Spam Musubi Without a Mold
This recipe is the most basic and simple way to make Spam musubi. I will take you through the cooking and assembly steps that will help you form a perfectly shaped musubi without needing a mold! If this is your first time making it, remember to be patient with yourself. It takes a few times to make the perfect musubi, but you will get there!
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Ingredients
- 1 can SPAM (25% less sodium)
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- ½ cup soy sauce
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup mirin
- 8 cups cooked white rice (use more or less to your preference)
- 3 sheets nori, cut into thirds (you will have 9 pieces total)
Instructions
Cooking Spam and Musubi Sauce
- Slice the Spam into 8 equal pieces
- In a pan, add oil and fry the Spam slices on medium heat
- Fry both side of each piece for one minute each, then set slices aside
- In a bowl, mix soy sauce, sugar and mirin together
- In the same pan, add the soy sauce mixture and let boil together
- Sauce is ready when you dip a spoon in the pan and the spoon is coated with the thickened sauce
- Turn off heat and get ready to assemble
Assembly
- Take a piece of cut nori and lay it on a flat surface on top of a sheet of cling wrap
- Wet your hands, the wetter your hands the less rice will stick
- Take a cup of cooked rice and press it firmly into a ball
- Once the rice has stuck together into a ball, it should be easy to shape into a rough rectangle the size of the Spam slice
- Take your thumb and press down the middle of the length of the rice rectangle to make an indent for the sauce
- Lay the rice on the middle of the nori strip, indent facing up
- Add a spoonful of sauce in the indent of the rice
- Take a piece of cooked Spam and put it in the sauce mixture, turn it over 4 times in sauce mixture
- Lay the Spam slice on top of rice
- Wrap the Spam and rice with the nori by folding the nori around the musubi
- Wrap it tightly with the cling wrap - this is how it will maintain its shape
- Repeat process 7 more times
- Enjoy!