Are you looking for something different to do with your traditional ham for dinner? Give this Bacon-Wrapped Pineapple Brown Sugar Oven-Baked Ham a try! It’s so easy and so flavorful… And how can you go wrong with extra bacon?
Bacon-Wrapped Pineapple Brown Sugar Oven-Baked Ham
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I know, I know… the name is a mouthful… But so is this ham! That extra flavor from the bacon… the sweet glaze from the pineapple and brown sugar… Oh, you are going to love this ham! Plus, it’s super easy to make – put on the glaze at the start of cooking and again about halfway through cooking, don’t worry about babysitting and basting every 10 or 15 minutes!
I was at our local meat market to get a ham, and their 10-pound boxes of bacon were on sale. I love a good sale on good bacon, so I bought a box. As I was driving home, I thought, I really need to wrap up this ham in some of that bacon! And what a good idea that was…
Really, can you ever go wrong with bacon-wrapped anything?!?
Then I added the “classic ham flavors” of pineapple and brown sugar. (Who says pineapple and ham don’t go together on pizza? They go together here just fine!) And if you use the pineapple juice to make the brown sugar glaze, you get a super-sweet glaze that’s the perfect consistency to drizzle all over the ham. It even gets caught in the center of your pineapple rings. So much yumminess!
How Do You Cook a Ham in the Oven?
There are two big tips for cooking a ham in the oven, whether you’re using this recipe or a different one.
**PRO TIP #1** – Line your baking pan with heavy-duty aluminum foil before you put the ham in. Some of that delicious brown sugar glaze will drip off the ham and onto your baking pan. Where it will burn. Aluminum foil makes clean up much easier, with much less cursing. (Well, it did for me, anyway.)
**PRO TIP #2** – Use a meat thermometer to know when your ham is done. With a pre-cooked ham (like the one I used), you only need to heat your ham to 140 degrees F in the center. Use a probe-style meat thermometer in the center of your ham to know when it’s warmed through. (If your ham isn’t fully cooked, you’ll want to follow these guidelines.) One of the only ways to “mess up” a ham is to overcook it – it gets dried out and chewy. No one likes ham jerky!
How Long Do You Cook a Precooked Ham?
That all depends on how big it is! You can cook your precooked ham in the oven between 300-350 degrees F. You want your precooked ham to be heated to at least 140 degrees F before you serve it. At 300 degrees, a 10-pound boneless ham will take 3-3.5 hours to come up to 140 degrees F.
So what are you waiting for? Go, wrap a ham in bacon! You won’t regret it, I promise!
Enjoy!
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Bacon-Wrapped Pineapple Brown Sugar Oven-Baked Ham
Ingredients
- 8-10 pound boneless ham
- 1 pound bacon
- 1 20- ounce can pineapple slices juice reserved
- 1/2 cup brown sugar divided
Instructions
- Line a 9x13" baking pan with heavy-duty aluminum foil.
- Place ham in baking pan.
- Lay bacon over the top of the ham.
- Place pineapple rings on top of the bacon. Secure pineapple and bacon with toothpicks.
- Mix 1/4 cup brown sugar with 2 Tablespoons reserved pineapple juice. Pour sauce over ham.
- Loosely cover ham with aluminum foil. Bake in a 350 degree F oven for 1 hour.
- After 1 hour, remove ham from oven. Mix the remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar with an additional 2 Tablespoons of reserved pineapple juice. Pour the sauce over the ham.
- Insert a probe-style meat thermometer into the center of the ham.
- Cover ham loosely with aluminum foil and return to oven. Bake at 350 degrees until the ham reaches 140 degrees F or higher.
Thank you so much for your recipe! I put my own twist on it with cane sugar and a little mango vodka (just for taste ;))!
Sounds delicious!