Elevate your Easter ham with this Twice Smoked Spiral Ham. This flavourful twist starts with a pre-cooked spiral ham, enhanced with a honey garlic BBQ rub and smoked a second time for rich, smoky depth. Finished with a sweet pineapple-maple glaze, it’s an easy yet impressive dish that’ll have your guests coming back for more. Perfect for any festive gathering!

Smoked Spiral Ham

Spiral hams are cut from the leg of the pig and are already pre-cooked and smoked.

They are called spiral hams because of the way they are cut. Normally a spring-loaded slicing blade cuts around the ham and around the bone making spiral incisions.  This method makes for even slices and a beautiful presentation.

You can find spiral cut hams in most grocery stores. If you decide you want to use a regular ham you can do that as well and this recipe will still work!

I would recommend scoring the ham first before applying the mustard binder and the rub so everything sticks to it well. 

The packaging of the ham will usually tell you what kind of wood it was smoked with and what temperature you need to warm the ham to, which is 140-145°F.

The pre-smoked hams are usually lacking in the flavor department, so for this recipe, we are going to smoke the ham a second time and give it a boost of flavor.

Spiral hams usually come with a glaze packet which is just a mixture of brown sugar, honey, and other ingredients.

You can certainly use the packet it comes with, but I tend to find homemade is always best, and I have a simple recipe that makes the perfect sweet ham glaze. 

This recipe comes from our friends over at Smoked BBQ Source, a fantastic resource with tons of smoked BBQ recipes.

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