The perfect gammon

Ingredients

  • 1 x 20 g sage leaves
  • 8 cloves cloves
  • 2 cinnamon quills
  • 4 star anise
  • 4 Tbsp wholegrain mustard
  • 3 tbsp soy sauce
  • 7 tbsp maple syrup
  • 50 g brown sugar
  • 60 ml butter
  • 1/2 vanilla pod
  • figs
  • 8 Small red apples
  • 3 kg ready to cook gammon
  • 1 litre ginger beer
  • 6 cloves
  • A few peppercorns
  • 12 baby onions
  • 6 baby carrots, halved
  • 1 bulbs fennel

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Cooking Instructions

  1. Arrange the onions, carrots, fennel ,ginger beer cloves and peppercons in a large saucepan.
  2. Place the gammon on top of the vegetables.
  3. Sprinkle with peppercorns and cloves.
  4. Pour the gingerbeer over the gammon and simmer.
  5. Poach for 30min per kg, this reduces roasting time.
  6. Remove from the saucepan and leave to cool.
  7. To remove the skin, carefully slice from one side to the other.
  8. Use small, quick cutting strokes to help peel the skin up and away from the fat.
  9. Score the gammon in a diamond pattern with the tip of a sharp knife.
  10. Add maple syrup, soya sauce, mustard, cloves, star anise, sage into a small saucepan.
  11. Simmer for 10 – 15 minutes.
  12. Brush liberally onto the scored gammon.
  13. Roast for 20 – 30 minutes at 200°C.
  14. Baste with glaze throughout roasting  until golden and sticky.
  15. Slice apples in half leaving some whole.
  16. Arrange in a pan with split figs.
  17. Slice and tear butter over the fruit.
  18. Split the vanilla pod and scrape seeds over the fruit.
  19. Sprinkle with brown sugar and squeeze half a lemon.
  20. Roast along with the gammon until sticky and sweet.