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Spam musubi

Spam musubi (made in rice cooker)

This is a rice cooker recipe take on the beloved spam musubi. It has a sweet savory sauce with the salty spam that is a crowd favorite.
Prep Time:5 minutes
Rice cooker time:55 minutes
Course: Appetizer, bento, Breakfast, Main Course, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine: Japanese
Keyword: easy rice recipe, musubi recipe, rice cooker recipe, spam musubi, spam musubi recipe, spam recipe
Servings: 4 people

Equipment

  • 1 Rice cooker
  • 1 Spam musubi mold or onigiri mold

Ingredients

  • 1.5 cups uncooked rice 2 rice cooker cups
  • 1 cup filtered water 1.25 rice cooker cups for cooking rice
  • 4 tbsp soy sauce
  • 3 tbsp mirin
  • 3 tbsp sake
  • 1 tbsp dashi powder
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1/2 can spam 6oz spam

Topping

  • 1 stalk chopped green onion
  • 3 tbsp furikake

Instructions

  • Wash and drain rice
    drain rice
  • Add all ingredients to rice - soy sauce, mirin, sake, dashi powder, sugar, and filtered water
    add ingredients
  • Mix the ingredients until combined
    mix ingredients
  • Add spam on top of rice
    add spam
  • Cook rice in a rice cooker at the usual cooking time. My rice cooker cooks rice in 55 minutes
    cook rice
  • Once rice is done, mix well
    mix rice well
  • Add chopped green onion and furikake (optional)
    add furikake
  • Mix well and serve as is in a bowl similar to spam fried rice.
  • Or you can make it into onigiri triangles and take it as a snack! You can also use spam musubi molds for a more authentic spam musubi look! It is still good at room temperature, but I will not leave it longer than a few hours as it may go bad
    onigiri mold
  • Serve and enjoy!
    serve and enjoy