Ham Steaks Recipe, please

[jen3kids]

I'm working on my January meal planning (I'm into week 2 - woo hoo!)

 

We have a freezer full of pork and beef that I got in the fall. I've got tons of ham steaks and usually I just bake or pan fry them and have them as is. However, our farmer went to a nitrate-free curing process so, in my opinion, the ham steaks are not as flavourful. I didn't realize how tasty nitrates were :drool5:

 

Does anyone have a marinade or slow-cooking recipe to add flavour to these. I'm thinking brown sugar or mustard, maybe?

 

I do use them to make a very tasty split-pea and ham soup, but that only takes 1/2 or 3/4 of one, plus we can only eat so much of it, tasty as it is!

 

Thanks,

[cjzimmer1]

I'm jealous. I got some nitrate free pork from our farmer once and it was so much better testing. I was sad when he stopped raising pork the next year.

 

Could you chop some of the steaks up? For things like fried rice, adding to scrambled eggs, scalloped potatoes, maybe a ham, broccoli and noodle casserole? I would go to allrecipes and look for recipes where you add leftover ham, that would give you recipes where ham isn't the centerpiece and with the other flavors you probably wouldn't notice the difference in flavor as much.

[jen3kids]

For things like fried rice, adding to scrambled eggs, scalloped potatoes, maybe a ham, broccoli and noodle casserole? I would go to allrecipes and look for recipes where you add leftover ham, that would give you recipes where ham isn't the centerpiece and with the other flavors you probably wouldn't notice the difference in flavor as much.

 

 

 

I can definitely chop them up, but I have so many of them and they are huge. Last time I made split pea and ham soup I only used 1/2 of a steak. The other half got chopped up for omelettes. I will look at allrecipes.com. I love that site!

 

Thanks for your suggestion.