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Pineapple Hot Dish with Baked Ham

I grew up eating a version of this pineapple hot dish when I was a child. We would traditionally eat this around the winter holidays, served with some re-heated HoneyBaked ham.
For a side dish, consider serving with some boiled & buttered green beans.

Ingredients

  • ½ HoneyBaked Ham
  • 3 tsp sunflower seed oil, for greasing your casserole dish
  • 1/3 cup + 1 Tbsp white granulated sugar
  • 6 Tbsp all-purpose flour
  • 2 cans (40oz) canned pineapple chunks in their juice
  • 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
  • 1 cup pecans, lightly toasted & chopped
  • ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
  • 48 Ritz crackers, or 1.5 sleeves of Ritz crackers, crushed into small pieces
  • 8 Tbsp or 1 stick of salted butter, melted

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 350F.
  • Grease the insides of your casserole dish lightly with sunflower seed oil.
  • Mix together the white granulated sugar and the all-purpose flour with a fork in a mixing bowl.
  • Stir in the canned pineapple chunks and their juice, the shredded cheddar cheese, the toasted & chopped pecans, and the ground nutmeg.
  • Mix until the ingredients are fully distributed.
  • Carefully spread the mixture in an even layer into the bottom of the greased casserole dish.
  • Mix together the crushed Ritz crackers with the melted butter.
  • Carefully layer the crushed Ritz cracker & butter mixture over the top of the casserole, making sure you have an even layer of the cracker mixture spread across the top.
  • Bake at 350F for roughly 30-40 minutes, or until the cracker layer is golden brown and the center of the casserole is piping hot.
  • Remove casserole from the oven.
  • Allow casserole to cool for 15 minutes before serving.
  • While your casserole is cooling down, slice your desired quantity of HoneyBaked ham, and place in an oven-safe container, covered with aluminum foil.
  • Gently reheat sliced ham at 350F for about 15 minutes, until ham is completely warmed through.
  • Remove ham from oven.
  • Remove foil covering from ham and serve hot, with the pineapple hot dish.

Notes

You can easily refrigerate and re-heat leftovers of this casserole—it will taste great a few days after you’ve made it.
The HoneyBaked hams I ate when growing up were of the storebought variety, which is a pre-cooked product that is easy to warm up and serve. It makes life simpler if you are in a hurry and trying to feed a large group.