Recipe: Tasty Homemade Spam

Homemade Spam. As many of you know, Spam stands for spiced ham. It's made with pork shoulder and ham. The ingredient list is actually quite small and contains nothing too scary: Pork with Ham, Salt, Water, Modified Potato Starch, Sugar, Sodium Nitrite.

Mix well until everything makes a slurry. Add to the ground meats and mix well to incorporate by hand. The meat should reassemble a thick paste. You can have Homemade Spam using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Homemade Spam

1. You need 5 pounds of pork shoulder.
2. Prepare 1 pound of ham (I prefer black forest or Chisasea).
3. You need 2 Tablespoons of + 1 teaspoon of Morton Tender Quick.
4. Prepare 3 Tablespoons of sugar.
5. Prepare 3 Tablespoons of potato starch (corn starch would work as well).
6. You need 1 Tablespoon of kosher salt.
7. You need 1/4 Teaspoon of allspice.
8. It's 1 Cup of ice cold water.

Remove from the oven and uncover the bread pan (there will be a lot of grease, but do not worry.). Mix Tender Quick, sugar, cornstarch, Kosher salt and cold water together until everything is dissolved. Combine with ground meat and thoroughly mix. Store-bought SPAM is usually packed with lots of sodium (or salt), as well as sodium nitrite as a preservative.

Homemade Spam instructions

1. Special equipment you will need. 2 bricks wrapped in aluminum foil. A meat grinder. 2 loaf pans. A casserole dish for the water bath..
2. Cut your pork shoulder into cubes; removing the bone and trimming away enough fat to roughly get a 20/80 fat to lean ratio. Place the pork cubes and fat in the freezer for 1 hour and then grind using a #10 grinder plate and set aside..
3. Next, grind the 1 pound of ham as well. Add the ground ham to the ground pork shoulder and mix well and evenly by hand..
4. Preheat oven to 250F.
5. In a mixing bowl, combine the Tender Quick, sugar, potato starch, kosher salt, allspice, and cold water. Mix well until everything makes a slurry. Add to the ground meats and mix well to incorporate by hand. The meat should reassemble a thick paste..
6. Divide the meat mixture between two 9.5"x5" loaf pans and press firmly to remove any air bubbles, dropping a couple time on the counter..
7. Tightly seal with aluminum foil and then place in a water bath, and then into the oven for 3 hours or until the loaves reach an internal temperature of 155F..
8. Remove from the oven and place a brick or other heavy object on top of each loaf and let cool overnight..
9. Some different ways I use my Spam is in a spicy udon bowl, fried spam next to eggs in a basket for breaky. It also freezes really well for long term use..

By making your own SPAM, you can adjust the amount of salt added to your desired saltiness. Also, there is NO preservative added to homemade SPAM, thus it is healthier. Homemade Spam is tender and delicious and can form the basis of countless sandwiches and meals. The ingredients are few, the method is easy with no specialist equipment required and the results are seriously mouthwatering. Homemade SPAM With Pork Shoulder & Ham: Spam, spam, spam, it is a poor man feast.