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Honey Ginger Gammon

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Course: Main Course
Servings: 6

Equipment

  • 1 deep dish casserole
  • 1 baking sheet
  • 1 small saucepan

Ingredients

Gammon

  • 1.5-2 kg gammon boneless smoked or raw
  • 1 litre old school ginger beer
  • 1 litre water
  • 3 cloves garlic lightly crushed
  • 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
  • 2 sprigs fresh thyme

Honey Ginger Sauce

  • cup honey
  • 80 grams brown sugar
  • 2 ½ tbsps fresh ginger finely diced
  • 2 tbsps apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • ¼ tsp white pepper
  • 1-2 cups reserved juices/ginger beer stock/water or more if needed
  • 2 tbsp cornstarch or corn flour or mezina
  • salt to taste optional

Instructions

Gammon

  • Place the gammon joint in a large Dutch oven with ginger beer, water, garlic, rosemary and thyme. Bring to boil and cover, simmer for 2-3 hours, topping up the liquid with water as needed.
  • Once the gammon has about an hour left, start preparing the vegetables. Root vegetables take a bit longer and are cut into similar sizes, coated with some oil and salt. Popped onto a baking tray and baked in a preheated oven for 40-50 minutes at 220℃.
  • Remove the gammon and reserve 2 cups worth of broth. Once the gammon has slightly cooled down, remove the net using a scissor. Using a sharp knife, you'll remove the layer of skin that's on top of the gammon. Use a sharp knife to score the fat. Place the scored gammon in the same Dutch oven that was used earlier. Note: make sure to only remove the skin, keeping the layer of fat attached to the gammon.
  • In a small saucepan, combine the honey, brown sugar, fresh ginger, apple cider vinegar, soy sauce and white pepper together - do not add the water/any additional liquid just yet. Brush the surface of the gammon with the mixture and pop it under the broiler for 5 minutes. Add another layer of the honey-ginger mixture and repeat until you've reached your desired doneness.

Honey Ginger Sauce

  • To the remaining mixture left in the saucepan, add any of the gammon's juices that were released during the broiler process. Add 1 cup of the ginger beer stock you had reserved and bring to a simmer.
  • In a small bowl mix corn starch and cold water together until you have a slurry. Add the slurry to the honey-ginger sauce and simmer lightly until thickened. Note: feel free to add more ginger beer stock if the mixture is too thick or more of the corn starch .
  • Surround the gammon with roast vegetables, slice and serve with the honey ginger sauce. Enjoy!

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