arrange the slices in your choice of serving dish and brush the sauce in between slices and on top. This ensures that every slice will be juicy and flavorful.

What to Serve With Ham

Potatoes

• Smashed Potatoes (Extra Crispy!) – super fun to make and extra crispy, even better than tater tots!
• Garlic Herb Roasted Potatoes – garlicky potatoes that pair with any meal.
• Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes (5 Ingredients) – comes together super quick, and turns out creamy-delicious every time.

Grains

• Wild Rice Pilaf – the flavors are incredible, as are the textures and colors.
• Gluten-Free Wild Rice Stuffing – festive and delicious, a perfect pairing with ham.
• Quinoa Sweet Potato Salad – nutritious and delicious, yet easy to prepare.

Breads

• French Bread Recipe – this simple recipe makes 2 gorgeous loaves.
• Easy Sourdough Bread – rather than slicing it for sandwiches, cut it up into squares.
• How to Make Homemade Dinner Rolls – these take only about an hour!
• Parmesan Garlic Pull-Apart Bread Rolls – simple, delicious, and irresistible.

Vegetables

• Easy Roasted Vegetables Recipe – so easy and hugely flavorful.
• Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Butternut Squash – beautifully festive!
• Kale Brussel Sprouts Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing – pairs well with all your holiday meals.
• Best Broccoli Apple Salad – stays crispy for hours.

Commonly Asked Questions