Cracklin'-Fresh Picnic Ham with Apple-Cranberry-Pomegranate Salsa

Name: Cracklin'-Fresh Picnic Ham with Apple-Cranberry-Pomegranate Salsa
Prep time: 14 h 20 min
Cook time: 14 h 20 min
Total time: 14 h 20 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 10 servings Apple-Cranberry-Pomegranate Salsa; 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper; 118 milliliters kosher salt; 5 kilograms bone-in, skin-on fresh pork picnic shoulder (picnic ham); 1 box Clean cutter or one-sided razor blade

The recipe Cracklin'-Fresh Picnic Ham with Apple-Cranberry-Pomegranate Salsa could satisfy your Mexican craving in around 14 hours and 20 minutes. For $2.08 per serving, you get a main course that serves 10. One serving contains 488 calories, 64g of protein, and 23g of fat. Head to the store and pick up one-sided razor blade, apple-cranberry-pomegranate salsa, skin-on pork picnic shoulder, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the kosher salt you could follow this main course with the Low Fat Crumbs Cake (Kosher-Dairy) as a dessert.

Instructions

Make 1/4-inch-deep cuts 1/4 inch apart in skin of ham with a clean box cutter. (The sharp blades cut through the skin with ease and make straight edges.) Stir together salt and pepper; rub over ham, working into cuts in skin.

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Salt And Pepper

Ham

Dry Seasoning Rub

Place ham in a very large bowl, and cover with plastic wrap. Chill 2 days.

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Wrap

Ham

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Plastic Wrap

Bowl

Remove ham from bowl.

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Ham

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Bowl

Brush salt from ham, and discard.

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Salt

Ham

Place ham, fat side up, on a wire rack in a jelly-roll pan, and chill, uncovered, 8 to 10 hours to air-dry.

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Jelly

Roll

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Wire Rack

Frying Pan

Let ham stand at room temperature 1 hour.

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Ham

Preheat oven to 42

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Oven

Bake ham on lower oven rack 45 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 325, and bake 2 hours and 30 minutes. Increase oven temperature to 425, and bake 30 to 35 minutes or until skin is crisp and a meat thermometer inserted into thickest portion registers 17

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Let stand 30 minutes before slicing.

Serve with salsa.

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Salsa

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Servings:

10servings

Apple-Cranberry-Pomegranate Salsa 2teaspoons

freshly ground black pepper 118milliliters

kosher salt 5kilograms

bone-in, skin-on fresh pork picnic shoulder (picnic ham)1box

Clean cutter or one-sided razor blade

Recommended wine: Pinot Noir, Riesling, Sparkling Rose

Pinot Noir, Riesling, and Sparkling rosé are great choices for Mexican. Acidic white wines like riesling or low-tannin reds like pinot noir can work well with Mexican dishes. Sparkling rosé is a safe pairing too. One wine you could try is Williams Selyem Westside Road Neighbors Pinot Noir. It has 4.7 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 140 dollars.