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5 from 11 votes

Spam Fried Rice

This flavorful and delicious spam fried rice is incredibly easy and simple to put together and makes a quick one bowl cozy dinner when you're short on time.
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time25 minutes
Course: Main, Side
Cuisine: Chinese, Hawaiian
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 940kcal
Author: Joyce Lee

Ingredients

  • 3 cups rice
  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1 12 oz can spam (cut into ¼ inch cubes)
  • 1 cup frozen vegetables
  • 1 small onion (approx. ¼ cup diced)
  • 1 clove garlic

Scrambled Eggs

  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon oil

Sauce

Garnish

  • 1 stalk green onion

Instructions

Preparation

  • Oil your hand and break up the day-old rice into small pieces. Try to get them to small individual pieces if you can.
    Large clump of rice being broken up into smaller pieces in preparation for Chinese egg fried rice
  • In a small bowl, beat 3 large eggs with 1 teaspoon oil and set aside.
    Raw eggs beaten with a bit of oil in a glass bowl
  • In another small bowl, mix together 1 tablespoon oyster sauce and 3 tablespoons soy sauce (or fish sauce) and set aside.
    Oyster sauce and soy sauce mix together in a small glass bowl.
  • Finely mince or grate 1 clove garlic and set it aside.
  • and dice 1 small onion and set it aside.
    Finely diced onions on a cutting board.
  • Finely mince 1 stalk green onion and set aside for the end.
    Finely minced green onions on a cutting board.
  • Remove the spam from the can and dice them into ¼ inch cubes and set it aside.
    Spam slices diced into ¼ inch cubes

Make the Spam Fried Rice

  • Set a large skillet or wok over the stove and set it to medium heat.
  • Add a bit of oil and add in 1 tablespoon butter
  • Add in the spam, and toast it for 5 minutes until some of the oil renders out and it becomes a darker shade of red.
    Spam being fried in a skillet
  • Add the diced onions and soften it with the spam for about 4 minutes
    Toasting diced onions with spam in a frying pan
  • Add in 1 cup frozen vegetables and minced garlic and cook it for about 4 minutes until the vegetables have soften
    Softening frozen veggies with spam in frying pan
  • Push aside the vegetables and spam, and add a bit of oil again to the pan and add in the beaten egg and let it cook for about 30 seconds until it is about 50% cooked.
    Adding scrambled eggs to frying pan with spam and frozen veggies
  • Add the rice on top of the half-cooked eggs.
    Adding rice to frying pan for spam fried rice
  • Mix just the rice with the egg and cook it together until the egg is fully cooked and the rice and eggs look dry (not mushy). Approx 2-3 minutes.
    If there are still small chunks of rice, use the back of your spatula to break it up.
    Mixing egg with the rest of the spam and frozen veggies and rice in frying pan
  • Push the spam and vegetables back together and mix everything together.
  • Drizzle the sauce evenly over all the rice and stir everything together, until everything is evenly seasoned.
    Using wooden spoon to mix all the ingredients in frying pan for spam fried rice
  • Turn off the heat, mix in the green onions.
  • Enjoy!
    Spam fried rice in a green bowl with chopsticks and toasted sesame seeds

Notes

  • Great Way To Clean Out Fridge - This is my go-to recipe to clean out any old vegetables I have in my fridge!
  • Spam Variety - I personally like to use low sodium Spam for this recipe. If you are worried about sodium, try this recipe with low sodium spam first. That being said, I also love to use flavored spam like Maple, Garlic or Tocino flavored spam for this recipe as well!
  • Use A Large Skillet or Wok - Overcrowding the pan will cause the rice to be mushy because it won't have proper airflow and everything will 'steam', so it's best to use a very large pan to make fried rice.
  • Use Leftover or Day Old Rice - To prevent soggy fried rice, it is important to always use leftover rice to make fried rice because it is drier than freshly made rice. If you don't have leftover rice, you make fresh rice but make sure you use less water to cook it than you normally do (I normally use about a 1:1 water to rice ratio to make 2 cups of rice in a rice cooker, so if I'm making fresh rice to make fried rice, I would subtract about 3-4 tablespoons instead.) and let it fully cool in the fridge or freezer, spread out on a cookie sheet or tray, before using it.
  • Rub Your Hands With a Bit of Oil - To prevent the rice from sticking to your hands, when you are breaking up the rice, I like to rub a bit of oil on my hands before I start
  • Add Oil to The Eggs - Adding a teaspoon of oil into the eggs will make them fluffier.
  • Toast the Spam with Butter - Although butter is not a traditional fried rice ingredient, adding it to toast the spam will give it a lot more flavor because the milk solids from the butter will brown and become brown butter. It will also give the spam fried rice a richer taste. Remember to add a bit of oil to the butter to increase the smoking point which will help prevent it from burning too quickly.

Nutrition

Calories: 940kcal | Carbohydrates: 125g | Protein: 29g | Fat: 35g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 17g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 207mg | Sodium: 1530mg | Potassium: 738mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 2631IU | Vitamin C: 7mg | Calcium: 85mg | Iron: 3mg