Questioning what to do with the leftover ham – apart from make ham sandwiches but once more? Right here’s over 30 recipes worthy of your treasured glazed ham!
TOP TIP: Deal with it like bacon, and don’t neglect the bone!
It’s un-Australian to make a Glazed Ham that’s simply large enough to serve the precise quantity you’re catering for. Have leftover ham is virtually a Christmas ritual in itself.
On Day 1, it’s all thrilling to make use of the leftover ham to make lunch rolls.
Day 2, it’s already beginning to lose its attraction.
By Day 3, you begin wanting up how lengthy the leftover ham will hold for, and how you can freeze it. (Reply right here)
Day 4, you resolve you’ll have one final hurrah earlier than you freeze it.
Oh wait, I imagine that’s right now??! ? So I’m JUST in time!
So right here you go – 30+ recipes to make utilizing your leftover ham. (And PS, it is going to be good for at the very least a 7 – 9 days within the fridge in case you retailer it accurately!)
What to do with Leftover Ham – 30+ recipes
1. RecipeTin Picks
Listed here are my private picks for utilizing the dear leftover ham:
- Eggs Benedict – as a result of it’s worthy;
- Instead of bacon on this Strata Cake – as a result of it’s one thing totally different, easy to make, tastes like quiche and everyone loves it;
- Ham & Cheese French Toast Roll Ups – as a result of it’s FUN! (And loopy scrumptious);
- Pea and Ham Soup – as a result of it’s so good that you simply look past that extremely unflattering color;
- Fried rice – since you don’t want a lot, and it’s good for utilizing scraps. Make a meal out of it – add it to Hen Fried Rice;
- Mini quiche – one other one good for scraps, and I really like telling folks it’s made with Christmas ham; and
- Macaroni Salad – I simply add an excellent couple of handfuls of chopped ham into the Macaroni Salad for additional pops of tasty goodness.
2. Leftover Ham recipes
Precise recipes calling for ham! I’ve greater than I realised – I even needed to break it down into teams!
Brunch / brekki sort issues
- Eggs Benedict – as famous above, WORTHY!
- Crustless Ham and Cheese Quiche – smells like Quiche Lorraine because it cooks, however a complete lot simpler to make! And rather a lot much less energy too ?;
- Ham Egg & Cheese Pockets – seize and go!
- Ham and Cheese Puffs – OK, that is extra of an app, however I WANT to eat it for breakfast!
- No Washing Up Scorching Ham and Cheese Bread Bowls – emphasis on the phrases NO WASHING UP!
- Monte Cristo (French Toast Ham Cheese Sandwich) – actually, the BEST ham and cheese sandwich on this planet…
- Ham and Cheese French Toast Roll Ups – cute to have a look at and divine to eat!
Meals utilizing ham
- Ham, Potato & Corn Chowder – a creamy chowder loves salty little pops of ham;
- Pizza – Hawaiian, BBQ Meat Lovers, Capricciosa or after all, make your individual up!
- Hen Cordon Bleu – the very best stuffed rooster ever!
- Fried rice – my base recipe requires bacon, however truly, many Chinese language eating places use ham! Make a meal out of it – attempt Hen Fried Rice;
- Muffletta! (Italian Christmas Leftovers Bread Bowl) – something goes right here. However most particularly HAM!
- Cheese and Ham Pancakes – Mashed potatoes truffles studded with ham, crispy on the surface and fluffy on the within. YES!
4. Ham bone recipes
- Pea and Ham Soup – dump all of it right into a sluggish cooker, then come house to probably the most unbelievable scent wafting out of your kitchen. Little or no effort, large returns!
- Subsequent Stage Ham Bone Soup with Beans – it sounds and appears rustic, however the flavour is off the charts distinctive!
- Chinese language Ham Bone Rice Soup – Congee (3 components!!) – that is truly a Chinese language dish, not simply one thing I made up. It’s unbelievably good, and sure it actually does solely name for 3 components.
5. Something calling for bacon
Do you know you need to use ham in nearly any recipe calling for bacon? It provides the identical salty pops, and you may even fry it up till golden, similar to bacon!
Sprinkle it onto a Hen Salad rather than bacon. Or prepare dinner it such as you would bacon to kind a savoury base for issues like Minestrone Soup or Southern Baked Beans.
Click on right here to see all recipes utilizing bacon. Listed here are some options – good number of recipes right here!
PRO TIP: The one time you can not substitute ham for bacon is the place the bacon is blended in uncooked kind into one thing, reminiscent of Doner Kebab meat or Sausage Rolls. Want the bacon fats.
6. Add in!
There are such a lot of choices for issues you possibly can add ham into, whether or not it’s so as to add protein, tasty little salty pops or simply usually to make it even tastier! Listed here are some concepts:
Lunches & meals
Breakfast & brunch
Hope that offers your leftover ham a brand new lease on life! Benefit from it – for many of us, it’s one other 12 months earlier than we make one other! – Nagi x
Lifetime of Dozer
Dozer wish to put one other suggestion on the listing for what to do along with your leftover ham: