Leftover Gammon

jcr16

my mil bought me 3 gammon joints xmas eve. i already had a huge one for xmas day. anyway put in fridge. she said they had a really long date on them so not to worry. anyway we finished up the gammon we had on xmas day on the 29th. only to find the 2 i had been given had to be used by the 1st. so i cooked them new years eve.

We have had 1 meal from it. but still got a huge dinner plate full of sliced gammon.

ANy simple ideas for the freeaer. i have no cheese in .got some bacon , mushrooms , onions . i don't mind if i am just cooking a sauce base and then i can defrost as needed to make pie's. but without any cheese or chicken i just can't seem to get inspiried into making this into anythign.

Help

moanymoany

I buy packs of dried peas - the ones you make mushy peas out of - and make 'Dutch Pea Soup' with them - and a bit of the lesftover gammon.

If you google 'Dutch Pea Soup' and fudge the recipes to suit what you have in the house you will have a solid soup that is a main course.

I've got a pack of dried peas to use when I cook the gammon joint in the freezer.

angelavdavis

Make a white roux sauce and add mustard into it and serve gammon steaks with mash and veg - lovely!

Slice it up and freeze for sandwiches

I make a soup with it - throw in any veg you have, add some dried soup pulses and let it bubble away in the slow cooker.

I cooked up a gammon last night and have made soup from the stock adding some veg as described. I have let it cool down and will slice and freeze, then keep a couple of thick slices to have with mustard sauce.

I also fry off some onions, garlic and mushrooms and add it to the white sauce described above (minus mustard but adding a little white wine although not essential), add some shredded gammon and serve with pasta. Yum!

You can also use the pasta idea above, but use a pie filling too.

It can really go a long way.

moanymoany

tanith wrote: »

If you like comfort food try this....you can use chopped fried bacon but works just as well with chopped leftover gammon....

fry some onion and the bacon if you are using bacon...
Make up some suet pastry.. 6oz pl fl, 3oz suet.. roll out the pastry then spread the onion and bacon/gammon over the pastry and roll up like a swiss roll . Loosly wrap in foil leaving some folded over at top for expansion.. they place in a large saucepan fill with water till it comes about halfway up the foil and simmer for about 40mins... make sure you keep checking the water hasn't boiled away...

Slice and serve with your favourite veg and gravy its soooooooo delicious...

I can second this. I put chopped fried onions in as well and cook mine in a steamer for 2 hours. It is possible to put anything you like in. I mixed the onions and chopped bacon with about 1/3rd of a tin of tomatoes - no juice. I think if I was really skint it would be good with marmite or any strong flavour spread on it. It is just divine! I also like it cold.

reverie

We had a whole cooked ham which my FIL kindly gave us at the weekend for a party. It was lovely! I've taken off lots and lots of slices and frozen them, now am left with the bone with quite a lot of bits of meat on, but the bits of meat left are awkward to carve off. If this was raw I'd make pea and ham soup, can I still boil it up as I would for the soup to get the meat off? Is it safe to cook it again? Will it work? Thanks!

donny-gal

I cannot see why not as long as it throughly heated up. I am sure our Mum's and Grandma's would have.
DG

wychwood27

I've done this and it tasted great, and i'm still alive!

mrs_lds

Bought loads of sliced ham for a buffet lots left over. Does anyone have any ideAS as to what I can make to feed the family with it today

thak you

Beebop

If it's not been previously frozen you could freeze it? Although would only recommend this if the ham itself hasn't been left out on the buffet for ages and was extra you had in the fridge.
Or to cook with it - chicken and ham pie or pasta with leeks and ham?

thriftlady_2

Serve it with baked spuds, crunchy winter salad and pickles.

Make a hash with potatoes, ham, onions, maybe some cheese.

Croque monsieurs* for everyone plus soup.

Omelettes, Spanish-style omelette, ham, fried eggs and chips.

Potato, bacon and onion hotpot with ham in place of bacon. Recipe on this board somewhere.

Risotto

Freeze it;)

*ham and cheese toasties