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Gluten Free Christmas Ham
05 Dec 2010 2 Comments
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Christmas Ham
For a mouth-watering main meal why not try this sumptuous Christmas ham with all the trimmings? It will most certainly be enjoyed by all. The wonderful thing about this dish is that it’s so super easy to prepare and looks stunning when you serve it on a wide white platter dish accompanied by seasonal apple cider vinegar roasted vegetables. Decorate with a Christmassy tartan ribbon bound around fresh rosemary for a visually elegant feast.
Gluten Free Glazed Christmas Ham with Rosemary
Serves 8
What you’ll need:
- 1 large leg of ham on the bone
- 6 cloves garlic unpeeled
- 1 packet whole cloves
- Filtered water for baking
- 1 TBS peppercorns
- Sea Salt to taste
- Rosemary for decoration
Glaze
- 1 tsp stevia powder or to taste
- ½ cup Apple Cider Vinegar
- ½ tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 6 TBS sugar-free seeded mustard
- 4 tablespoons ripe fresh apricots or peaches smashed (optional)
Method:
Preheat Oven to 160 Celsius
Remove the skin from the leg of ham place your finger between the rind and the fat, and move back and forth while gently removing the skin with your other hand
Score the ham in a criss-cross diamond pattern with a knife just cutting into the fat 2cm apart
Place the cloves into the diamond points in the ham and sprinkle with peppercorns, and sea salt
Now it’s time to make the glaze, place apricots, mustard, ACV, cinnamon and stevia into a small saucepan and whisk over a high heat, bringing it to the boil. Cook for 5 minutes to reduce the glaze. The consistency should be like syrup. Remove from heat
Place the ham on a roasting dish grate with 1 inch of water beneath it in the pan and spoon the glaze over the top of the ham
Place in the oven and bake for 2 ½ hours basting every half an hour
After 1 ½ hours place whole unpeeled garlic into baking dish
Remove when golden brown let sit and cool then decorate with fresh rosemary
Merry Christmas!
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Planning Your Gluten Free Christmas Menu
05 Dec 2010 3 Comments
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It's Party Time!
Can you believe it?? With less than one month to go, Christmas is just around the corner. And this year there’s no need to miss out on delicious Christmas fayre, you can eat, drink and be merry this festive season tucking into tasty treats that even Aunt Millie will enjoy sinking her brand new teeth into. With a few basic modifications to the traditional Christmas menu it’s easy to come up with delightful Christmas recipes for everyone to savour. Discovering new ways to use fresh and unadulterated ingredients can be fun and in no time you can be making your own health-promoting seasonal dishes that you’ll be proud to bring to the festive table. If you’re cooking for others, here are a few quick tips to remember when creating a supercharged Christmas lunch.
- About a week before Christmas plan your menu and check recipes ensuring that ingredients are suitable for guests. If you’re using any store bought ingredients check the labels to ensure there are no hidden ingredients. Sometimes the words; all natural, added spices, natural colourings and flavorings and maltodextrin are included on the labels and these ingredients can be a disaster for many people who cannot tolerate gluten, additives and preservatives.
- To get the show on the road with cracker and dip options, why not experiment by making buckwheat and herb crackers and teaming them with dairy free pesto, tahini or guacamole? You can also slow bake crunchy sea salt and apple cider vinegar almonds a few days earlier and have them sitting around as tempters, which will be gobbled up in no time whilst guests are getting into the Christmas spirit and letting their hair down.
- If you’re planning on cooking a traditional turkey, why not bake it with the stuffing on the outside? Or better still flavour-up the turkey by making up your own stuffing by combining crushed nuts or brown rice or quinoa with celery, onion, garlic, olive oil, rosemary, thyme, sage, an egg yolk, chicken stock, sea salt and freshly cracked pepper.
- If you’ve decided to ham-it-up this Christmas, just bear in mind that when purchasing store bought ham glazes it’s a good idea to check the label before you buy, as many packaged ham glazes contain chemical additives and preservatives as well as gluten. There’s a great Christmas Ham recipe that I roll out every year, it’s delicious, tasty and will knock your guests out with its intense, exotic flavour and tenderness. Try it, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
- When it comes to dessert ideas, pre-baking a lemon flan or pumpkin pie and then serving it with dairy free ice cream, or mock or cashew nut cream is a good option for people wanting to go the extra mile and indulge in a delicious dessert.
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