Spam Fried Rice. White rice fried with savory spam, fluffy eggs, green peas, carrots, corn with soy sauce and butter. This a 30-minute easy spam fried rice recipe with leftover rice!
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What is Spam Fried Rice?
Spam fried rice features stir-fried rice, scrambled eggs, mixed vegetables and diced spam with soy sauce, sesame oil, oil and butter. Spam is a canned ingredient that contains mixed pork and it's very delicious and convenient!
My version of this fried rice dish is savory and packed with umami flavors! A quick and easy main dish that comes together with pantry ingredients and a can of spam!
This recipe is great for a busy weeknight when I need a fast meal. It's the perfect way to use leftover ingredients in the fridge. If you're a fan of spam, then this is definitely a recipe you need to try!
Ingredients
Please scroll down to the below Recipe card for full measurementsβ
- Day-old rice:Β or any long grain rice will work but ideally Jasmine rice. Brown rice works too. Avoid short grain rice or using fresh rice unless you lay it out in a sheet pan exposed and freeze it for 45-60 minutes. Then break up the cold rice with hands moistened with neutral oil to prevent the rice from sticking to your hands.
- Can of spam: feel free to use the low sodium kind. If you don't like spam, substitute with ham.
- Eggs
- Frozen Carrots: to make things easier so you don't have to peel and cut them
- Frozen Corn: or substitute with strained canned corn
- Frozen Peas:Β or substitute with chopped green beans
- Shallots: or replace with onion
- Green onions
- Minced Garlic
- Neutral oil: any flavorless oil like avocado oil, peanut oil, grapeseed oil, vegetable oil or canola oil with a higher smoke point. Avoid olive oil.
- Regular soy sauce: or substitute with low sodium soy sauce or light soy sauce. If youβre gluten-free, substitute with tamari sauce, coconut aminos or a gluten-free soy sauce of your choice.
- Dark soy sauce: this is thicker and darker than regular soy sauce.
- Unsalted butter
- Salt
- Sesame oil
Note: Your Asian grocery store will carry most of the Asian specific ingredients.
Expert Tips
- Use leftover rice as the cold freezer air removes the moisture content from the rice creating for fluffy separated granules.Β Make sure to break it up with your hands before stir-frying.
- If you're making fresh rice for this recipe, make sure to cook it with less water (a few tablespoons less) to create sturdy grains. Also, make sure to dry out the hot cooked rice in the freezer. Please see detailed instructions under the FAQ section below.
- Prepare ingredients in advance before you stir fry,Β this prevents overcooking the ingredients and a more smoother cooking process.
- Don't skimp on the oil! Enough oil is essential for a good fried rice.
- Make sure to fry the rice on medium-high heat and nothing lower. If the heat is too low, you'll have mushy rice with all that tossing action.
- If you have a carbon steel wok, use it! This is to your advantage because it offers a smoky flavor to the fried rice.
How to make Spam Fried Rice
Fry Spam & Shallots
First in a wok or large skillet on medium-high heat, fry cubes of spam until golden brown on each side. Then toss in your shallots. Fry until the shallots have softened.
βFry Aromatics & Vegetables
Next add in vegetable oil, green onions and garlic. Then give this is a toss and push to the side of pan. After add corn, peas and carrots. Toss with the other ingredients. Sweep everything to the side.
Scramble Eggs
Then pour in beaten eggs into empty space of pan. Allow this to cook and then break the cooked eggs into bite size pieces. Push to the side.
Add Rice & Seasoning
Add in leftover rice, regular soy sauce, dark soy sauce, butter, and salt. Toss until the rice and other ingredients are well combined and evenly coated. Every grain should be brown.
Add Sesame Oil & Serve
Drizzle sesame oil over and mix. Remove off heat. Enjoy!
Storage & Reheating
Leftovers will last up to 4 days stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator. To reheat, microwave for 2-3 minutes until hot or reheat in a pan on medium heat.
FAQ
Freshly cooked rice can be used to make fried rice but I would suggest using less water to steam it. Then it's recommended to dry it out to mimic day old rice. To do this: Evenly spread the hot cooked rice on a large baking sheet and place it in the freezer for up to 45-60 minutes exposed to the cold freezer air. This will dry out the rice quickly. Then with clean hands moistened with some neutral oil, break up the cold rice into separate granules before frying it.Β
π Recipe
Quick & Easy Spam Fried Rice
Ingredients
- 4 cups cooked jasmine rice day-old
- 1 can spam diced, low-sodium kind
- 2 eggs beaten
- 1 cup frozen diced carrots rinsed with cold water and strained
- β cup frozen peas rinsed with cold water and strained
- β cup frozen corn rinsed with cold water and strained
- 1 shallot finely chopped
- 2 green onions finely chopped
- 2 teaspoon garlic minced
- 2 tablespoon vegetable oil or any neutral tasting oil
- 2 tablespoon regular soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon butter
- ΒΌ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
Instructions
- In a wok or large pan on medium-high heat, fry your spam until golden brown on each side.
