Pacific & Hawaiian · Starter
Spam Musubi
- Easy
- 30 min
- roughly 1 of 4 for cost
Leads with a briny, maritime salinity, a sweet edge rounding the corners.
Ingredients
- 1 can Spam, sliced in 8 even planks
- 3 cups cooked short-grain rice, warm, lightly salted
- Glaze: 2 tbsp soy + 2 tbsp sugar + 1 tbsp mirin
- 4 nori sheets, halved into wide bands
- The musubi mold, or the cleaned Spam can itself, the original tool
Allergen screen
Found: gluten · soy · alcohol
Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.
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Method
- Fry the Spam planks until crisp-edged; add the glaze and let it lacquer both sides, 1 min. 1 min
- Press warm rice into the mold (or the can, plastic-lined) in a firm 2cm layer.
- Glazed Spam on top; press again; unmold the brick.
- Wrap the nori band around the middle, seam down, sealing with a damp finger. Serve at room temperature; gas stations set the standard here, genuinely.
At the Table
- The Pour
- Riesling or Grenache
- Also Right
- Cru Beaujolais
- From the Taps
- Farmhouse saison
- Zero-Proof
- Cloudy apple juice, chilled
Pork loves fruit and gentle sweetness: orchard-note whites and low-tannin reds flatter it where heavy oak flattens.
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