roast ham

Oven-baked pork leg

Roast ham is ham that has been cooked by roasting—baked in an oven, often glazed with honey, brown sugar, or mustard.

It's a centerpiece dish for holiday meals like Easter and Christmas: She served roast ham with scalloped potatoes.

The term distinguishes oven-prepared ham from boiled, smoked, or sliced deli varieties.

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brown sugar glaze · Easter · Sunday · Sunday dinner · carving · carving knife · sliced · smoked · baked · succulent · bone · leftovers · mustard · spiral · spiral cut · oven · platter · dinner

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cooking method

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Pork cured then simmered

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meat type

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Oven-cooked holiday fowl

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dietary permissibility

roast hamhalal meat

Islamically approved animal flesh

fish

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