Odin Recipes

Spam Musubi

two spam musubi on a small plate with chopsticks

Spam musubi is delicious. It is well known that spam musubi originated from Hawaii.


Ingredients

  • Spam
  • Rice (Calrose or Sushi)
  • Seaweed

Sauce Ingredients

  • Teriyaki Sauce
  • Soy Sauce
  • Oyster Sauce
  • Brown Sugar
  • Honey
  • Mirin
  • Seasame Oil (Optional)

Note: A spam musubi rice press/mold would be helpful to have but not necessary!


Steps

  1. Rinse thoroughly and cook rice in rice cooker
  2. To make sauce, mix all ingredients together in a bowl
  3. Cut spam into flat, even slices
  4. Pan fry spam
  5. After cooking spam for a few minutes on each side, reduce heat and add sauce
  6. Prepare seaweed and place mold on top of seaweed
  7. Build the mold by adding rice and spam on top then remove mold. If no mold, simply lay out rice in a line and put spam on top
  8. Wrap seaweed around rice and spam. Use water along last edge of seaweed to seal the wrap