Spam, Eggs, and Rice is a flavorful local favorite from Hawaii. It features a bed of fluffy Japanese rice with furikake, a yolky egg, and fried Spam in a homemade teriyaki sauce.
Rice Stovetop instructions - Place rice in a saucepan and rinse the rice in the sink until the water runs clear, then drain. Combine washed rice and filtered water in a medium saucepan. Bring the rice to a low boil, then reduce the heat to low. Cover the pot and simmer for 20 minutes or until the water is absorbed. Remove from the heat and let sit covered for 10 minutes. Fluff the rice with a fork.
2 cup Japanese rice
Rice cooker instructions - Place rice in the electric rice cooker pot and rinse the rice in the sink until the water runs clear, then drain. Combine rice and filtered water in the pot and cook per the rice cooker directions.
1⅓ cup filtered water
Teriyaki sauce
While the rice cooks, make the teriyaki sauce. Add soy sauce, sake, mirin, and brown sugar to a bowl and whisk the ingredients. Set aside.
1½ tablespoon soy sauce, ½ tablespoon sake, 2 tablespoon mirin, 1 teaspoon brown sugar
Spam and Eggs
Cut the Spam lengthwise into 8 equal slices. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, cook Spam slices 3-5 minutes or until caramelized, flipping halfway through. Add teriyaki sauce and cook for 1-2 minutes or until the slices are coated.
1 12 oz canned Low Sodium Spam
In a separate pan, cook the eggs while the Spam cooks. Heat butter in a skillet over low-medium heat. Once the butter is melted and slightly foamy, crack the egg onto a skillet and sprinkle salt and pepper on top. Cook for about 2 to 2½ minutes until the egg whites go from clear to white and edges start to crisp.
1½ tablespoon butter, 4 eggs
While the eggs and spam finish cooking, distribute rice to bowls or plates. Then add eggs and Spam, and sprinkle with furikake. Serve with ketchup, Sriracha, soy sauce, or hot sauce.
ketchup, Sriracha, hot sauce, furikake
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Top Tips
Enjoy the freshly cooked rice, eggs, and Spam right away for the best flavor.
Make the teriyaki sauce the night before to streamline the recipe. You can also make enough for the week to use with other dishes.
If you don't have mirin and sake, you can use soy sauce and sugar. The flavor will still be good and the sauce will still caramelize.
If your pan is too small to cook all of the Spam at once, cook 4 pieces first, set them aside, then cook the remaining 4 pieces. Once all of the pieces are cooked. add them all back then drizzle the teriyaki sauce on all of them. This will ensure all of the pieces are caramelized in the teriyaki sauce without burning the sauce.
Wet the rice paddle before serving the rice. This prevents the rice from sticking.
Use regular sugar as a substitute for brown sugar.