If you love spam musubis, then you need to try this recipe! A Spam and rice bake is basically a deconstructed spam musubi. It’s perfect for sharing and has the best ratio of rice to spam.
A Deconstructed Spam Musubi
A Spam and rice bake is the ‘lazy’ version of a spam musubi. It consists of a layer of rice (you can also use sushi rice), topped with glazed cubed spam, sprinkled with furikake, and drizzled with mayo. Broil it in the oven until the mayo bubbles, and it’s ready to enjoy. Once these flavors blend, its so delicious! For breakfast add an egg or avocado and wrap it in small nori sheets! This recipe is perfect for parties too, requiring less effort than wrapping musubis individually.
Spam in Hawaii
If you’ve ever visited Hawaii, you’ve probably tried or at least heard of spam musubi. It’s a local favorite—a delicious combo of spam, usually soaked in teriyaki sauce, and rice, all wrapped up in nori. Growing up in Oahu, every family had their way to make it, you can find mine here. Sauces are different or the ratio could be different making it super unique!
How to Eat Spam
I know a lot of people haven’t tried spam before and don’t consider it to be the first meat they choose. In Hawaii, Spam is eaten cooked for breakfast! Most of the time you don’t need to add much too it except maybe ketchup and shoyu. A popular breakfast would be Spam, eggs, and rice. Some folks like to add a teriyaki glaze to spam but it’s up to your own preference.
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Spam & Rice Bake
Equipment
- 1 8x8 pan
Ingredients
- 2 cans spam cubed
- 4 cups white rice cooked
- Furikake
- kewpie mayo
- green onions
- avocado optional
- nori optional
Sauce
- ½ cup shoyu low sodium
- 2 Tbsp ketchup
- 3 Tbsp sugar
Instructions
- While your rice is cooking, cut your spam into cubes. Cook in skillet on medium heat until brown (about 4 min)
- When spam is cooking, make your sauce. Add all shoyu, sugar, and ketchup together and mix until sugar is dissolved. Adjust to your own taste (too sweet add shoyu, too salty add sugar or ketchup)
- Once spam is cooked, turn heat to low and pour sauce all over. Make sure all pieces are coated then once sauce starts bubbling and becoming thicker, remove from heat.
- When rice is done, add about 1 inch to 1½ inch layer to bottom of pan and flatten. Layer with a furikake, then add the cooked spam on top in an even layer. Sprinkle more furikake on top then drizzle kewpie mayo.
- Bake on 450º F or broil on high for about 5 minutes until mayo bubbles.
- Top with green onions! serve with nori and avocado! enjoy!