The Best Homemade Spam Musubi

Spam musubis are a Hawaii staple! Many people love to take them for lunch at the beach or as a snack for a long hike. You can find them at almost every convenience store or grocery store hot food section on the island. However, they are much harder to come by outside of Hawaii. Here’s a recipe on how to make the best spam musubi at home!

Note: This recipe does require you to use a musubi mold. Make sure the mold is non-stick. I use this one on Amazon.

Spam Musubi Ingredients

• Spam musubi mold
• 1 can of spam
• 1/2 cup shoyu
• 1/2 cup sugar
• Nori (seaweed)
• 2 cups uncooked short-grain white rice
• Optional: furikake for topping

How to Make Spam Musubis

• Cook rice according to package instructions.
• In a small bowl mix 1/2 cup shoyu with 1/2 cup sugar. Set aside.
• Cut spam into slices ( you can get about 8-10 slices out of 1 can of spam)
• Fry Spam on medium high heat. You don’t need to oil the pan. 

• While the spam is frying, shape your rice using the musubi mold. Loosely pack the rice in the mold and fill it to the top. Push down firmly, make sure rice in mold is even. Push rice out through bottom. 

• Remove excess oil from pan and blot the spam with a paper towel
• Turn stove to low
• Pour shoyu-sugar mix over spam still on hot pan, flip
• Make sure all sides are coated with sauce
• If needed, toss additional sugar in to caramelize shoyu mixture.

• Pour a bit of sauce on rice then top the rice with furikake.
• Place spam on rice. 

• If you like nori covering your entire musubi, half the nori, but if you want a strip of nori in the middle, half the nori and then half it again length-wise
• Pick up your rice with spam and place it on the chopping board. 
• Bring nori over spam rough side down and wrap the nori around the spam and rice.
• Dip you finger in water and use it to seal the nori.

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