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The Cranberry Sauce-Glazed Gammon joint on a white plate with a slice in front of it

Instant Pot Duo Crisp Cranberry-Glazed Gammon

Maria Bravo
Gammon is a Christmas and Sunday dinner classic and this Cranberry-Glazed Gammon in the Instant Pot Duo Crisp is so easy! Christmas ham doesn't get much more festive
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course Main Course
Cuisine British
Servings 8 people, can be scaled up or down
Calories 181 kcal

Equipment

  • Instant Pot Duo Crisp

Ingredients
  

  • 1.160 kg unsmoked gammon this was the weight of my gammon, you can buy a smaller or bigger gammon, of course, just follow the guidelines in my How to Pressure Cook Gammon to find my pressure cooking timings with more guidelines in the recipe card below (I've got you covered!)
  • 2 litres water cold
  • 6-8 garlic cloves
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 carrot large

Glaze

  • cranberry sauce or, of course, glaze of your choice (honey and mustard, chilli jam and orange marmalade are great gammon glazes)

Instructions
 

  • Cook my Cranberry Sauce recipe, it’s so easy! You can do this ahead or, if you have two Instant Pots or electric pressure cookers, cook the cranberry sauce while the gammon is cooking.
    How to pressure cook Cranberry Sauce (with Instant Pot instructions)
  • Place the gammon in the inner pot with the water, carrot and garlic cloves.
    A gammon joint, five garlic cloves and a whole carrot inside an Instant Pot, there's a bay leaf on top of the joint
  • Press Pressure Cook and programme 25 minutes, calculate 11 minutes per 500 g based on the weight of your gammon joint (and make sure you read my full post on how to pressure cook a gammon).
  • At the end of pressure cooking time, do a full natural pressure release if you have time. If you’re out of time, you can release the rest of the steam trapped inside after 15 minutes but not any earlier, meat needs the natural pressure release or it can go tough.
  • Reserve the liquid (fantastic in soups and, of course, my Gammon Rice), clean and dry the inner pot and put back in the base. Or swap to a clean spare inner pot.
  • Place the joint directly on trivet / steamer rack OR on a dish on trivet / steamer reack like I did (mine is an enamel pie dish from Aldi) and apply half of the glaze.
    Gammon joint covered in cranberry sauce
  • Place Air Fryer Lid on, press Broil and programme 5 minutes at 204ºC / 400ºF then apply the rest of the glaze and broil for another 5 minutes at 204ºC / 400ºF.
    Gammon inside the Instant Pot Duo Crisp after second glaze with the cranberry sauce

Video

Notes

*Instant Pot Terminology
Natural pressure release (NPR, also called natural release or NR) means letting the float valve pop back down of its own accord, so basically you don’t need to do anything at the end and can keep your feet up. If it takes over 15 minutes, you're ok to release the rest of the steam (by turning the steam release handle to Venting) that may be left in order to unlock and open the lid.
Quick pressure release (QPR, also called quick release or QR) means venting the steam as soon as the pressure cooking process finishes, i.e. moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting.
Sometimes you'll see me talk of a combination of NPR followed by a QPR. For example a recipe may have a 4 minute NPR followed by a QPR. You wait for 4 minutes at the end of the pressure cooking time and then do a QPR by moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting. 

Nutrition

Calories: 181kcalCarbohydrates: 1gProtein: 32gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 90mgSodium: 116mgPotassium: 554mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 1285IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 24mgIron: 1mg
Keyword Christmas ham, cranberry, cranberry sauce, gammon, ham
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