🇫🇲 Micronesian Cuisine

Spam Musubi

Spam and Rice Cake

Prep Time 10 min

Servings 6

Difficulty Easy

Calories 252 kcal

Grilled spam on pressed rice wrapped with nori seaweed. A hugely popular Pacific island snack.

Ingredients

1 can spam (beef), sliced
3 cups cooked sushi rice
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp sugar
Nori seaweed sheets
1 tbsp rice vinegar
1 tsp sesame oil
Plastic wrap

Instructions

1 Slice spam into 6 even pieces.
2 Mix soy sauce and sugar, marinate spam 5 minutes.
3 Pan-fry spam slices until caramelized on both sides.
4 Season rice with rice vinegar and sesame oil.
5 Press rice into rectangular blocks using the spam can as mold.
6 Place spam on rice and wrap with nori strip.

Did You Know?

Spam became a staple across the Pacific during WWII and remains one of the most consumed canned foods in Micronesia.