SPAM MUSUBI

 

I've never been to Hawaii and I've never had spam musubi until tonight so I do not have anything to compare this to.  I did research many recipes and this is what I came up with.  My entire family loved it so it was a win in our house!  We are a family of 5 and this made plenty with some leftover, you can easily half the amounts below.  Additional notes at bottom of page.  

2 cups short grain sticky sushi rice and 3 cups water

nori seaweed sheets

1/2 cup rice vinegar

1/4 cup sugar

2 teaspoons salt

furikake rice seasoning (optional)

2 cans spam

sauce (sweet ginger sesame, general tso, sweet and spicy dipping sauce, sweet chili sauce, sriracha mayo, yum yum or *homemade soy sauce mixture)

optional toppings (fried egg, omlette, avocado, cream cheese, carrots)

Cook sushi rice according to the package directions.  Mix together rice vinegar, sugar and salt, when rice is done stir this mixture in to season the rice.  Cut nori seaweed sheets into thirds (shorter length).  Cut spam into 1/4" slices and fry in a pan, flipping once until lightly browned.

To assemble, lay out a sheet of plastic wrap.  Lay a strip of nori down vertical with shiny side down.  Using a 1/4 cup scoop, place a mound of rice in the center of the wrap.  Sprinkle rice generously with furikake seasoning.  Take a slice of spam and dip it in your preferred sauce on both sides and press down over rice.  Fold half of nori over spam and use a dab of sauce to seal the other half.  Use plastic wrap to help shame and firm the musubi.

*homemade soy sauce mixture

1/4 cup soy sauce

2 tablespoons water

1/4 cup ketchup

1/4 cup brown sugar

Heat in a pan until well combined.  

Notes: 

furikake seasoning can be hard to find.  It is only nori, salt and sesame seeds.  We used a lot on each piece and honestly didn't notice the flavor all that much.  You're already using nori and you can add more salt/soy sauce if needed so in a pinch, if you'd like I would just sprinkle on some sesame seeds.

I've heard that is a musubi press out there but I don't have one.  I saw many tutorials using the spam can as a mold, we tried this and found it easier to shape by hand.

Sauce is obviously your preference.  To make it fun we purchased several and made a dipping station so we could choose our own.  We also mixed it up by dipping one side of the spam in one sauce and the other side in another.

Seasoning the sushi rice with the vinegar mixture is optional but we decided we liked it better that way.  

The next time we made these I did not sauce the spam, instead we just dipped the prepared rolls into our choice of sauces, either way works.