Crockpot Ham Recipe
Ham in the slow cooker — ham and beans, brown sugar slow cooker ham, navy beans, honey spiral ham, ham vegetable soup — for holidays and the leftovers after.
★ lunch
lunchIngredients
- 16 oz Great northern dry beans
- Water
- 4 cup Chicken broth
- Cayenne
- Nutmeg
- Ham
- Galic Powder
- Garlic Salt
- Yellow Onion
- Brown Sugar
Instructions
- 1The night before - make sure your dry beans do not have any rocks in them and rinse. Soak overnight in a bowl of water or chicken broth. Enough liquid to cover about 1/2” above the beans!
- 2Turn crockpot on low 8 hours high 4-5 hours. Or on the stove low but all day!
- 3Add beans and liquid to the pot. Cover with water over the top of the beans. They will absorb more liquid as they cook.
- 4Add in onion or minced onion, all seasonings to taste. I like to add them all until my ancestors say quit then come back in a few hours for a taste test. Add more if needed!
- 5Add in your diced ham or leftover holiday ham!
- 6Walk away!
- 7Check the liquid levels every few hours. If it starts getting low just add more :)
- 8Once beans are tender to your liking - Enjoy! I like to add ketchup to my beans. Don’t knock it :)
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A ham is one of the few cuts that gets better with time and low heat, and it feeds a crowd without you standing over the stove. The bone is half the point — it turns a pot of dry beans into supper.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when the oven is full on a holiday, or the week after, when there's still a bowl of diced ham in the fridge that needs to become something.
Every recipe here starts with ham and ends with dinner: Crockpot Ham and Beans with great northern beans, brown sugar Slow Cooker Ham, Crock Pot Ham and Navy Beans, a honey and brown sugar Crockpot Ham, and Crockpot Ham Vegetable Soup built on the bone.
Quick Tips
- 1
Soak the beans overnight
Cover dry great northern or navy beans with water by 2 inches and let them sit 8 hours. They cook evenly and won't stay chalky in the middle.
- 2
Save the bone
Drop the spiral ham bone in with the beans or soup and let it go 6 to 8 hours on low. It gives you salt, smoke, and body you can't get from broth alone.
- 3
Salt at the end
Ham and bouillon are already salty, so wait until the last 30 minutes to taste and season. Beans can also stay firm if salted too early.
- 4
Glaze low and slow
Pat brown sugar and honey over the ham, cover, and cook on low 4 to 5 hours, spooning the juices back over it once or twice.
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