Spam is a canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
In Okinawa, Japan, SPAM is quite popular. It is expensive if you live in the main land of Japan (Honshu), but in Okinawa Spam is available at relatively less expensive price. Moreover, the cooking that used spam is available at not only a family but also a restaurant and the convenience store in Okinawa. Spam is even used in the traditional Okinawan dish.
SPAM is very famous in not only Okinawa but also Hawaii and Guam, and it is a popular cooking ingredient. In Hawaii and Guam, there is the spam food that matched with Japanese style taste due to numerous numbers of Japanese tourists.
In the U.S, SPAM was supplied to U.S. Army during the times of the Vietnam War and WW II because it is preservative and reasonable. There is a story that American soldier are tired of SPAM due to its simple taste.
Today, I would like to introduce a recipe of SPAM rice ball which is popular in Hawaii and Okinawa.
INGREDIENTS (2 rice ball)
SPAM
2 eggs
Dried Seaweed (NORI) 1 sheet
Rice (as much as you want)
Let’s Start Cooking!!
Slice SPAM (each 1 / 4 inch), cut dried seaweed about 1.5-inch, and then beat eggs
Bake the both sides of the spam until it turns to brown (do not put oil on the pan)
Make an omelet with the frying pan (make its size as same as the size of two sliced spam）
Put rice on a wrap, hold it, and make it like a bale
Put an omelet (sliced into a half) and SPAM on the rice
Surround them with Dried seaweed and hold it!
COMPLETE~☆
