Dutch oven Sweet and Sour Ham Steaks Recipe

by Gary House

Dutch oven Sweet and Sour Ham Steaks Recipe

I made this recipe with my “Mini me”, Chef Jarin, in our backyard the other day. He was quite excited to do this with me and decide this was going to be his homework “chore project” for school this week. Our recipe was a spur of the moment thing, we were talking about our favorite meals, Jarin happens to love “Orange Chicken” with a touch of heat to it and we just happened to have some not-chicken in the fridge (Ham). So we decided to whoop something up, move it outside to the Dutch oven and make it Sweet -n- Sour, hence the simple creation of our “Dutch oven Sweet and Sour Ham Steaks Recipe” ala Chef Jarin.

Our recipe was easy to put together with the basic stock already in our kitchen: Ham, honey mustard, cloves, red bell peppers, onion, pineapple rings, brown sugar, ketchup, vinegar, soy sauce and cornstarch.

First I set Jarin to slicing the the bell peppers and onion, well actually I had to step in and slice the onion (it was quite potent), he did quite a good job on that bell pepper though.

We measured everything out and them set to lighting our charcoal briquets so we could start pre-heating our Camp Chef 12″ Dutch oven.

Note the typical 12″ Dutch oven charcoal set-up with 9 coals on the bottom and 15 coals on the top.

If you are not sure about how to calculate this for your Dutch oven, just watch this short video: How Many Coals to use on a Camp Dutch oven?

First things first,  we placed our ham steaks in the bottom of the Dutch oven, added 3 cloves to each ham steak and then coated each ham steak with honey mustard.

Add sliced onions and red bell peppers on top of the ham steaks, then place pineapple rings over the onion and pepper slices.

Mix up sweet and sour sauce ingredients: Brown sugar, ketchup, rice vinegar, soy sauce, slurry (cornstarch and water mixed together) and pour over everything in the pot

Place the Dutch oven lid back on and bake for 30 minutes.

Serve with white rice and take a better picture than this 🙂

Enjoy!

1.  Dutch oven charcoal set-up with 9 coals on the bottom and 15 coals on the top.
2. Place ham steaks in the bottom of the Dutch oven.
3. Add 3 cloves to each ham steak.
4. Coat each ham steak with honey mustard.
5. Add sliced onions and red bell peppers on top of ham steaks
6. Then place pineapple rings over the onion and pepper slices.
7. Mix up sweet and sour sauce ingredients: Brown sugar, ketchup, rice vinegar, soy sauce, slurry (cornstarch and water mixed together).
8. Pour over everything in the Dutch oven.
9. Place your Dutch oven lid back on and bake for 30 minutes.