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    Home » Recipes » Main Dishes » Simple Suppers: Pear Marmalade Glazed Ham Steaks

    LAST UPDATED: August 16, 2018 • FIRST PUBLISHED: February 19, 2013 By Toni Dash

    Simple Suppers: Pear Marmalade Glazed Ham Steaks

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    Pear Marmalade Glazed Ham Steaks

    Do you ever find yourself in a menu rut? Or feeling on a busy day that you want to make a healthy meal but don’t have the energy to pull it all together? Me too.

    During the week I want to prepare easy, nutritious meals that have great flavor but I usually don’t plan very far in advance. Though I grocery shop almost daily (fortunately at a neighborhood market that is stocked with organic, local produce, excellent ‘clean’ meat and everything else we would need),  we also have a freezer stocked with local meat from our CSA farm, seasonal produce I’ve frozen in season, frozen gluten-free foods and other odds and ends. On a day last week I found myself looking into the face of an overly burdened day of deliverables and decided I really needed to make something from what we had on hand.

    Pear Marmalade Glazed Ham Steaks

    In the freezer I found two Ham Steaks we’d purchased from our neighborhood farm. A ham steak is a thick cut of ham usually at least ½ inch thick, round, with or without a bone. I wasn’t sure how to prepare it but imagined it could not be that hard. With a bit of research I realized it is one of the more simple dishes to make, with many options from pan frying, to grilling or baking. I created a Pear-Marmalade Glaze with the intent to bake the ham steaks. They emerged tender, moist, sweetly flavored in perfect contrast to their naturally salty disposition. I served them with some steamed Haricot Vert and called it a day. My family loved it and was none the wiser that it was not a meal planned with deliberate intent!

    Ham tends to be a special occasion dish. I do not think to make one outside a holiday and part of that is due to the quantity. A ham steak is a perfect to add to meal rotations for ease and flavor. An important thing I learned while developing my recipe is that ham steak can be raw (as in this recipe), smoked, cured, or pre-cooked. It’s important to know which you are preparing. This recipe is for raw ham steaks however should you have one that is precooked you can follow the same preparation but only cook it for 20-25 minutes, enough to heat it through and absorb the glaze but not dry out.

    Ham Steak

    Pear Marmalade Glazed Ham Steaks

    Simple Suppers: Pear-Marmalade Glazed Ham Steaks

    Ham steak offers a wonderful, quick alternative to cooking an entire ham. Glazed with a pear-marmalade topped off with some Chinese Five Spice, and no one will know you whipped it up in a bit over an hour.
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    Course: Main Course
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 15 minutes
    Cook Time: 1 hour
    Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
    Servings: 6 servings
    Calories: 153kcal
    Author: Toni Dash
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    Ingredients

    • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
    • 2 tablespoons boiling water
    • Juice of one Blood Orange
    • 1 red D’Anjou Pear , soft and ripe; peeled, seeded and cut into small pieces
    • ¼ cup Marmalade
    • 1/8 teaspoon Chinese Five Spice
    • 2 Ham Steaks (approximately 2 pounds total), raw

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
    • Combine the cornstarch and boiling water in a small bowl. Whisk to fully combine.
    • In a small sauce pan over medium-high heat, combine the blood orange juice, pear, marmalade, Chinese five spice to the cornstarch mixture. Whisk to combine and mash the pear with the back of a wooden spoon or potato masher until it is only very small pieces and liquid. Bring mixture to a low boil.
    • Add cornstarch-water mixture; whisk to combine. Allow to return to a low boil and simmer until it begins to thicken (less than 5 minutes). It will continue to thicken during baking.
    • In a baking pan large enough to fit both steaks not overlapping (I used a 15-inch by 10-inch pan), pour ¾’s of the glaze into the pan. Add the ham steak allowing them to become covered on the bottom side with the glaze; turn them over allowing the glaze-free side to face the glaze.
    • Bake for 30 minutes. Baste with the remaining glaze and any pan juices from cooking. Return to oven and bake another 25-30 minutes. Check to ensure they are not drying out and baste from pan juices and pan glaze if needed.
    • Remove from oven. Serve hot.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 153kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 33mg | Sodium: 960mg | Potassium: 290mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin C: 26.9mg | Calcium: 9mg | Iron: 0.9mg
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    Ham Steaks

    I find some very inspired recipes in the Udi’s Gluten Free Community where I am a Community Leader. I opened a conversation there hoping to find more quick dishes like this that are healthy without compromising flavor. Do you have some favorites you whip up when time is at a premium? We’d love to hear about them. Please jump in the conversation below and add any personal favorites you make in a pinch!

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    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    TONI DASH
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    Toni Dash, is a Certified Nutrition Coach and the writer/blogger, photographer, recipe developer and creator of Boulder Locavore®. She has been developing easy to make, well-tested recipes since 2010. Her seasonal recipes bring excitement to the dining table for both gluten-free and gluten diners. Toni has been featured in numerous publications and on culinary websites for her creative, delicious recipes and travel features. For more details, check out her About page.

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    1. Nancy says

      July 28, 2018 at 10:40 am

      5 stars
      Ham steaks are so easy!

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