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Make this Easy Slow Cooker Ham Recipe for your next holiday meal if you love a juicy ham with an amazing pineapple juice glaze made with simple ingredients.
You won’t even need a glaze packet to make this easy crock pot ham recipe. The glaze ingredients are super simple, making such a delicious ham with only a few minutes of prep time.
Easter dinner or other special occasions are great times to make this crockpot ham recipe for the whole family and enjoy a delicious yet easy dinner and plenty of leftovers.
It is a great way to feed a crowd but still with an easy recipe for a whole ham. This slow cooker recipe is the best way to make a boneless ham and free up oven space for your favorite side dishes.
Ingredients for Easy Slow Cooker Ham Recipe:
- Protein: you will need to have a boneless fully cooked ham
- Pineapple: grab a can of crushed pineapple from the grocery store
- Sugar: using brown sugar will sweeten this ham recipe and add flavor from the molasses in the brown sugar
- Seasoning: use ground cloves to balance the sweetness of this slow cooker recipe
How to make Easy Slow Cooker Ham Recipe:
Place the ham in the slow cooker.
Pour the crushed pineapple, brown sugar, and ground cloves over the ham.
Cover and cook on low heat for 5 hours, or on high heat for 3 hours, until heated through and tender.
How to store leftovers of this delicious recipe:
Fridge: In an airtight container place the leftover tender ham for an easy lunch the next day or simple dinner for up to 5 days.
Tips and tricks for making the best ham for holiday dinner:
Kind of ham to use:
For this recipe, I like to use a boneless ham in the slow cooker. Generally, if you use a spiral-cut ham in the slow cooker, the cooking time will be extended by quite a bit as it takes longer to cook the spiral ham.
Variations for cooking ham:
If you don’t love the flavor of pineapple you could always switch out the pineapple juice and pair the brown sugar ham with some apple juice or maple syrup.
To still get a little bit of the pineapple flavor you could also carefully pine some pineapple slices to the ham in the slow cooker. It is the perfect way to get a bit of the flavor of pineapple that pairs so well with this delicious brown sugar glaze.
What to serve with a juicy and flavorful ham:
- Rolls
- Biscuits
- Green bean casserole
- Side salad
- Mashed potatoes
- Baked macaroni and cheese
More slow cooker recipes:
- Slow Cooker Chicken Burrito Bowls
- Slow Cooker Enchilada Quinoa
- Slow Cooker Greek Chicken
- Juicy Slow Cooker Turkey with Mashed Potatoes
Easy Slow Cooker Ham Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2-5 lb boneless fully cooked ham
- 10 oz can crushed pineapple
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- ½ tsp ground cloves
Instructions
- Remove the packaging from the ham and score the top with diagonal slices.
- Place the ham in the slow cooker.
- Pour the crushed pineapple, brown sugar, and ground cloves over the ham.
- Cover and cook on low for 5 hours, or on high for 3 hours, until heated through and tender.
Nutrition
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