SPAM MUSUBI RECIPE

Ingredients:

4 cups uncooked Japanese sushi rice

4 cups water

5 sheets sushi-nori (seaweed)

1 can SPAM, SPAM LOW SODIUM, or SPAM Lite

1/4 cup soy sauce

1/4 cup sugar 

1/4 cup sweet rice wine (mirin)

Furukaki seasoning

A SPAM Musubi Maker.

A SPAM Slicer if you have one.

Yields about 10 musubis

Cooking Instructions:

• Cook rice in rice cooker. If no rice cooker is available, put rice and water into a large heavy saucepan. Heat water and rice until boiling then immediately turn down and simmer for approximately 20-25 mins. or until soft and water is evaporated. 
• Boil soy sauce, sugar and rice wine. After it boils, turn off flame. 
• Cut SPAM into 1/4 in. wide slices or use a SPAM Slicer if you have one. Fry in pan. Soak fried SPAM in soy sauce mixture. 
• Line a SPAM Musubi Maker with sushi nori so that both sides stick straight up. Spread cooked rice across bottom of SPAM Musubi Maker, on top of nori - 1/4 inch high. 
• Sprinkle furukaki on top of rice. Place two pieces of SPAM in SPAM Musubi Maker on top of rice. SPAM should cover most of the length of the SPAM Musubi Maker  Spread more cooked rice on top of spam - 1/4 in. high. 
• Sprinkle furukaki on top of rice. Fold over one side of the nori. Use musubi maker insert to press down on top of nori, rice and SPAM. Fold over other side of nori and press down. 
• Remove musubi log from SPAM Musubi Maker. Cut to your desired length.

Enjoy so let's kaukau now!!  Posting this makes me hungry!!  :D

Misoyaki Butterfish Recipe

Ingredients:

4 pieces butterfish aka black cod aka sabelfish filets
1⁄3 Cup sake
1⁄3 Cup sweet mirin
2⁄3 Cup sugar
1 Cup white miso paste
1 inch grated ginger root
2 inches minced fine green onion


Instructions:

To make the misoyaki marinade, bring sake, mirin and sugar and ginger to a boil for 5 minutes.
Reduce to a simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and whisk in miso until well incorporated. Allow to cool.
Generously marinade butterfish in misoyaki marinade for 48-72 hours.
Pre-heat oven at 450 and bake fish for 5-8 minutes.
When fish is almost cooked broil for an additional 2-3 minutes until well caramelized. Make sure you watch the fish closely since it can burn quickly.
Add green onion and serve with steamed hot white rice!

Let's kaukau enjoy!!  :)