Air Fryer Ham. The ultimate guide showing you how to cook your favourite ham in the air fryer.
Perfect for a quick ham roast dinner without the effort, but with the maximum flavour. Once you cook air fryer ham in either your air fryer basket or air fryer oven, there is no going back.
Heads up! This ham recipe is so so popular with our air fryer readers that they asked us to feature it in our air fryer beginner’s cookbook called Air Fryer Easy Everyday. You can get a copy here.
Our Air Fryer Ham is an update from November 2015. We have moved our ham to the air fryer after years cooking it in the slow cooker and we hope you love the update as much as us!
Air Fryer Ham
I always thought of ham as being rather boring. It was always something that was added to a cheese sandwich to give it extra depth.
Plus, for many years I was a vegetarian and I always hated the fact that whenever you bought a cheese sandwich that someone had stuck some ham in it!
Then I met Dominic and he showed me a brand new love for ham. He showed me that there were many tasty ways to prepare it.
Some simple and some not so simple and I soon fell in love ham.
I think part of my hatred for it growing up, was the fact that it was often smoked. This is something I still hate now, as long as the ham is unsmoked then I am happy.
In this air fryer ham recipe (which is super simple to make) it is flavoured with a honey mustard glaze and cooked on the rotisserie in the air fryer oven.
We like to have air fryer ham in the summer with some salad and then in winter we cook our air fryer ham as a roast dinner with some air fryer roast potatoes and steamed vegetables.
Air Fryer Gammon Joint Vs Air Fryer Boneless Ham
Before you dig into our air fryer ham recipe, I wanted to set the record straight of something that I see getting asked on air fryer Facebook Groups whenever someone cooks ham/gammon.
Air Fryer Gammon Joint = the name given to uncooked boneless ham that needs cooking that is bought in Europe.
A gammon joint is what us Brits grew up calling it and I know often when someone shares an air fryer gammon joint recipe, every American is asking what it is.
Air Fryer Boneless Ham = The same thing applies with Brits when they see recipes that talk about ham, or boneless ham.
To the typical Brit ham represents cooked ham meat and that is why they often roll their eyes and ask a million questions when someone says an hour for ham, as in their world the ham is already cooked and ready for sandwiches.
So next time you see air fryer gammon joints being mentioned you now know what it really means!
Can You Air Fry Ham?
Absolutely! Ham cooks fantastically in the air fryer. In fact, since I started cooking air fryer ham, I doubt I will ever cook ham in the oven, or in the slow cooker again.
That is because not only does the air fryer keep the ham moist, but it also gives it that fantastic crispy crust, that you just don’t get with a slow cooker.
Air fryer ham is more of a baked air fryer ham and gives it a wonderful just baked depth of flavour.
It is perfect for if you want an air fryer ham roast and by cooking it in the air fryer oven (like we are today) you have room to add in potatoes and vegetables too for the ultimate ham roast dinner in the air fryer.
Air Fryer Oven Ham
In todays air fryer ham recipe, we are cooking the ham in our air fryer oven. This makes your ham cook better and has a crispier rotisserie flavour to it.
The difference with air fryer oven ham, is that you are prepping your ham as usual, then placing it onto the rotisserie and then your air fryer ham rotates as it cooks.
How To Air Fry Ham?
Cooking ham in the air fryer is so EASY and if you have baked ham in the oven before, you will love how SIMPLE it is.
- In a rush? Place your marinade ingredients into a bowl and mix well. Dice your ham so that you can add the marinade into the cuts for a much better flavour of your air fryer ham.
- Add skewers and place your air fryer ham onto the rotisserie. Then it will rotate as it cooks and what is great about this, is that all of the ham will cook evenly.
- While it cooks prep your favourite side dishes and then you have a delicious air fryer roast ham dinner ready to eat.
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How Long To Air Fry Ham?
I imagined that air fryer ham would take ages and would have to be cooked on a low heat, just to cook the ham perfectly. But cooking air fryer ham really doesn’t take that long.
