Do you wasabi some of this SPAM SUSHI ?
This month, Hawaiian cookbook author Muriel Miura released a collection of recipes entirely devoted to everybody’s favorite processed pork product, entitled Hawaii Cooks with Spam
From the article:
More Spam per capita is sold in Hawaii than anywhere else in the United States. Grocery stores in the Aloha State cater to their customers with a wide variety of the product: bacon Spam, turkey Spam, hot and spicy… . “This is the meat for everybody,” says Miura. “It’s the favorite meat source for people in Hawaii now.”
Miura, who is Japanese-American, has her kitchen set up to demonstrate how she makes a maki sushi roll. Maki is sushi wrapped in a seaweed sheet, called nori. California rolls are a kind of maki that calls for crab. Miura’s maki, however, uses Spam.
“I have some steamed rice… seasoned with vinegar and sugar,” says Miura. “Some homemakers add mirin, the Japanese sweet wine.”
Miura covers the flat piece of nori with rice, and then coats the rice in mayonnaise. She says people in Hawaii put mayo on everything.
“And the Japanese like to have mayo with their cucumbers,” she notes. Sliced cucumber is the next ingredient to go into her sushi roll, followed by spicy wasabi paste, and then, finally: “I put two strips of Spam right across,” says Miura.
She rolls the ingredients together into a fat caterpillar of nori with all the ingredients inside.
Would you eat it? Would you be excited to? Or would I have to blindfold you and smash it past your mouth?
Me, I’d not only try Spam Sushi— I bet I’d probably really like it. But I’ve also never been all that discerning when it comes to trying new things (and liking gross-ish ones).
For the full article— including the precise recipe for Spam Sushi— click here.
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