My new friend, Jeremy introduced me to genuine Hawaiian
food. He’s a self-proclaimed foodie from
Hawaii. It was love at first sight. I really love how easy and quick to come up
with this dish at home. All the
ingredients are in the pantry. It takes
no trips to stores and no time to make at all.
It’s always gratifying to see these disappear from the table at any
party.
The first time I made it, I used a package of imitation spam
I found from the pantry. Over the phone,
Jeremy asked me “how poor are you?”
Supposedly spam was originally designed to be a meat substitute for the
poor during famine times. If I had to
buy imitation spam, I’d be pretty poor!!!
And he thinks he is funny. But
seriously, for the purpose of the film, I used real spam. What’s a spam musubi without real spam,
right?
Jokes aside, thanks Jeremy!!!
Seaweed sheets
4 sheets
Steamed rice, cooled
650 g
Furikake 1 tablespoon
Spam 1 package
B Ingredients
Soy sauce
1 tablespoon
Mirin
3 tablespoon
Chopped scallion 1
tablespoon
Directions:
1. Cut spam into 8 equal portion strips. Heat up a small frying pan.
2. Depending on what kind of frying pan, add the little oil
to the pan, add the spam strips to pan and brown all four sides, about 2
minutes per side. Add the soy sauce and
mirin, cook until thicken like syrup consistency. Remove from heat and add the chopped
scallion.
3. Heat a flat griddle to toast the sheets of seaweed, about
30 seconds per side. Spread a thin layer
of steamed rice onto the seaweed, leave a ¼ inch gap with no rice on the short
side of the seaweed.
4. Place two spam strips onto the rice to the side without
gap, sprinkle some furikake, then roll up from the spam side gently. Press firm after the spam musubi is rolled up,
5. Cut the spam musubi into 3-4 sections and arrange on
plate to serve.
Serving: 4-6
