Three years ago, I did a post on making spam musubi – traditional style – mounds of rice formed into rectangle cuboids, cooked spam slices on top, and wrapped with slightly wide nori. It would be good but take at least 30 minutes from start to finish, not including the time it took to cook the rice. The minimum yield would be 5 spam musubis, to make it worth the time and effort.
After Jalna’s pal Jenny’s post of “Origami Onigiri” showing how to make spam musubi, I tried it and LOVED it! SO easy, so fast, and I can use whatever rice I still have in the pot instead of making a full batch of rice. Here are my step by steps:
Cut a slit halfway up sheet of nori 
Toast nori for better taste 
Rice on top with cut below 
Loaded with innards 
1st fold up 
2nd fold up 
Last fold and Ready to eat! 
Tulip, my preferred “spam” alternate with Vietnamese pickles 
Alternate fillings – tuna/mayo and takuan, yum!
I hope you give this a try when you are craving a spam (or alternative tuna/mayo) musubi and just want to make one or two. Super fast, super easy, and variations can be whatever you want. These “pockets” allow for messier fillings that behave.
Thanks Jennie and Jalna!
This looks wonderful and my mouth is watering although I can’t eat rice anymore. Sigh…
Oh no! I can’t imagine not eating rice.
I love spam musubi, homemade is much better than bought out most of the time especially when a little soy sauce and sugar are added to the spam in the frying pan. I hadn’t heard of the tuna mayo filling but I bet surimi would be good as well. Many thanks .
Surimi – yum! With crab, shrimp or fishcake. The beauty of this musubi is that the fillings are contained in the nori folds. Thank you for stopping by!
Looks delicious!
AND easy!
For much of my life, I thought spam was a food poor people ate who couldn’t afford other things. Then I married into the Asian culture and realize that there is a huge spam following out there and there was more than one variety of spam… way more.
I enjoyed spam musubi during my time in your state among other things. It was definitely a good comfort sort of food.
Oh, we love Spam in Hawaii. We used to have Spam festivals and competitions before Covid. Easy to carry around and eat later. And surprisingly enough, our 7-11 stores have really good spam musubis because they use pretty good rice.
All your musubis look so good!!!
Thanks, Jalna! Would look even better if you took da pictures.
you like tulip spam better? Hmmm, I think I have a can in the pantry. Not really a spam person unless it’s cooked well (crisp) in a spam musubi. With Vietnamese pickles? Boy, gotta try that too.
I love tuna mayo with the takuan! That’s my go to when I make this type of musubi.
thanks for the idea!
I DO like the Tulip brand better. Not as greasy or something. But the can is smaller so gotta adjust.