Smoked Ham with Root Veggie Medley

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Glass plate with three slices of smoked ham and handful of chopped and roasted root vegetables

This recipe is a hearty and warming dish great for the colder months. It’s flexible because you can use the root vegetables that you have and prefer! You can get smoked ham and a wide variety of root vegetables in a SLO CSA share, including turnips, rutabaga, beets, carrots, onion, and a variety of radishes.

Prep: 20 minutes | Cook: 1 hour and 45 minutes

INGREDIENTS

For the roast:

  • 1-5 pound bone-in ham OR 2-2 1/2 pound bone-in ham roasts
  • 2 or 3 of each: purple top turnip, scarlet radish, black spanish radish, watermelon radish, rutabaga, gold beets, red beets, carrots, daikon radish, onion
  • 2-3 Tbsp olive oil
  • Salt & pepper

For the glaze:

  • 1/2 cup maple syrup
  • ¼ cup Dijon mustard
  • 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 2 tbsp melted butter
  • ½ tsp black pepper

DIRECTIONS

  1. Thaw ham in fridge 4-6 hours per lb or overnight.
  2. Preheat oven to 325℉
  3. Wash and cut veggies into 1 – 1 ½ chunks and toss with olive oil, salt and pepper.
  4. Spread veggies in an even layer on the bottom of a large roasting pan. (place the faster cooking veggies on top, such as onions, purple top turnips, watermelon radish and scarlet turnips)
  5. Pour about a cup of water or apple cider in the bottom of the roasting dish. Place the ham directly on top of the bed of veggies and loosely tent with foil.
  6. Whisk the glaze ingredients together and brush a layer on ham, saving about half the mixture for later.
  7. Roast ham(s) for 15 minutes per pound or until the final resting temperature is 140℉ at the thickest area next to the bone. Use a meat thermometer to check! (Take out of the oven at about about 130 to 135℉ since it will cook a bit more while resting.)
  8. About a half hour before cooked, remove foil and brush the rest of glaze on the ham.
  9. Rest for 15 minutes and enjoy!

Smoked bone-in ham cut in half and placed on a variety of chipped root vegetables in a roasting pan

Items Available from SLO:

You can get organic and local ingredients for this recipe with a SLO CSA share. We have pasture-raised smoked hams and a wide variety of root vegetables. (Produce availability varies by season.) Meat Share members can add veggies to their meat boxes and Veggie CSA members can add ham to their veggie boxes.