- Toss in your shallots. Fry until the shallots have softened.
- Add in vegetable oil, green onions and garlic. Give this is a toss and push to the side of pan.
- Add corn, peas and carrots. Toss with the other ingredients. Sweep everything to the side.
- Pour in beaten eggs into empty space of pan. Allow this to cook and then break into bite size pieces. Push to the side.
- Add in leftover rice, regular soy sauce, dark soy sauce, butter, and salt. Toss until the rice and other ingredients are well combined and evenly coated. Every grain should be brown.
- Drizzle sesame oil over and mix. Remove off heat. Enjoy!
Tasia ~ two sugar bugs
I LOVE this Christie! In my opinion, it's all about balance. We have to allow ourselves to find what balance works for us. It makes me happy to know that you are sharing recipes that you love and enjoy!! This Spam fried rice looks insanely delicious too!!
christieathome
Thanks so much for reading Tasia! You're totally right. It really is about balance and I'm so happy to be sharing recipes that I truly enjoy now π
Rashmi
I just love fried rice... this looks so yummy... thanks for sharing the recipe dear π
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christieathome
Thank you so much! I appreciate that! It's a delicious one.
Never Ending Journeys
I absolutely love this recipe! Fried rice is one of my all time favorite dishes, so adding spam would take it to a whole new level. Thanks for sharing this!
christieathome
Thanks so much!! It was definitely one recipe that I was excited to share here because I'm sure so many people bought spam for the lockdown.
Katerina
I couldn't agree more - eating healthy is all about balance. What is the point of having the most nutritious diet if you're unhappy? I have to admit I only eat spam when we're in Hawaii (they do love their spam) but I love this idea - I don't think I'd be able to stop eating!
christieathome
Thanks Katerina! I am glad you're with me on that. It took me awhile to really get to this place of balanced wellness and I'm still learning as I go. I bet their spam is just amazing!
Letscurry
Christie, I'm planning this for a quick dinner and gonna replace spam with tofu. It's an amazing recipe to get more veggies in.
I agree with you about finding the right balance and working with our individual body rather than following the fad. We all are unique and so are our eating habits and too much of control will only backfire and make you binge more. Insightful eating is what we need but hey, life is too short to skip a packet of chips. Enjoy!
christieathome
That's wonderful! I'm so glad to hear you will try my recipe. I hope you enjoy it π It's a great foundation for any fried rice where you can swap out ingredients for what you prefer.
I'm also glad you're with me on that! It's very true, when we restrict ourselves it only leads to binge eating. Thanks for your kind comment Haseena! I truly appreciate it.
Rosemary
I love fried rice! You know it is such a great base recipe to throw different ingredients into! I definitely want to try this with some little pieces of chicken! And of course egg hehe
George Moy
Christie; Hi your spam fried rice is delicious,I know I used to make it in the past, but I havenβt recently because when you buy spam at the grocery store (like Kroger) it is very expensive $3.89 for one can ,also you should let readers know sometimes when you order fried rice on a take out menu (as sides for your meal) all you will get fried rice all right,but no meat or vegetables,either.Another thing,you could make fried rice with,boil in bag rice or instant rice,(just use a sliver of water for instant rice) both rice will asorb soy sauce so easily that you should adjust how much soy sauce to season,now if you substitute the peppers (green,red, orange and yellow)it would make it more enjoyable because spam, and bacon is very salty, the green peppers will take the saltiness out with a little sweetness added to the dish.
George Moy
Also I forgot to mention to tell you instead of regular spam,you should try the new spam,that is bacon flavor spam,its like having fried bacon, but it tasted a little like Rath ham ,the bacon spam is very delicious too.
christieathome
Thanks for making my recipe! Glad you enjoyed it, George! Thanks for all this information and I'm sure the readers will find this comment helpful!
Sarah
I made this today for the first time and it is absolutely delicious. It's cold and rainy outside and this was the bowl of comfort I was searching for. Thank you very much.
christieathome
Thank you so much for making my recipe, Sarah! I am so pleased that you enjoyed my dish π Have a lovely day!
Amanda S Fisher
Amazing combination of flavors! Thanks for a wonderful recipe!
christieathome
Thank you so much for the kind comment, Amanda! Happy I could share this recipe with you and glad you enjoyed it!
Jeane
I made this last night, now having made it twice. It is so good and is now a regular on the family menu. I now do the prep work a few hours ahead of time- I cut up some extra carrot ( to cook with the garlic and onion/ shallot), dice up the spam and some pressed tofu dusted in cornstarch as well to stretch the protein (for family of 6). Because I have no wok, I cook the ingredients separately, and place each in a bowl and bring it all together in my skillet at the end and it works great. Thanks Christie, I'm looking forward to trying several of your recipes - you've made them very approachable. Good work!
Christie Lai
Thank you so much for leaving such a kind and positive review, Jeane! I am so thrilled to hear that you enjoy this recipe so much and I hope you enjoy my other recipes π Have a lovely day!