I was watching travel channel a while back and they run a show about resorts in Hawaii. On one segment, they are showing a restaurant using SPAM for sushi and it gives me an idea on my next lunch – Onigiri with SPAM!
My wife is a Japanese and I love it when she makes Onigiri for me, it’s simple, and quick snack. So what is Onigiri? According to Wikipedia, Onigiri is a snack of Japanese rice formed into triangle or oval shapes and often wrapped in nori (edible seaweed).
So I slice up the SPAM (1-inch thick) and grilled it with Indonesian BBQ sauce (kecap manis) and Japanese eel sauce. The SPAM itself is really salty, so by using the Indonesia BBQ sauce which quite sweet, giving it a more moderate taste.
We formed the Onigiri with the SPAM in the middle of it and I went another step by grilling the Onigiri itself with lighter eel sauce. The result was really good and my sister end up eating 5 Onigiri on one go!
April 24th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
5 Onigiris? That is some extreme eating
April 24th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Ewdi, you managed to make spam look tasty!
April 25th, 2008 at 10:02 am
I honestly never like spam, but this way of cooking it added some sweetness to it, so it wasn’t as bad as i thought
August 23rd, 2009 at 8:21 pm
My grandmother is Okinawan and she makes, as we call them, “rice balls” for us whenever we go on long trips. The difference is that she uses pork chop in the middle of ours! What she does is chop up the pork chop into bite-size pieces, tosses the pork chop with fresh ginger and garlic and then sautes the pork chop mixture with 1/2 cup of Miso and 1/2 cup of sugar. That’s the type of rice ball I grew up with and that’s the recipe I’m passing on to my future children