Does your family cook Turkey or Ham for the holiday dinner? My family does both. Cooking both in a small oven can be tricky. That’s why I’m sharing this Slow Cooker Brown Sugar Ham with you today. Not only is it easy, it turns out moist, sweet and tender.
I’ll make this recipe just for my family, not just for the holidays . I’ll use the leftover meat for grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, and ham and eggs for breakfast, and I’ll make ham sandwiches for my husband and daughter’s lunches. None of this meat gets wasted!
I start this recipe with a 7 pound pork shoulder picnic ham. I stuck it down in the slow cooker slicing side down. I added a couple squeezes of mustard, a 1/2 cup of brown sugar and a whole can of crushed pineapple. Cooked it on LOW for 6 hours. How easy is that?!
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- 5-7 lb. picnic pork shoulder ham (this ham will say ready to eat)
- ⅛ cup or so of mustard (just eye-ball it)
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 (20-oz.) can crushed pineapple - DO NOT DRAIN
- Add the ham in to the slow cooker, I put the part that looks sliced down. Squirt over the mustard. Pat over the brown sugar. Now pour over the pineapple, letting the jucies fall down the sides, spread the crushed pineapple over the brown sugar.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 6 hours. Don't open the lid while it cooks, so heat doesn't escape.
- Using a carving fork, turn the ham around so the sliced side is on the side. Carve the ham, it's ok the let the ham drop down into the juices, they are SO good.
- Serve and enjoy.
I used my 6-quart oval slow cooker to make this recipe.
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Great recipe and I am really enjoying your Magical cook book
Thanks Joe. That is so great to hear!
That does look easy and yummy!
I love having leftover ham for lunch. It really is much more economical and healthy that way. Got to try it in the slow cooker next time.
Perfect timing! I just bough a ham to cook! Love how easy this is to make!
Love how easy and delicious this looks!!
Gonna try this with spiral cut ham I just bought. It won’t take up oven space that’s gonna be needed for more dishes.
I had never made a ham in my slow cooker before until last month, and I was impressed with how amazing it turned out! 🙂 I love this brown sugar version.
I love the ingredients you used in this recipe! So delicious and easy!
I have a spiral ham in the fridge right now. Would this recipe also work with a spiral ham?
Hi Lisa, I think it would work fine. I plan to try that next myself.
Thank you!
Do I have to use “yellow mustard “??
You could use Dijon mustard or skip it all together! It will be good either way.
I don’t have any pineapple, and I have my grandaughter, so I can’t leave the house! Any suggestions? Can I just leave out pineapple?
You can leave out the pineapple, add some apple juice if you have it. Do you have any apple pie filling, that would work good too. You can’t go wrong.
The large smoked ham I is uncooked. She I boil it in water in a pan before putting in slow cooker?
Is there any slow cooker instructions on it? I bet it would be fine cooking in the slow cooker only, but a bit longer.
No instructions on it. I usually buy an uncooked smoked ham and simmer in water and peppercorns depending on weight for an hour or two. Then smother in honey mustard or whatever we want to flavour it with. Then wrap in foil and bake in oven. I am tempted after simmering to put in slow cooker then follow your recipe. It will free up oven for turkey etc. Thanks for your reply. Would love your advice though. I imagine it will be more moist cooking in slow cooker. Oven can dry meat for leftover use.
I see. Yes I think the ham would do great adding it to the slow cooker after boiling. The crushed pineapple will add more moisture as it cooks in the slow cooker.
I have a 7 ld ready-to-cook ham. How long should I cook it in the crockpot?
6 hours on low will work great. Keep the lid on so the ham gets hot through.
Thank you. Happy Christmas x
I was thinking of using a pork roast with this recipe, do you think it will be just as good.
How long for an 8.3 pound UN cooked ham?
Can I do 3 hours on high instead of 6 on low like most recipes?
I don’t think 3 hours on high would get the center of the Ham hot.
I have a smoked pork shoulder picnic uncooked, would the recipe stay the same or should I keep in the slow cooker a little longer?
I would say 7 on LOW if it say’s it’s uncooked.
Think this would work without the brown sugar? Brown sugar ham is a bit sweet for me, but the pineapple/mustard combo sounds intriguing.
I think it would work fine without the sugar!
Hi! I’m just cooking for two and have a 3lb sliced ham. Would you say I should just cut back on the time I cook the ham? Maybe 4 hours instead, or would it matter?
5 hours on low would be fine I think!
I have a ten pound fully cooked ham. How long do you think would take to get heated through?
My crockpot only has the option for 6 hours high or 8 hours low. Which one should I do?
Set it for 8 hours on low but turn off your slow cooker after 6 hours. 🙂
Do I need to add any juice other than the pineapple juice to the crock pot?
No, the pineapple juice will be plenty
If you don’t want to use a glaze, will the ham be drier?
So, the only ham I was able to get (since Easter is this Sunday and I did this last minute!) is bone-in. Does this change any time at all?
I have a bone in ham also. I’m wanting to cook it tonight. Hopefully, we get a response soon.
Any ham will work fine. I can never find the exact ham I’m looking for usually, so this recipe is flexible