Monday, May 23, 2011

Ham with Cherries and Caramelized Onions

How excited have you been to see fresh beautiful cherries in the grocery store or farmers market? Is it just me? Well, I bought my first bunch of the season yesterday and decided to build dinner around them. My husband loves ham--me, not so much. However, I figured that if you cover anything with a yummy fruit sauce it'll taste good right? At Costco they sell fully cooked ham steaks (3 per pack) and every so often I'll buy them for Scott. Tonight I decided to use one of them but I probably could have cooked up two.

Ham w Cherries and Caramelized Onions

1 ham steak
1/2 cup cherry jam
1/2 cup chopped fresh cherries
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1 large yellow onion sliced
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 cup chopped arugula (optional)

Pre-heat oven to 350
Cut the ham steak into 4 large wedges, place in a casserole dish (sprayed with pam of course). In a small bowl combine jam, cherries,vinegar and stir. Pour mixture over the ham equally spreading to all the pieces. Put in oven and bake for 30. While ham is baking heat a medium sized saute pan and pour in olive oil and add onions. cook over medium heat stirring every so often. Keep an eye on the onions til caramelized. When the onions are done open the oven and pour them on top of the ham and continue cooking for 5 more minutes. When the ham is finished (30 min) remove from oven and top with the arugula.

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