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Spam Musubi with Egg

Hawaii’s iconic spam musubi gets the breakfast treatment with the addition of gently cooked scrambled egg in this recipe.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Snack
Cuisine Hawaiian
Servings 8 musubis

Ingredients
  

For the rice

  • 2 cup sushi rice
  • 4 tbsp rice vinegar
  • 2 tsp granulated sugar

For the teriyaki glaze

  • ¼ cup soy sauce
  • 3 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp sake
  • ¼ cup water

For the musubis

  • 1 can spam sliced into eight even pieces
  • 4 eggs
  • 2½ tbsp neutral oil such as canola
  • 2 sheets nori sliced lengthwise into 8 strips, 2" wide

Instructions
 

Make the rice

  • Cook the rice according to the rice's instructions or your favorite cooking method.
  • While the rice is cooking, mix the rice vinegar and granulated sugar in a small bowl until the sugar is dissolved. You can microwave the mixture for 20-30 seconds to help dissolve the sugar.
  • Once the rice is finished, and while still warm, add the vinegar mixture to the rice. Gently stir the rice to distribute the vinegar mixture. Use a rice paddle if you have one.

Make the teriyaki sauce

  • Mix the soy sauce, brown sugar, sake, and water in a small bowl until the sugar is dissolved.

Make the omelets

  • Add the eggs to a medium bowl with a pinch of salt and scramble them until little to no white remains.
  • Add ¼ tbsp of the oil to a nonstick pan over low heat. Once heated, add half of the scrambled eggs to the pan. Tilt the pan around to evenly distribute the eggs into one thin layer. Cover the pan and cook the eggs for 2-3 minutes until just done and very slightly browned. Once done, remove the omlet from the pan.
    Cooked scrambled egg
  • Make the second omelete by repeating the same process for the second half of the scrambled eggs.
  • Slice each omelet into four long strips, for a total of eight strips of omelet.
    Cooked and sliced scambled egg

Fry the spam

  • To the same nonstick pan, add 2 tbsp of the oil and heat over medium-high heat.
  • Once the oil is hot, add the sliced spam to the pan and fry for two minutes until browned. Flip and fry for two more minutes.
  • Add the teriyaki sauce directly to the pan and fry for 2-3 more minutes, flipping the spam one time. Once the spam is browned and the sauce is reduced, remove the spam from the pan and add to a plate.

Assemble the musubis

  • Place down a sheet of plastic wrap and lay the musubi mold (or spam can) on top of the plastic wrap.  Add a small handful of rice (about ⅛ of your cooked rice) to the musubi mold and use the press (or your fingers) to gently but firmly pack the rice.
    Rice pressed into spam musubi mold
  • Remove the mold from the rice and lay the omelet on top, folding the omelet strip over once.
    Egg laid on top of rice
  • Lay a slice of spam on top of the egg.
    Spam laid on top of egg
  • Place the musubi on top of one strip of nori and wrap the nori around the sandwich with the seam side on the bottom.  Use a bit of water on the nori to close the seal.
    Musubi wrapped in nori
  • Repeat the assembly process for all musubis, and then serve right away or store in your refrigerate for later.
Keyword Spam