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Honey-glazed smoked meat with fruit juice

Name: Honey-glazed smoked meat with fruit juice
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 40 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 1 Smoked meat; 0.5 cup Honey; 0.5 cup Cane sugar; 1 cup Orange; 1 cup Pears; to taste Fruit

Smoked meat baked under foil in pear and orange juices, then glazed with honey and cane sugar until golden. Serves 6 for a festive meal.

Slovak cuisine · Christmas recipes · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 hr 40 min
Total time: 1 hr 55 min
Temperature: 200 °C (400 °F)
Servings: 6 servings
Difficulty: Medium

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Smoked meat baked with honey in fruit juice is a festive dish suited to Easter, New Year's celebrations, or Sunday lunch. Pear and orange juices are poured around the meat to reach halfway up its sides, then it is covered with foil and baked at 200 °C (400 °F) until tender, with occasional basting. Finally, it is coated with a honey and cane sugar glaze and baked until golden, or finished under the broiler. The sweetness of the honey and fruit balances the salty, smoky flavor.

Ingredients

6 servings

Smoked meat 1
Honey 0.5 cup
Cane sugar 0.5 cup
Orange 1 cup
Pears 1 cup
Fruit to taste

1 cup = 250 ml (metric cup)

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Instructions

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Preheat the oven to 200 °C (400 °F). Pour the pear and orange juices into a deep roasting pan, adding water if needed, and stir. Add the smoked meat so the liquid reaches about halfway up its sides.
Cover the roasting pan with foil and bake at 200 °C (400 °F) until tender. Baste the meat with the fruit juices during baking and add water as needed.
Remove the tender meat from the oven and make the glaze by mixing the honey with the sugar. Pour the glaze over the meat and return it to the oven until golden, or finish it under the broiler, watching carefully so it does not burn.
If desired, garnish the meat with fruit or vegetables before serving. Serve with whole-grain bread, horseradish, and pickles, or with potato salad.

Tip: If the smoked meat is very salty, soak it in cold water for several hours before baking. Choose pear and orange juices with no added sugar, as sweetened juices would make the dish overly sweet with the honey glaze.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 554 kcal
Protein: 23 g
Carbohydrates: 52 g
of which sugars: 49 g
Fat: 29 g
of which saturates: 11 g
Fiber: 2.2 g
Salt: 4.2 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Údené mäso pečené s medom v ovocnom náleve