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Spicy spam Musubi

Spicy Spam Musubi

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Ingredients
  

  • 1 can Spam
  • 6 tsp. sugar use more or less to taste, based on the saltiness of your soy sauce
  • 2 tsp. soy sauce
  • 3 sheets nori
  • Furikake
  • Shichimi togarashi or plain red pepper flakes
  • 6-8 shiso leaves
  • Hot cooked short-grain brown rice made from 2 cups uncooked rice

Instructions
 

  • Mix sugar with soy sauce.
  • Slice your can of Spam into eight or more slices. Pan-fry in a nonstick skillet for about 2-3 minutes until it starts to brown. Flip the Spam and drizzle soy sauce-sugar mixture on top. Continue to pan-fry until it reaches your desired level of caramelization and crispness.
  • Place a sheet of nori on a prep board and place your Spam musubi maker on top. (If you don't have a Spam musubi mold, simply shape the rice by hand into oblongs, top with shiso leaf and Spam, and wrap with a sheet or thin strip of nori, depending on how you want your Spam musubi to look and taste.
  • Fill your mold with rice and press firmly with musubi mold lid. This is important - if you don't pack the rice firmly enough, your musubi will fall apart. Add more rice and pack until the mold is about 1/3 full.
  • Sprinkle rice with furikake and shichimi togarashi and top with Spam slices in a single layer. Add shiso leaves in a single layer. Finally, top with more rice and press firmly.
  • Remove musubi from mold and wrap with overhanging nori. Slice and eat.