Even spam haters will agree, this easy Spam Musubi is flavor packed and easy to make. Glazed spam on sushi rice with a strip of nori to top it all off.
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Cook Time5 minutesmins
Assembly Time40 minutesmins
Course: Dinner, Snack
Cuisine: hawaiian
Keyword: Spam, Spam Musubi, sushi
Servings: 8
Calories: 164kcal
Author: Kellie
Cost: $5
Ingredients
2sheets of nori papertrimmed and cut into 8 long strips
1cupcooked sushi ricecooked according to package instructions, and cooled to room temperature.
1can spam12oz cut into 8 slices. (*SAVE THE EMPTY CAN!)
2sheets of nori cut in quarters
2TBSPWorcestershire sauce
2tspoyster sauce
3tsplow sodium soy sauce
2tspsugar
Water and rice vinegarto keep rice from sticking to your fingers during assembly
Instructions
In a small bowl mix the Worcestershire sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce and sugar together well. Set aside.
In a shallow bowl, place the sliced spam and then pour the marinade over it. Cover with plastic wrap. Let this marinate for 10 minutes.
Heat a medium sauté pan on medium high heat for one minute (you want the pan to get nice and hot!). Once hot, turn the heat down to medium and fry the spam for about 1-2 minute each side. You may need to do this in batches so each piece has room to brown. Check after 1 minute, and continue if it needs to brown a bit more (this is a part where it can go from cooked to burnt quickly). It should be slightly browned on both sides. Once each piece is cooked, set on a plate to the side and cover with foil to keep warm.
Option- you can glaze it while cooking with the leftover marinade however this will create a thick sort of coating in the pan.
Build the Musubi – using a clean work surface/cutting board, have your nori paper, cooked sushi rice, small bowl of ¼ cup water mixed with 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar, and sautéed Spam. Additional helpful equipment includes the empty spam can (cleaned out and dried), plastic wrap, and a serving plate.
There are two ways of assembling the Musubi- (1) using the Spam can, or (2) using a Spam Masubi mold (found on Amazon). Both methods are assembled “upside down” so to speak or backwards, so once molded, it's ready to eat and you don’t need to flip it over to wrap with nori.
Method 1:
Line the empty clean spam can with plastic wrap like a sling- it needs to fit at and cover the bottom and have plastic go up along both sides.
In the plastic lined spam can, carefully place a strip of nori paper on the bottom.
Top the nori strip with one slice of cooked spam.
Top the spam with 3 TBSP of cooked rice.
*This is where the small bowl of ¼ cup water mixed with 1 TBSP rice vinegar will come in handy; dip your fingers in this mix to keep the rice from sticking to your fingers so it can be pressed into the Musubi*
Using the back of the TBSP measuring spoon, press the rice down and keep adding more pressure to form the Musubi.
Once formed, using both sides of the plastic sling, gently lift out the formed Masubi.
Place on your flat surface, and fold over one side of the nori strip to the center of the Masubi, then add some of the vinegar water on that nori tip to seal in the other side of the nori strip.
Place the finished Musubi on a serving platter while the remaining pieces are assembled.
Notes
Nori / Dried Seaweed paper sheets can be found in the international section of the grocery store. They might also be pre-perforated into strips, which will make it easier to use for this recipe.When molding the musubi, there might be a bit more rice under the spam- that will happen simply since the spam may shrink just a bit during cooking. Trim the excess rice if you want or not.When using this rice to make the Masubi, mix 1/4cup water with 1TBL rice vinegar to dip your hands/fingers in to keep rice from sticking to your hands.