Spam fries (2-ingredients)

A box of SPAM fries with sauce in the background.

5 from 31 votes

Savoury and full of umami, these luncheon meat fries, or SPAM fries, will leave you wanting more! Crisp outside but soft inside, they're super simple to make and on the table in under 30 minutes! (I have tested them 5 different ways!)

Prep Time5

Cook Time15

Course: Appetizer, Side Dish, Snack

Cuisine: American, Fusion, singaporean, Southeast Asian

Servings: people

Calories: 536kcal

Author: Zen

Equipment

Knife & chopping board
Wide pan Use the widest pan you have so you can fry more at 1 go!

Ingredients

1 can luncheon meat, sliced along the longer side into ½inch/ about 1 cm fries Makes about 24 fries.
OIl Enough for shallow frying in a pan (or filling a deep-fryer if using 1.)
Rice flour Optional. Substitute: corn flour. Do not use all-purpose flour or glutinous rice flour.
Optional: garlic powder, onion powder, chilli powder etc Optional flavor. To mix into the rice flour if you want more spice.

Instructions

Cut your meat into ½-inch fries.
Dredge the pork in the rice or corn flour, shake off the excess and place on another plate.
Repeat till all the fries are coated. (You can actually fry half coated and half uncoated for some variety, if you like!)
Note: This is totally an optional step. It makes the SPAM slightly crunchier but not so much so that you must do it. (If you do, remember it's rice flour or corn flour. Do NOT use glutinous rice flour or all-purpose!)
Heat oil in a pan till shimmering, then carefully place the fries in it.
To save oil, I use a shallow layer of oil to fry the SPAM- just enough to make sure the meat doesn't stick!
Note: place them in the pan carefully so you don't burn yourself! (Don't drop them.) You can add more to your pan than I did but make sure you don't overcrowd, or the temperature of the oil will fall and the fries won't be as crisp.
Turn the fries (in the oil) 3 times, so that each side gets fried. It took me about 8 minutes per pan.
Once fried, put on a kitchen towel to absorb the excess oil then serve. I highly recommend serving with Gochujang Mayonnaise or Sambal Aioli. Too much SPAM can be cloying and the acid in the 2 sauces helps to balance the flavor.

Notes

For deep-frying

The oil should be at 365F/ 185C, about 4-6 minutes.

For healthier luncheon meat fries

You can make luncheon meat fries in the air fryer (200C/ 392F) for 3-5 minutes per side so 6-10 minutes in total) (Shake the basket every 3 minutes.)

- The thinner the slices, the more crisp they'll be (You can slice them thinner than when you deep fry as, with deep frying, you'll have to watch out for the fries breaking in the oil if too thin.)

Or bake them in the oven at 350F (178C/ 158C fan) for 5-6 minutes per side. (so 10-12 minutes in total.)

Note: the nutritional information is an estimate automatically calculated using the WPRM recipe maker and I am not responsible for its accuracy.

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