Step by step instructions to easily make homemade spam! With a basic recipe, and then also an example of a Tocino flavored version from the basic recipe.
(numbers expressed as a percentage of the total meat, so you can scale recipe or use pounds)
RECIPE
1000g pork butt, 28% fat, add as needed
15% ice water, 150 ml or grams
2.5g cure#1
2.5% salt total, of which 2.3g from cure1 and 22.7g kosher.
1.6% sugar, 16g, or a sweetener
15g potato starch (NOT dried potatoes!)
10g Walton's Suregel binder (or use 5g sodium phosphate phosphate, 5g more potato starch, so total binders approx 2% or 20g)
0.5g sodium erythorbate, cure accelerator and color fixing.
Spices:
0.15% white pepper, 1.5g
0.1% black pepper, 1.0g
0.1% coriander ground, 1.0g
0.1% paprika, 1.0g
0.05% garlic granulated, 0.5g
÷÷÷÷That’s basic SPAM above this line!÷÷÷÷÷
Tocino flavor:
18g more sugar
5g annatto powder
Jalapeno Flavor:
4.5% jalapeno fresh, 45g fine dice no vein/seed