Uncle_Retardo: [Spam Musubi with Kimchi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeic56g3nWk) by Make Food. Eat Food.
*Spam is one of those ingredients that you either love or hate. In the US, Spam has a bad rep as being mystery meat or poor people’s food due to its WWII history. However, outside the US, like in South Korea, Spam is considered a classy gift with elaborate gift boxes.*
*I like Spam, but, only in small amounts. The salt content, even in the Low Sodium Spam, can sometimes be a bit overwhelming. My favorite way to prepare Spam is Spam musubi.*
*Spam musubi is a popular snack and lunch food in Hawaii. At the root of it, it’s cooked Spam, rice, a slightly sweet sauce and nori. There’s a number of different ingredients you can add to it, like egg, furikake, or kimchi. You can slice the Spam thicker, use more/less rice, it’s up to you.*
*There’s a mold you can purchase to make musubi, but the small Spam can works perfectly…plus I don’t like purchasing single use kitchen tools.*
**Ingredients:**
* 1 small can of Spam sliced into four ¼” slices
* 2 cups of cooked rice
* Four 2” strips of nori
* Kimchi
* ¼ cup of sugar
* ¼ cup of soy sauce
* ¼ cup of mirin
**Directions:**
1. Make rice over stovetop or in a rice cooker. Set aside and keep warm
2. Mix sugar, soy sauce and mirin in a small bowl until sugar has dissolved. Set aside.
3. Heat approximately ½ tbsp of oil in a frying pan. Pan fry Spam slices until browned on both sides.
4. Brush sauce mixture on both sides of the Spam and continue to fry until slightly caramelized. Remove from pan and set aside.
5. Wash and dry the Spam can. Line the inside with plastic wrap. Pack rice into the can so it’s about ⅓” thick.
6. If you’re using kimchi, place a layer of kimchi on top of the rice.
7. Place a slice of the fried Spam on top of the kimchi. Gather the excess plastic wrap around the top of the Spam and continue to pack down. Pull out the musubi and set aside. Repeat with the remaining slices of Spam.
8. Lay down a strip of nori on your work surface. Unwrap a Spam and rice block and center it on top of nori. Fold the nori tightly around the musubi and seal with a dab of water.
9. Repeat with remaining musubis and enjoy!
**Notes:**
If you like more sauce, brush some sauce on the rice block before you place the kimchi or Spam. You can also warm up the remaining sauce and use it as a dipping sauce.
If you’re using kimchi, you can also finely mince the kimchi, squeeze out the excess juice and layer it on top of the rice.
