An Easy Recipe To Make Old Fashioned Ham Salad

If you have leftover ham, use this old-fashioned ham salad recipe. Read below for an easy recipe. Make ham salad as a sandwich spread or appetizer dip.

Old Fashioned Ham Salad Spread is just 5 simple ingredients that will take you right back to your childhood – leftover baked ham, Miracle Whip, yellow mustard, sweet pickle relish and sugar. Serve this ham salad on a sandwich or crackers, and you have a hit on your hands.

Deviled Ham Salad Recipe

We call ham salad by many different names – sandwich spread, deviled ham salad, salad spread, bologna salad.  Our version is an easy ham salad without eggs (hard-boiled eggs). This recipe uses only 5 ingredients – leftover baked ham, miracle whip, sweet pickle relish and yellow mustard.

Summer is the perfect season for sandwich spreads. What is a sandwich spread you may ask?  It’s really a mixture of mayo or miracle whip and relish with some type of meat that combines into a delicious salad that can be served on a sandwich or eaten with crackers. Some of our favorites are Bologna Salad, Chicken Salad with 3 ingredients, Old-Fashioned Bologna Salad, and Low Carb Lemon Chicken Salad.

Leftover Holiday Ham

If you’ve got loads of leftover ham from Christmas or Easter, give it new life by making this easy recipe. You may not have experienced ham spread yet, but if you like chicken salad, tuna salad or egg salad, then you’re bound to love this recipe too.

Recipe FAQs

• Our version of easy ham salad is a honey baked ham salad recipe.  This means that you can use up that holiday ham – whichever kind of ham you have.  Sometimes we use leftover spiral ham (3 Ingredient Crock Pot Ham) and sometimes it’s a country ham (Cranberry Glazed Ham in the Instant Pot).
• This is the perfect recipe for leftover ham. Jambalaya with Ham is another leftover ham recipe.
• Honey baked hams salads are very salty from the curing process of the ham. You will most likely not need to add additional salt to ham salad spread.
• We prefer using Miracle Whip in our sandwich spread. This can be very controversial. It’s a personal preference.  You could definitely choose to use regular mayonnaise.  You may need to add additional sugar to your recipe if you do use regular mayonnaise to cut the saltiness.
• Our version of deviled ham salad uses sweet pickle relish.  If you prefer dill pickles, go ahead and make the swap.  If you don’t have any relish, chop up some pickles.
• Ham salad is very versatile. There’s endless number of ingredients that remind people of the their favorite version growing up including onion, celery, olives, onion powder, hard boiled eggs and cheese.  Go ahead and modify as you like.
• It’s not a bad idea to start with a little less Miracle Whip/ mayonnaise. If you like it with a little wetter consistency, you can add more.
• You could even make this ham salad spread recipe using bologna like we do in this version.
• Serve this easy ham salad without eggs on bread or with crackers – it’s yummy either way.
• Have a lot of leftover ham? Check out our post with all of our leftover ham recipes!

Ingredient List

• Smoked Ham
• Miracle Whip
• Yellow Mustard
• Sweet Relish
• Sugar

How To Make  Ham  Salad Spread

Step By Step Instructions

1. In a good processor or blender, grind ham into a fine dice.
2. In a bowl, add the remaining ingredients to the ham mixture, and pulse until the desired consistency of sandwich spread. Taste, and season with salt and black pepper, if needed.
3. Serve as a dip with crackers, on a sandwich, in a lettuce wrap or along side plain potato chips.

Storage Instructions

Store these Old Fashioned Ham Salad leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.

For the full deviled ham salad recipe, scroll to the bottom of this post.

We love summer salads. Are you looking for some side dishes to go along with your sandwich spread?  Try Grandma’s Deviled Eggs, Macaroni Salad, Old Fashioned Fruit Salad, Pink Cherry Fluff, Old Fashioned Pea Salad, Red Bean Salad, and Sweet and Sour Coleslaw.