Best-Ever Spam Musubi — Plays Well With Butter
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Official cooking video · Plays Well With Butter / Jess Larson · YOUTUBEHawaiian Teriyaki-Glazed Spam Musubi (7 Pieces)
Hawaiian handheld snack with sweet-savory glazed canned luncheon meat, rice, furikake and nori. Adapted from a Hawaiian family recipe yielding seven musubi.
Ingredients
servings: 7 · Check ingredients
Steps
- 01
Rinse two cups Calrose rice until the water is fairly clear and drain in a sieve.
- 02
Add rice and water to a cooker. About 480ml is a starting estimate only; follow the rice package and 2-cup cooker marking, then cook the rice.
- 03
Mix 1/3 cup brown sugar, 3 tbsp soy sauce, 2 tbsp mirin and 1 tsp sesame oil until combined.
- 04
Slice one 340g can of luncheon meat lengthwise into seven even slices. Cut 3 1/2 nori sheets in halves to make seven long strips.
- 05
Over medium heat, pan-fry all seven slices of luncheon meat until golden, about 2–3 minutes per side, using optional 1 tsp oil if needed.
- 06
Lower heat to medium-low, add the prepared sauce and gently bubble one to two minutes to glaze the slices. Watch closely to prevent sugar from burning.
- 07
Divide warm cooked rice into seven portions and gently press each in a musubi mold into a rectangle. Sprinkle 1/7 of the furikake over each.
- 08
Place one glazed luncheon-meat slice on each rice block and wrap with one nori strip, sealing the end against the rice. Repeat for all seven musubi.
- 09
Serve freshly made musubi. Do not leave cooked rice or luncheon meat at room temperature; refrigerate leftovers in shallow containers within two hours and preferably eat by the next day. Remove nori and reheat filling to 74°C.
Before you cook
Refrigerate cooked rice and luncheon meat within two hours at 4°C or colder. Avoid leaving rice at room temperature; preferably eat leftover musubi by the next day, reheating filling to 74°C. Check wheat/soy in sauce, sesame in oil and furikake, and possible fish/egg in furikake. Mirin contains alcohol, which may not fully evaporate in cooking.
Allergens: wheat and soy (soy sauce, depending on brand), sesame (sesame oil and some furikake), fish/seafood and egg may occur in furikake; read product labels, luncheon meat and mirin products may have other declared allergens
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