Spam seaweed rice.

Spam musubi is a popular Hawaiian snack that can be found everywhere on the islands, and I mean everywhere – food markets, street side food carts, convenient stores. So it’s not technically a Korean dish but one of my friend told me Koreans are love this food.  They make with kimchi or with ramen noodle soup or with  kimbap. It’s an easy, simple, and crunchy seafood  flavored dish. If you eat these with a seaweed salad or cucumber salad would be perfect.

Good luck  and enjoy 😉

Ingredients:

• 1 can of Spam ( 12 oz )
• 3 cup cooked  sushi rice or white rice
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp Mirin
• 2 tbsp brown or white sugar
• Furikake or roasted sesame seeds
• 3 Nori sheets ( roasted seaweed sheets )

Directions:

1. Cook rice according to package directions. let cool slightly.
2. Cut the Spam into 6 equal slices. Set aside.

3. Cut the nori sheets in half. You want the width of the halves to be close to the length of the Spam.

4. In a small bowl, mix together the soy sauce, brown sugar, and mirin.

5. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Brown the side of the spam and flip. Add the soy sauce mixture to the skillet and cook until the sauce is reduced to a nice syrup. Take off the heat and set aside.

6. Have a small bowl of water nearby. Moisten your hands the water will prevent the rice from sticking to your hands. Take 1/4 cup of rice and quickly form into a rectangular patty similar to the shape of the spam slab. Or you can put the rice into spam can. I used this method before it  worked  very well 😉7. Place the rice in the middle of the nori sheet. Sprinkle with furikake or sesame seeds on the rice. Place one spam on top of the sprinkled rice. Wrap one end of the nori as snugly around the stack. Overlap the other end of the nori around the stack. Smear a few grains of cooked rice along the closing edge to serve as the “glue” for the roll.  

8. Serve with a seaweed salad, or cabbage salad, or cucumber salad.

Notes: The furikake is a savory rice topping and is used in the musubi for the crunch factor. If you don’t have that on hand, you can sprinkle roasted sesame seeds OR you can just do without. 

Enjoy 😉