Crockpot Ham

This pineapple Crockpot ham recipe is sweet, tender, and delicious. Cooks on it’s own and is ready when you are. If you loved our Ninja Foodi ham with a pineapple glaze but want to make it low and slow all day long, this is perfect for holidays!

Ham is such a great holiday dinner idea. It is packed with protein, inexpensive, and provides not only dinner for the 5 of us but we can make our leftover ham recipe with it too for 2 meals in one. Typically if you buy a ham in the grocery store it is a half ham and it is already sliced, not ours.

This year we moved to Idaho and out here a lot of people purchase meat from the local farms around the city. We too bought an entire pig and the hams we got were quarter hams. This came unsliced. I would suggest slicing it thinly like a spiral sliced ham to get each layer hot. I did this on later attempts.

How to Cook a Precooked Ham in a Slow Cooker

Smoking a Cooked Ham is my favorite way to do it but if you don’t have that choice you can slow cook it with a lot of the same flavors. If your piece is too large you may need to trim it down a bit to fit inside this pot. Mine had a bit on the end that I shaved off and just kept on the side to slice for lunchmeat. Beyond that you just add a bit of liquid to steam thru and thru and glaze if you want.

Tips for Cooking a Small Ham in a Slow Cooker

Baste ham in the Crock once or twice if possible throughout the cooking process, it will create a moister juicier piece of meat. Use a small measuring cup to scoop the pineapple juices at the bottom, and just pour on top a few times if you can.

Use a holiday ham that isn’t cut, if you think you will have leftovers because when saved I think it saves better. When it is done only cut the pieces you will eat immediately

You can see here is our ham once I took the top off after it was done, the photo above it was right after it was basted. You can see the difference in how moist the outside is (the best part if you ask me).

Ingredient Notes

1. Crockpot – I used an 8 quart
2. Quarter ham – bone in ham, fully cooked smoked ham
   1. half ham is too large to fit
   2. ours wasn’t spiral cut
   3. if you have a spiral ham the cook time would likely be less
3. Brown sugar
4. Can of pineapple slices chunks – or tidbits
5. Honey
6. Cloves – whole, these are optional of course. And we’re done!! It’s the best way to bake a ham.

If you’re not a fan of pineapple you can make your own type of ham glaze that uses orange juice as the base that is wonderful as well. Once you’re slow cooker ham is done you can baste once again, slice and serve immediately or thicken your ham glaze over the stovetop with a bit of cornstarch. Totally up to you.

with Coke (Option)

Another option to add sweetness and without brown sugar or the fruit would be to use a can of coca cola. Seriously, we do the same thing with our Crockpot ribs recipe. We have also done this with soda and sugars made into a sauce with our Coca Cola ham recipe here.

I do like having several methods of cooking depending on the occasion. Making this crockpot ham recipe does allow you to cook a piece that is a bit larger. This particular piece wouldn’t have fit inside my 6 qt. Instant Pot so there’s that.

How to Thicken the Glaze

Take some liquid out and whisk it together with 1-3 tbsp of cornstarch in a small bowl. Dump this back into your pot and allow to bubble until it thickens to your liking, then serve this on the side

Low Carb Ham Glaze (Option)

What to make with leftovers

If you have leftover ham you should dice it up and put it into our crockpot corn chowder for another meal. Ham and cheese Grands biscuits are a great choice. Slow cooker split pea soup takes rock hard peas to tender and perfect at the end of the day. If you have more to use up, try our creamy Crockpot ham and potato soup.

Other ways to make ham you’ll love

If you want to try another method next year, try our smoked ham recipe too.

Why would you cook your ham in your slow cooker?

You don’t have to heat up your house by turning on your oven During the holidays it frees up your oven for all your side dishes You can leave it unattended if you’re leaving for the day It’s a bit easier than the oven version as there’s no wrapping in foil

The main reason we love this is it stays so moist AND you save oven space when you have side dishes that need to be baked. In just 3-4 hours you too can see how yummy this is. Grab a boneless ham and try it yourself.