A quick and easy air fryer ham that makes the most juicy perfect ham super FAST. Whether you have an uncut ham or a spiral sliced ham, using the air fryer for your holidays makes dinner simple.
Ingredients
3 lb boneless ham
4 T butter
1 T apple cider vinegar
1 T Dijon
1/4 salt
1/4 cinnamon
1/8 tsp ground cloves
3 T sweetener (Brown sugar, coconut sugar, honey or erythritol brown sugar substitute)
1/4+ cup orange juice
Instructions
In a small saucepan over medium-low heat melt the butter. Add the apple cider vinegar, dijon mustard, salt, cinnamon, gloves, sweetener, and orange juice to the pan. Stir the sauce ingredients and cook for a few minutes until the sweetener is broken down and heated through. Set aside.
If your ham has a netting, remove it. If your ham isn’t pre-cut make small slice lines across the top of the ham to score it. You aren’t completely cutting the ham into slices, just making some shallow slices across the top to allow the sauce to absorb into the ham heat.
Lay the ham on a large piece of aluminum foil, make sure you have enough so that you can wrap the entire ham up in foil.
Drizzle about 1/3 of the sauce over the top of the ham and let it drip into the cut slices of ham. Tightly wrap the ham in the foil
Preheat the air fryer to 300F.
Put the ham in the air fryer and cook for 30 minutes.
Remove the ham from the foil and put it back in the air fryer. Brush with a little of the ham glaze, turn the air fryer heat up to 400F and cook for 5+ more minutes until the sauce starts to brown the ham.
Remove the ham from the air fryer, slice the ham, and drizzle the remaining glaze over the top of the ham if desired, or serve it on the side.
Enjoy! Serve the ham in air fryer recipe warm with dinner or cold as a leftover ham sandwich.
Notes
Depending on the size of your air fryer model, you can probably fit up to a 4 lb boneless ham. A 3 lb ham was used in the recipe, if yours is 4 lb plan on cooking it for about 10 minutes longer.
We used a boneless smoked ham but you can also use a pre-cut spiral sliced ham.
Be careful when removing the foil from the ham, a little bit of the ham juices will have accumulated in the foil and you won’t want to spill it.
To make the ham sugar free, either skip the glaze completely or swap the brown sugar for coconut sugar, monk fruit, or erythritol.
A variation to using orange juice would be adding pineapple juice or apple cider.
