SPAM MUSUBI

 

 

2 cups short grain sticky sushi rice and 3 cups water

nori seaweed sheets

1/4 cup rice vinegar

1/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon salt

furikake rice seasoning (optional)

2 cans spam

eel sauce 

optional toppings (fried egg, omlette, avocado, cream cheese, kewpie mayo)

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.

Add about 1/4 cup eel sauce to pan and cook spam slices in sauce until sauce has thickened and slices are coated.

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 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 shape and firm the musubi.  You can also use a musubi mold or the spam can.

*optional sauce recipe if you can't find eel or Korean BBQ 

1/4 cup soy sauce

2 tablespoons water

1/4 cup ketchup

1/4 cup brown sugar

Heat in a pan until well combined  

 

✨furikake seasoning can be hard to find.  It is a combination of nori, salt and sesame seeds 

✨you can cook the spam in different sauces: Korean BBQ sauce, teriyaki sauce, hoisin sauce

✨you can put many things inside your musubi, avocado and egg seem to be the most common

✨fry an egg hard and use spam can to cut shape

✨scramble a sheet of egg and use the spam can to cut

✨make a miniature fried egg