Wild boar ham with honey

Ingredients

• Boar ham weighing 2 kg
• 50 g cane sugar
• honey
• carrots - 1 pc.
• 5 bay leaves
• dry white wine
• onion - 1 onion
• 10 juniper berries
• For marinade:
• 8 juniper berries
• juice of 1 orange
• 4 black peppercorns
• white wine vinegar - 100 ml
• bay leaf (small)

Cooking

Step 1

To prepare the marinade, finely chop the onion and carrot, mix with the rest of the marinade ingredients.

Step 2

Place the ham in a deep bowl, pour over the marinade and leave in a cool place for 36 hours, turning occasionally.

Step 3

Then remove the ham, dry it on a paper towel, rub with salt. Preheat the oven to 180ºС, put the ham on a baking sheet and place in the oven for 2 hours.

Step 4

Pour sugar into a saucepan, add honey and orange juice. Heat over low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Step 5

Remove the ham from the oven, make cuts on top of it with a knife in the form of a lattice. Spread with honey syrup and place back in the oven, increasing the temperature to 230ºС. Bake an additional 30 minutes, every 5 minutes. smearing the ham with syrup.

Step 6

For 10 min. until cooked, add crushed juniper berries and peppercorns, chopped bay leaves to the saucepan with syrup. Continue greasing the ham.

Step 7

Remove the cooked meat from the oven, let it brew for 10 minutes. Cut into portions and serve.