An easy sweet brown sugar orange glaze for your next bone-in ham recipe that takes 5 minutes to make.
Holiday season and holiday feast seem to go hand in hand (my favorite time to cook) and a brown sugar ham glaze is a great addition to your holiday table.
This glaze will last up to a week in the fridge making it a great make-ahead recipe. The remaining glaze can be used on any leftover ham days later.
Christmas and Easter are synonomous for roast meat mains at our house and my ham recipes need a glaze that can stand up to the celebration!
3 Reasons To Love This Brown Sugar Orange Glaze
- EASY - Very eay to make using simple ingredients, stores and reheats well.
- QUICK - It takes 5 minutes!
- DELICIOUS - It's the eat with a spoon type of delicious and drizzle over everything sauce.
This glaze is really simple to make and the only tip I can give you is to make it!
Brown Sugar Orange Ham Glaze
I made this sticky glaze for my Cripsy Whole Duck Roast Recipe and it all started with a jar of peach jam staring back at me, the rest as they say is history.
A delicious sticky orange jam glaze was born!
You can use this glaze for any holiday ham, a simple family lunch, Easter, Christmas or any holiday meal that needs a little caramalized brown sugar coating.
It's the best ham glaze because of the sweet and sticky texture and sweet glazes tend to go really well with the saltiness of the ham.
Ingredients
The full recipe ingredient list is in the recipe card below.
- Smooth Peach Jam
- Honey - Raw honey is my first choice but regular honey works or swop it for maple syrup 1:1 ratio.
- Navel Oranges (+zest and peels) - Freshly squeezed is best but you can use any orange juice just check the sugar or it will end up too sweet!
- Muscovado sugar - light or dark brown sugar, pack it into the cup
- Lemon juice - Just a touch
- Aniseed - works well in this galze
- Chili flakes - a small pinch works wonders!
How To Make Brown Sugar Orange Jam Glaze
- Wash the oranges and zest them all. Use a vegetable peeler to slice off a few thin orange slices.
- In a small to medium size saucepan add all the ingredients including the orange zest and orange peels (about 4-5 peels)
- Mix everything together.
- Bring the glaze ingredients to a boil over high heat and then immediately lower to medium heat and cook for 5 minutes.
- Use immediately or wait for it to cool completely before storing.
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Recipe Notes
- Prefebaly don't use a small saucepan go for something more on the medium size which gives the glaze room to boil. PS: I don't like small spaces 🙂
- Lower the heat to medium once it boils don't forget about it!
- Use this glaze on any ham recipe irrespective of size just double the quantity for more roasts.
How Long Should A Glaze Simmer?
Bring to a boil for the ingredients to mesh together and then lower the heat to a simmer. Let it low boil or low simmer for 5 to 10 minutes, remove from the heat. It will thicken as it stands.
How To Make Glaze Thinner
If you are in the middle of a making a roast recipe and the glaze has thickened there are a few ways to make it thinner:
- Add a litte liquid, be it water, stock, juice, any liquid.
- Make a slurry a teaspoon of Maizena or flour to a teaspoon of liquid. Stir and pour it into the glaze but then the glaze would have to be on the stove reheating as you stir it in. The whole thing takes literally under 5 minutes!
- And the last way (my favorite) is to scoop the drippings out of the roasting pan into the glaze, stir and continue with the recipe. Its going to go on the roast anyway!
Can I Use Orange Marmalade In This Recipe?
Yes you can make an orange marmalade ham glaze! You can use any other jam.
How to Serve Brown Sugar Orange Glaze
This sticky brown sugar and orange glaze is not only for bone-in or boneless ham recipes use it on chicken roast, salmon dinner, lamb chops or pork tenderloin or this orange duck recipe.
Sticky glaze with savory ham at the dinner table makes for the perfect centerpiece!
Serve This Glaze With:
Variations
- Spices: Add a teaspoon ground allspice, teaspoon ground ginger or cinnamon.
- Sugar: Swop the muscovado sugar for light brown sugar (packed as in pack the sugar into the measuring cup tight).
- Tang: Add a spicy dijon mustard and adding the dried chili flakes is your call.
Storage
Pour it into a container and keep it the fridge. Once cool, place the lid on because it needs to be in an airtight container. It will last for a week in the fridge.
Freeze: 3 months in a freezer container.
ReUse: Once it has thawed you can re-use it without reheating. If you're making a roasted ham, simply pour it over the top or baste!
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Orange Glaze With Brown Sugar (Easy Ham Syrup Recipe)
Equipment
- Saucepan
- Wooden spoon
Ingredients
- 1 cup smooth peach jam
- ¼ cup muscovado sugar
- 2 zest and juice from 2 large oranges
- 3 orange peels thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 aniseed
- ⅛th teaspoon pinch of chili flakes
Instructions
- Wash the oranges and zest them all. Use a vegetable peeler to slice off a few thin orange slices.
- In a small to medium size saucepan add all the ingredients including the orange zest and orange peels (about 4-5 peels)
- Mix everything together.
- Bring the glaze ingredients to a boil over high heat and then immediately lower to medium heat and cook for 5 minutes. Use to pour over ham or basting on duck.
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