We cooked our air fryer ham for 50 minutes. This included 25 minutes at a high temperature and then a further 25 minutes at a lower temperature. This made sure that our air fryer ham was crispy on the outside and perfectly cooked in the centre.
Air Fryer Ham
Ingredients
Kitchen Gadgets:
Air Fryer Ham Ingredients:
- 1.2 Kg Ham/Gammon Joint
- 6 Tbsp Honey
- 4 Tbsp Heinz Mustard
- 2 Tbsp Garlic Puree
Instructions
- Remove the fat from the ham with a sharp knife. Score the ham joint with cube like scores.
- Mix in a bowl your honey, garlic and mustard until the honey is slightly sticky and well mixed into the mustard.
- Smother your ham in your marinade, making sure plenty goes into your scored sections.
- Feed your ham onto the rod skewers and place them into your air fryer oven. Cook for 25 minutes at 200c/400f followed by a further 25 minutes at 170c/340f.
- Remove the rod and slice your ham.
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I bought a 1kg gammon this year, and as I cook only for myself, I cut it into two x 500gm pieces. O Cooked the first half in my air-fryer for the recommended times, and it was almost burned outside. I’ll try a much shorter time when I cook the second one. My basic airfryer does not have a rotisserie, so I’ll turn it a couple of times during the cooking. Any suggestions on the timing?
Hi Anne,
The times in the recipe is for a 1.2kg ham so that is why it was burnt. Half the time if the joint is smaller than in the recipe and always turn things over around half way through the cooking time 🙂
Cooed Hamlin for 50 mins and it is tough the thermometer is hard to push in
Not sure if over cooked or not long enough it dies not lol cooked
What can I do
It has cooled down
My airfry is only 1400 wat died this make a difference
Hi Carol,
The wattage might have made a difference but if your air fryer got to the required temperature that it says in the recipe and the size of the ham is the same then it should be cooked, just try your best to get the temp probe right into the middle and try and find a fatty bit as going through the meat can be quite hard. To see if it is cooked slice it and if it has gone a darker colour than the outside then it will be cooked, also if not just put a few slices back into the air fryer for a fdew minutes and then that will make sure it is cooked right through 🙂
Hi
I’m in the uk. I have a 900g gammon joint (Sainsbury’s BGTY)
How long would you cook that for please, I’m not planning on putting any glaze on it so does it just go in as it is. Cooking with a basket type air fryer
Thank you
Hi Jo
Sorry for the late reply.
Yes you could put it in with the skin on but it will take longer to cook as the skin will get used as a reflector for some of the heat with most of the heat from a basket air fryer coming from above. We cooked ours for 50 minutes and that was with a air fryer oven and that had a rotisserie function so for a basket one i would cook on 180c for 50 minutes turning it half way through, then check with a thermometer and if it is above 70c then it is cooked 🙂
What temp would you put gammon on in a air fryer please and how long for I am in the U.K. and I have just brought a air fryer from amazon
Hi Tracy,
If you have a basket air fryer then if the joint is 1.2kg it will take slightly longer to cook than the one in our recipe, as we used a rotisserie air fryer oven to cook it. I would put the joint on for 45 minutes and turning half way through on 180c, then check if it iscooked, if not a further 10 minutes on the same temp 🙂
Do you know you can’t find a 1.2 Kg (2.6lb) ham in any store in the USA. I think your recipe is all wrong
This looks wonderful!
How long do you cook it. If you don’t have a rotisserie?
Hi Vicki,
If you have not got a rotisserie i would cook it for 1 hr 30 minutes in any other air fryer oven but if using the standard air fryer with a basket i would cook it for 1 hr 30 minutes again turning every 30 minutes. We cook a full chicken in a standard air fryer and it takes roughly 45 minutes depending on size of the chicken so that is where i am getting my cooking time from. If you give it a try let us know how it works out 🙂