American

Spam Musubi

Name: Spam Musubi
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 12 oz can canned luncheon meat (Spam); 3 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp brown sugar; 3 cups, cooked sushi rice; 2 tbsp rice vinegar; 1 tsp sesame seeds; 4 nori sheets

Nora @nora_mpls

Spam Musubi is American home cooking, eaten at breakfast and lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Easy Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 12 oz can canned luncheon meat (Spam)
3 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp brown sugar
3 cups, cooked sushi rice
2 tbsp rice vinegar
1 tsp sesame seeds
4 nori sheets

How to cook it

Cook the sushi rice according to package directions, then fold in the rice vinegar while warm and let cool slightly.
Slice the Spam into 8 planks and fry in a dry skillet over medium heat until browned, about 2 minutes per side.
Whisk the soy sauce and brown sugar in a small bowl, add to the pan, and simmer until it glazes the Spam, about 1 minute per side.
Press a block of rice into a musubi mold (or an empty Spam can with both ends removed) set on a strip of nori, top with a slice of glazed Spam, and press to compact.
Fold the nori up and around the block, sealing the end with a dab of water, and repeat with the remaining rice, Spam, and nori.
Scatter with sesame seeds and serve, or wrap for a lunchbox.

Watch how to cook Spam Musubi

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A American lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Spam Musubi, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

What it is eaten with
- Baked Potato
  
  60 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Spam Musubi carries gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Spam Musubi
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Fish	No
Sesame	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 550 kcal
Protein: 19 g
Carbs: 48 g
Fat: 31 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 9 g
Sodium: 1180 mg
Saturated fat: 12 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Spam Musubi takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast and lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.