Homemade Spam

This Easy Homemade Spam Recipe is not only easy to make, it also a great way to add special ingredients to make your homemade luncheon meat interesting from adding spices, cheeses, and it’s even useful for hiding vegetables from kids. All you need are ground pork, white pepper, sugar, fish sauce, curing salt, cornstarch and cold water. Give everything a nice mix, place into molds, steamed and it’s ready to be gifted or sold. An affordable way to give gifts for special holidays to making these diy spam to start a small business. This deliciously easy copycat recipe is sure to amaze your tastebuds.

Homemade Spam Recipe :

Ingredients :

• 1 kilo ground pork
• 1 teaspoon white pepper
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• 1 teaspoon curing salt
• 4 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 cup cold water
• Oil for frying

Steps :

1. In a bowl, mix ground pork, white pepper, sugar, fish sauce, curing salt, and cornstarch.

2. Pour in the cold water, continue mixing until it looks really mushy. Place these into a mold. Fill almost to the top. Flatten and level by tapping it on the table.

3. Cover the top of the molds with aluminum foil. Refrigerate for at least 6 to 24 hours to cure the meat. Place in a steamer and steam for 30 to 40 minutes.

4. Take it out to cool completely. Once cooled, take it off the pan and slice. Heat some oil in a pan and fry and flip until both sides are slightly golden. 

5. Serve while it’s still hot !

Spam, What is it?

Spam is a brand of luncheon meat product that usually describes the original spam recipe as a mix of ham and pork. Introduced in 1937, it was first called ‘spiced ham’ before it was trademarked by an executive from Hormel Foods. This product was introduced to the masses as an inexpensive food that can be easily prepared by baking or frying during the Great Depression. Though it did not get recognition until after World War II, where Allied soldiers consumed 100 million pounds. Now there are more than 10 varieties of SPAM.

How to eat spam? There are a lot of different ways to enjoy spam. Some are distinctly known for being popularized by a country like the filling Spam Musubi from Hawaii, the Spam Sandwich which gained its popularity from social media, other popular versions are Fried Spam, Baked Spam, Spam fries, preparing Spam with eggs, adding Spam in soups, stews, stir fries, or fried rice. Though because of how expensive it is now you can also do these recipes using spam substitutes like other brands of luncheon meats from brands such as Prem, Maling, Purefoods, and the Korean Luncheon meat.

How to make this “Poor man’s Spam”

Making spam from scratch is easy. All you need to do is mix ground pork, if you can ask the butcher to make sure it’s finely ground to ensure a smoother looking spam. Or you can blend the pork at home with a meat safe grinder / blender. Mix this with white pepper, sugar, fish sauce, and the preservative-curing salt, to mix this all together 

How to fry Spam? Simply slice the cooled down luncheon meat as thin or as thick as you like. The thinner it is the crispier the outcome is. Add a bit of oil in a pan at medium heat. Place in the luncheon meat slices and let this cook for 3 – 5 minutes on each side or until both sides have browned. Enjoy as is or with a side of rice and sunny side eggs.

Questions

• How do you cook spam ?

Want to upgrade your usual sliced luncheon meat?  Try the popular Hawaiian favorite-homemade spam musubi recipe:

1. To make this simple saute the sliced luncheon meat as usual.
2. Take this out to make the delectably sweet and salty sauce made of sugar, soy sauce, and oyster sauce. Let this simmer in the same pan as you fried the spam.
3. Once simmering, toss in the spam, making sure it’s all covered with the sauce then take it out. 
4. Take a mold or form a flat rice ball, top with the sauced up spam, wrap a nori strip in the middle and it’s ready!
5. Or you can simply toss chopped spam in your usual fried rice especially pineapple fried rice to have a nice piece of spam on every bite.

• How to make Homemade Spam without Curing Salt ( pink salt )?
  • You can use regular salt but it will not preserve as well as curing salt.
  • Other substitutes can be saltpeter or potassium nitrate.
  • Or make your own prague powder by mixing a pound of pure salt ( not iodine ) with 1 ounce of sodium nitrite.

• Using different meats

You can use different meats for this simple homemade spam recipe. If ground pork is not available or is not part of your diet. Use ground chicken for “Homemade Chicken Spam Recipe”, Turkey for “Homemade Turkey Spam Recipe”, Beef for “Homemade Beef Spam Recipe”, or you can even mix 2 to 3 different types of meats if you’d like. 

• How to make spam in a can ? 

While you can use a canning device to store the spam. For small businesses, you can simply place this in an airtight thick plastic with some of the sauce and seal this well with a sealer, candle or hair dryer.

Try our other Yummy Canned Good Recipes :

• Chicken Pastil ( a spicy Maguindanao delicacy )
• Homemade Strawberry Jam
• Homemade Tomato Paste
• Chili Garlic Oil
• Spanish-style Sardines Bangus in Olive oil

Homemade Spam Resipi ( Tagalog ) :

Mga Sangkap :

• 1 kilo giniling na baboy
• 1 kutsaritang puting paminta
• 2 kutsarang asukal
• 1 kutsarang patis
• 1 kutsaritang curing salt
• 4 kutsarang cornstarch
• 1 tasa malamig na tubig
• Mantika pang prito

Paano Lutuin :

1. Sa mangkok. Haluin ang giniling na baboy, puting paminta, asukal, patis, curing salt, at cornstarch.
2. Haluan din ito ng malamig na tubig hanggang mag mukhang mushy o malagkit. Ilagay sa mga molde. Punuan halos sa tuktok nito. Tapikin ang molde sa mesa para patagin.
3. Takpan ang itaas ng molde ng aluminum foil. Palamigin sa ref ng 6 hanggang 24 oras. Ilagay sa steamer at isteam ng 30 hanggang 40 na minuto.
4. Tanggalin at palamigin gao tanggalin sa molde at hiwain ng maninipis. Uminit ng mantika sa kawali, iprito at pag baliktarin hanggang mag kayumanggi ang bawat gilid.
5. Ihanda habang mainit pa !