Roast Gammon with Orange and Apricot Glaze
cooking time
60 minutes
cooking skill
Not too tricky
serves
6 people
Ingredients
- 1x 1.35kg lean gammon joint
- 6 tablespoons fresh orange juice
- 4 tablespoons apricot jam
- Pinch ground ginger
- 3 dried apricots, roughly chopped
Method
1
Place a the gammon joint in a large saucepan and cover with water. Bring to the boil and simmer for 30 minutes.
2
Heat the orange juice, apricot jam, ground ginger and apricots, in a pan for 5 minutes.
3
Remove the joint from the pan, drain, remove the rind and any excess fat and score the remaining fat into diamonds. Place in a roasting tin lined with foil and brush with some of the glaze.
4
Bake for the remaining half of the cooking time. Re-glaze again and if joint starts to catch cover with foil.
5
Cut the gammon into thick slices and serve with orange and coriander couscous, broad beans and drizzle with any hot glaze from the bottom of the roasting pan.
