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Slow Cooker Cider Ham {giveaway}

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After a busy few weeks of traveling, I’ve been getting reacquainted with my kitchen, inviting Clara to wrap on her apron and join me at the counter.

Our Montreal winter has been bitterly cold and the snow keeps piling up higher and higher around the house. I’m sure many of you on the East Coast can relate. There’s never been a better time to delve into comfort food, so we’ve been simmering pots of chili, baking bread and roasting vegetables by the tray-full.

This cider ham was the first dinner I pulled together for my family this week. It’s from Brown Eggs and Jam Jars and, incidentally, this is the very first recipe I’m sharing on the blog from the cookbook. It’s one of my favourites, and simple enough to put together while jet-lagged, tired, and suffering from a head cold. Be sure to click through for the recipe, plus a giveaway for a KitchenAid 6-quart slow cooker.

Slow Cooker Cider Ham from Brown Eggs and Jam Jars: Family Recipes from the Kitchen of Simple Bites
Slow Cooker Cider Ham from Brown Eggs and Jam Jars: Family Recipes from the Kitchen of Simple Bites

I developed this recipe with my traditional Sunday Dinner in mind, a make-ahead, no-fuss dish that could hold its own as the star of the meal. It does all that, and yields enough for leftovers, too. What more could you ask of a Sunday roast? Be sure to save the ham bone for Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup, another cold-weather favourite.

In the cookbook, this cinnamon-scented, mustard-crusted cider ham stars in an entire chapter on Sunday dinner, paired with Crispy Rosemary Roast Potatoes and Brussels Sprouts with Honey and Hazelnuts. Today, you get it as a preview of what lies between the covers of Brown Eggs and Jam Jars!

If you’re a real planner….you may want to Pin or bookmark this ham for Easter. I know, I know, it’s still a ways off, but I’m already dreaming of spring, so making a holiday menu plan isn’t that unreasonable.

Somehow, staying in from the cold has its appeal, now that we can linger around the table with family and friends.

Slow Cooker Cider Ham

This cinnamon-scented, mustard-crusted cider ham is the star of Sunday dinner.
4.37 from 19 votes
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Course: Main Dishes
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Paleo
Essential Ingredient: Ham
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 4 hours
Total Time: 4 hours 10 minutes
Servings: 10 people
Calories: 847kcal
Author: Aimee

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cups fresh-pressed apple cider (raw apple juice)
  • 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
  • 2 Tablespoons grainy Dijon mustard
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1 orange scrubbed
  • 7 pounds best-quality bone-in smoked ham (6-7lbs)
  • 1 cinnamon stick

Instructions

  • Pour cider into a 6-quart slow cooker. In a small bowl, combine maple syrup, Dijon, ginger and pepper. Zest the orange into the bowl and mix the marinade ingredients together.
  • Rub marinade all over the ham, using every bit of it, and place the ham in the slow cooker. You may have to trim the ham to make it fit. Just add the trimmings to the slow cooker as well.
  • Peel the orange and coarsely chop the pulp, discarding any seeds. Add the orange around the sides of the ham and tuck the cinnamon stick in also.
  • Cover the slow cooker and cook on low for 8 hours or on high for 4 hours.
  • To serve, transfer the ham to a platter. Cover to keep warm. Strain liquid from the slow cooker into a gravy pitcher and serve with the ham.

Notes

This ham will keep in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

Nutrition

Calories: 847kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 68g | Fat: 56g | Saturated Fat: 20g | Cholesterol: 266mg | Sodium: 647mg | Potassium: 974mg | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 30IU | Vitamin C: 7.3mg | Calcium: 71mg | Iron: 4.1mg

Giveaway

So many of my go-to recipes are made in a slow cooker, both here on the blog, and in my cookbook, so it seems only fair to offer one for your kitchen, too.

KitchenAid slow cooker

Thanks to KitchenAid Canada, I have one KitchenAid 6-Quart Slow Cooker with Solid Glass Lid to give away to a Canadian resident (sorry, international folks, this one is nation-wide only).

To enter: leave a comment and tell me what you would make first in this brand new slow cooker!

That’s it! Good luck to all.

Giveaway ends, Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8AM. Winner will be announced both here and on Facebook.

Cooking has always been Aimée's preferred recreational activity, creative outlet, and source of relaxation. After nearly ten years in the professional cooking industry, she went from restaurant to RSS by trading her tongs and clogs for cookie cutters and a laptop, serving as editor here at Simple Bites. Her first book, Brown Eggs and Jam Jars - Family Recipes from the Kitchen of Simple Bites, was published in February 2015.

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  2. Oh I would definitely try your ham. The recipe sounds amazing but I don’t have a slow cooker! Thanks!

  4. Oh my goodness, what a great giveaway! More than likely the first thing I’d make in it is some sort of veggie or meat stock–I make that pretty often. 🙂
    Sarah M

  5. My slow cooker staple is pulled pork or a similar version with pot roast. It’s tasty with only three ingredients not counting the meat.

  6. I have been wanting a slow cooker for so long–I don’t have one! I’d make a stew, or some sort of slow-simmered meat sauce.

  7. Another contest open to Qc residents, this is too much excitement to hold.I would make a pork dish called pampanella with pork shoulder, garlic, parsley and red wine vinegar. I am the one person who doesn’t own a slow cooker. I know folks get them for weddings. I have a friend who has two.

  18. I use my old (and battered) crock pot weekly in the winter. Chicken stock, chili, thick soups and stews; but if I had a new Kitchenaid crockpot, I’d probably splurge and make beef rolls!

  19. With Easter coming ’round the corner your ham recipe would be the perfect thing to break in a new slow cooker!

  21. I just stumbled upon your blog after looking at your new book online. It looks amazing! With a new slow cooker I would make a nice beef and root vegetable stew. It’s one of my winter favourites. Of course I’d try the ham as well 🙂

  23. I love to make a whole chicken at the beginning of the week. Or some chili or soup since it’s supposed to snow here tonight 🙂

  27. My Crockpot is on it’s last legs, its actually cracked and everytime I use it im afraid to find a mess when I come home!
    If I had this brand new crock-pot (which is bigger than mine too!) I would definately make this Ham in your honor! looks delish!
    I’m planning to make your lazy cabbage rolls this evening for tommorow! I bought organic ground beef and an organic cabbage for the occasion!
    Bloody winter here in Qc has been dreadful indeed!

  31. I have a huge list of things I would make, but I have to say this ham definitely caught my eye!! Looks delicious!

  33. I definitely would make the split pea soup……so I guess I would have to make the ham first….then on to chili!! I have never owned a crock pot so this would be the first for me!! Fingers crossed 😉

  34. 4 stars
    I would definitely make beef stew with potatoes, carrots and string beans. Just thinking about it now is making me hungry!

  37. I would work through your list of 6 Slow Cooker Recipes for winter, starting with the chicken in milk – sounds so interesting! Pick me! Pick me! Single mom with a busy career who loves nutritious and creative options for my 3 yr old. 🙂

  40. I think I’d try your slow cooker chicken in milk recipe. I’ve always wanted to make a chicken in milk, and yours looks great!

  42. 5 stars
    Slow Cooked Cider Ham to the rescue!. Just think of all the wonderful dishes you could make with the leftover ham. five Star Rating for this recipe *****

  48. Well where to begin! I would definitely cook a creamy rice pudding, chicken and lentil stew and oh my goodness I would definitely try this recipe for cider ham. Thank you for another opportunity to win such a wonderful slow cooker.

  49. I’d really like to make that ham!! My current slow cooker is on the small side and definitely would not accommodate a big enough ham for leftovers 🙂

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