A great glaze for a baked ham.
Ingredients
| 3 cm | Fresh ginger |
| 3 | Garlic cloves |
| 5 | Kaffir lime leaves |
| 1 | Green chilli, use more to suit taste |
| 2 | Limes, zested and juiced |
| 3 tsp | Five spice |
| 1 tsp | Salt |
| ½ cup | Palm sugar, grated, or brown sugar |
| 1 packet | Star anise, enough to stud ham (Main) |
| 1 bottle | Apple juice, or cider |
Directions
- Roughly chop ginger, garlic cloves, kaffir lime leaves and green chillies.
- Add the zest and juice of limes and blitz all to a smooth paste in a food processor.
- Remove to a bowl, add five spice powder, salt and grated palm sugar (or brown sugar) and mix.
- Stud the scored ham with whole star anise and rub on the glaze.
- Bake in a roasting dish in a shallow bath of fresh apple juice or cider and baste ham frequently as you go.
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Note:To prepare ham, remove the skin and score the fat on the diagonal to create diamond shapes, then brush with glaze and, as a general guide, bake in a 170C oven. Cook until the ham is a dark golden colour and