Christmas Food Recipes Enjoy On Christmas Day Part-1

    Christmas Food Recipes Enjoy On Christmas Day.

we are only moments away from Christmas I can smell it in the air I can feel it on my skin it's a common my friends and so to celebrate.

                                 christmas enjoy

I have my tough bye festive recipes that are coming your way in this beautiful countdown take it away my friends I need to introduce you to the best Christmas

ham you will ever make this is ham in Cola we're 

gonna start it off with a boneless gammon joint this is what we call it here in Ireland of

the UK we're gonna get straight in here is this a really simple Christmas ham I did

mention that already but stick with me because it is so ham goes straight in a pot we're now gonna pour in lots of Cola now if you're wondering

why we're adding the cola here it kind of caramelizes the exterior you get this wonderful sweet flavour and the interesting thing is that you know

Cola itself it's a weird sort of flavor I tend not to drink it but I do cook with it because it gives you that sweetness and to that

we're gonna pop the spice I've got a little bit of star anise here I'm gonna pop these in here and they they have this wonderful sort of exotic fragrance

that really adds a lovely spice and then we're going in there with a handful of cloves just sprinkle them in here we're also going in with about a tablespoon

of black peppercorns and just pop them in and around and to bring this all together and to impart even more flavor I've got one whole onion the flavor you'll

get from the onion is all you need you actually not gonna use the onion at all so you don't need to take the skin off slice it off like

that tuck them into bed alongside your Christmas ham lid on this is gonna cook for about an hour and a half to remember

it's 40 minutes per kilogram okay so this is gonna stick on here it's gonna cook away for all that time and I do have one that has been

prepared and cooked earlier but I need to wash my hands first okay now we need to talk about the glaze on this Christmas ham the one that has cooked

out and that has cooled completely is ready to be glazed so I'm gonna take this forward we're gonna grab up our pot and in this pot there's a lot

of liquids at this point now the liquid has done its job it's impart all the flavor so we're

gonna take this out and yeah any of that excess liquid I have a little bit of kitchen paper in my tray just to catch any of that extra liquid

this skin here this bit of fat needs to be removed so take up a sharp knife now the trick here is to keep as much of the fat

but remove all the skin once you've sliced it all off you get left with this which can now be discarded it's time to give this a little bit of

decoration so I like to do a nice little diamond section so do lines across this way and then lines across the other way now as I do this this

reminds me of the sort of work I used to do with my mom around Christmastime I always got

the job of putting the clothes in where all the little diamonds go on so if you grab up a handful of these cloves everywhere that there's a little

cross where the lines have been slitted basically stick in a clove I do take this part of my job very seriously and you do need to make sure you

have beautiful cloves all the way around your ham and at this point it's looking pretty good

so I'm gonna get rid of this tissue paper which soaked up all that liquid stick this forward and now this is ready for a fantastic glaze and for

our glaze we have a few ingredients so it's four tablespoons of honey going in here three tablespoons of brown sugar we're also gonna go a little bit of English