This warm pineapple sauce with its combination of crushed pineapple, brown sugar, and hint of mustard tastes like candy! No ham dinner is complete without a bowl of this syrupy goodness on your holiday table!
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This warm pineapple sauce should come with a warning label due to it’s highly addictive flavor. I mean, the stuff basically tastes like some sort of warm, syrupy dessert topping—not that it’s a bad thing to have something that good on the dinner menu.
The first time I had this pineapple sauce was Easter dinner years and years ago. It changed my life because I’m not usually one who enjoys the tradition ham at Easter…unless it’s Honeybaked and those are a gazillion dollars.
I generally find home-cooked ham, even the spiral cut ones from the store, to be a little on the dry side. But now that we serve this warm pineapple sauce with it, it can be as dry as Arizona in July and I’d eat it.
Have I mentioned this homemade pineapple topping has only a handful of ingredients and takes just a few minutes to make? You can have this baby on the table in about five minutes, which is great because it seems I’m always forgetting something when hosting holiday dinners.
It’s totally okay to forget this sauce because no one will know. They’ll simply think you waited to make it so it was fresh and piping hot for that holiday ham!
You’ll for sure want to add the ingredients for this warm pineapple sauce to your holiday shopping list. But don’t worry because you probably have everything but the crushed pineapple in your pantry!
Warm Pineapple Sauce
Ingredients
- 20 oz crushed pineapple in juice, (1 can)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 T mustard
- 2 T lemon juice
- 1 T cornstarch
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- Whisk pineapple, brown sugar, mustard, lemon juice, cornstarch, and sea salt in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer, stirring occasionally, 2 to 3 minutes until thickened. Serve warm.
Notes
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving:Calories: 87 Total Fat: 0g Saturated Fat: 0g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 0g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 59mg Carbohydrates: 23g Fiber: 0g Sugar: 21g Protein: 0g
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Alida
March 31, 2018 at 1:00 amSuch an unusual recipe but I can only imagine how delicious it will be. ??
Emily Hill
March 31, 2018 at 8:57 pmIt really is so dang good!
Julie
March 31, 2018 at 1:22 amThis looks amazing! I have never thought to make anything like it before! Can’t wait to try the recipe!
Emily Hill
March 31, 2018 at 8:57 pmI hope you do!
Veena Azmanov
March 31, 2018 at 1:28 amOh, I definitely want to try this recipe! It looks very tasty! I like all the ingredients in this recipe. I really like. Thanks for sharing this great recipe.
Emily Hill
March 31, 2018 at 8:57 pmThat’s what is so great–you can keep all the ingredients on hand!
Emily
March 31, 2018 at 1:46 amOmg warm pineapple sauce, I’m in heaven. I’d dollop this on top of ice cream…yum!!
Emily Hill
March 31, 2018 at 8:57 pmI totally need to try that!
Katie Crenshaw | A Fork's Tale
March 31, 2018 at 2:39 amThis Warm Pineapple Sauce may change my life also! It sounds BRILLIANT! I know it would be great on ham, but it also sounds like it would be fantastic on chicken breasts. Either way, I will be whipping this up to try out for myself soon! Thanks.
Emily Hill
March 31, 2018 at 8:57 pmSomeone else mentioned waffles. I think it would be great on everything!
Gloria
December 22, 2018 at 11:58 amNot impressed at all. Had to do a lot of doctoring. I followed the recipe exactly using a 20 ounce can of crushed pineapple in its own juice, addling the mustard, lemon juice, cornstarch and salt. The mustard was overpowering.and the taste was very acidic.
It was not acceptablr and needed something. I added a little white and brown sugar which help improve the taste and seemed to lessen the bite of the acid.
Do not think I would use this recipe again.
Emily Hill
December 22, 2018 at 1:03 pmI’m so sorry it didn’t work out for you! Did you include the 1 cup of brown sugar when making the original recipe? Without it, it would definitely be too strong with the mustard.
Sujbear
April 20, 2019 at 12:35 pmDid you forget/leave out the cup of brown sugar?
Emily Hill
April 22, 2019 at 3:24 pmNope! It’s in the recipe in both the ingredients and the directions.
Jerry
April 20, 2019 at 12:37 pmI take it the capitol T means table spoon (TBS) or does it mean teaspoon tsp?
Emily Hill
April 22, 2019 at 3:23 pmYes! It means tablespoon. Thanks!