Slow Cooker Pineapple Brown Sugar Ham
With just 3 ingredients, this Slow Cooker Pineapple Brown Sugar Ham is an easy holiday dinner main course! Stir together a pineapple brown sugar glaze using pineapple preserves. It's a simple recipe for how to cook ham in a Crockpot with pineapple and brown sugar.
Servings: 20 3 ounce servings
Calories: 3ounces
Ingredients
- 6 to 8 pound butt portion ham half spiral slice ham half or shank portion ham
- ½ cup light or dark brown sugar divided
- ½ cup pineapple preserves or jam divided
Instructions
- Unwrap the ham. Rub about ¼ cup of the brown sugar over the entire surface of the ham. Spread 2 tablespoons of the pineapple preserves over the flat side (cut side) of the ham.
- Place the ham, flat side down in the slow cooker insert. I like to place it on a small rack to lift it up off the insert. If you don’t have one, press together aluminum foil to make circle and place the ham on it.
- Spoon all but 2 tablespoons of the remaining pineapple preserves over the top of ham.
- Put the lid on the ham and cook on LOW for 6 hours or HIGH for 3 to 4 hours.
- The last 30 minutes of cooking, remove the lid and rub the remaining brown sugar on top of the ham. Spoon the remaining pineapple preserves over the brown sugar. Replace the lid and continue cooking.
- An instant read thermometer should read at least 145 degrees F. Much more than 160 degrees and the ham will start to dry out.
Notes
- Tip: Be sure to check for a small plastic covering that sometimes covers the marrow if the bone is exposed.
- Spiral Sliced Ham Tips: Reduce the amount of cooking time by at least an hour. It takes less time to cook.
- Shank portion ham halves take a little longer to cook because of the large bone and have less meat on them than the butt portion ham half.
- Remember, you are basically just slowly heating up the ham. Unless the label states that it is a fresh ham or uncooked ham, most ham halves are already fully cooked.
