Spam Musubi

Ingredients

• Rice

  Brown, Instant - Safeway

  1 ½ cup dry or 300g

• Sesame seeds

  Seeds, whole, dried

  1 tbsp or 9g

• Toasted Seaweed Nori

  Yamamotoyama - Walmart

  1 sheets or 1g

• Luncheon meat, pork with ham, minced, canned, includes Spam (Hormel)

  100g

• Vegetable oil

  Natreon canola, high stability, non trans, high oleic (70%)

  2 tsp or 9g

• Soy sauce

  Regular sodium, Shoyu

  1 tbsp or 16g

• Rice wine vinegar

  1 tbsp or 15g

• Sugar

  White, granulated sugar

  1 tbsp or 13g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  1 tbsp or 15g

• Potato Starch, Katakuri-Ko

  Katakuri-Ko, Wel-pac

  2 tbsp or 20g

Directions

1. Cook rice according to your rice cooker instruction or see the recipe *7
2. When the rice been cooked, sprinkle toasted sesame seeds into the rice and combine them.
3. Cut the nori sheet into 6 strips and set aside.
4. Open the spam tin and carefully wash the empty tin for later use.
5. Slice the spam ham into 6 slices of even thickness, lengthwise.
6. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan over medium heat.
7. Add the sliced Spam. Cook and brown one side for about 2-3 min.
8. Flip them all and cook and brown thoroughly for another 2-3 min. *8
9. Turn the heat off and transfer the spam slices on to a kitchen paper lined plate. Set aside.
10. Clean and remove all the oil left in the frying pan and add all sauce ingredients into the pan over low heat.
11. Stir continuously and when the sauce is thickened, put the Spam slices back into the frying pan and coat the spam with the sauce. Turn the heat off.
12. Line the washed spam tin with cling wrap and put 1/6 of the cooked rice into the tin.
13. Press the rice down with a Japanese pestle or with your hand.
14. Remove the pressed rice with cling wrap by pulling out the end of cling wrap.
15. Open up the cling wrap. Top with a fried spam. *9
16. Place the nori strip over on the centre of the spam and wrap over the spam and rice ball (musubi).
17. Tack both ends of nori strip under the Spam musubi.
18. Recipe by: Shihoko | Chopstick Chronicles (source: https://www.chopstickchronicles.com/spam-musubi/)