Ham Salad Spread

Good. Made it twice. Don't know if it'll be my 'go to', but definitely worth making .

I gave this 4 stars because as written that would have been way too much mayo and salt for an already salt cured ham. I was looking for something that was like my mom's ham salad recipe. This was close but I tweaked it to make it like hers. I can tell you that I used probably 3 lbs of ham and cubed it and then put it in the food processor to finely grind it. My mom used a meat grinder back in the day. I removed the ham to a large bowl. Then I chopped the onion and celery and put it in the food processor to finely chop. I did not add salt or pepper, nor did I add the green pepper because we don't like the flavor in ham salad. I added the onion and celery in the amounts written to the ground ham and about 1/2 cup of sweet relish and then just added mayo to the consistency that I wanted the spread but it was way less than 2 cups, I used probably half of that. When you grind everything down, the mayo spreads out better and you require less of it. This spread is perfect in sandwiches or on crackers or bruschetta.

The best ever, ever, the James Beard House would be proud to serve these!

Yum! So delicious. This was savory and tangy with loads of eye opening flavor. I cut this down to 2 servings and used deli lunchmeat sliced ham that I chopped fine, Miracle Whip, dried onion, left out the green pepper and salt, and served this immediately with Ritz crackers. This made a fast delicious lunch in less than 10 minutes and turned that everyday ham into something special.

Good - but all the extra ingredients are unnecessary. All you really need is ground cooked ham, sweet relish & mayo.