Hawaiian Inspired Spam & Beans

Ingredients:
1 tin dismiss Spam, cubed
1 onion, chopped
1/2 mango, cubed
iii cloves garlic, minced
1 lb navy beans
1/2 loving cup cup chili sauce (like Heinz)
half dozen oz pineapple juice
1 tablespoon 5 spice powder
1 tablespoon rum
1 teaspoon cayenne
1 teaspoon hickory liquid smoke
1/2 teaspoon allspice
bounding main salt
freshly solid position down pepper


Directions:
The 24-hour interval earlier yous desire to serve: Place the beans inwards a pot too hit total until the beans are nether almost iv inches of water.

The adjacent day: drain the beans too pour them into the dull cooker. Add all of the remaining ingredients except the spam. Cook on depression 8-10 hours or until the beans are soft. Fry the Spam inwards a nonstick skillet until quite crisp too nearly caramelized around the seven to 8 hr mark. Thoroughly drain the spam on newspaper towel lined plates. Stir into the Spam. If the beans are looking a picayune dry out too are non quite done, add together a picayune H2O or pineapple juice. Continue cooking at to the lowest degree 1/2 hr later on adding the Spam. Stir earlier serving.

My thoughts:

Okay, I am ordinarily non a Spam eater much less a Spam enthusiast simply when I was trying to intend of easy, won't rut upward the menage side dishes to serve amongst a vaguely Hawaiian themed repast I was making for friends, baked beans came to mind. I made these tropical baked beans inwards the dull cooker a few years dorsum (and a version of them appears inwards my cookbook--which is transportation out directly BTW--) too loved them. It is actually slowly simply a picayune nerve-wracking because the beans larn from existence pale too non quite cooked to brownish too soft too baked bean-y looking actually belatedly inwards the cooking process. But it ever seems to live (as long equally yous live along an midpoint on how dry out they await towards the end, some batches of beans absorb to a greater extent than liquid than others too yous don't desire them to burn) too the final result is ever tasty. Anyway, I was doing a pineapple pork matter (recipe to come) that seemed Hawaiian so I was thinking almost Hawaiian foods. Now I've never been to Hawaii simply it seems similar they honey the Spam. The popularity (the existence even) of Spam musubi is plenty to convince me of this simply the fact that in that place is an lawsuit called the Spam Jam inwards Waikiki clinched it. I had to brand a dish amongst Spam. But what? I didn't desire to serve gist amongst a side of gist so I had to contain the Spam into something to stretch it out a bit. Then I remembered my stance almost making baked beans too stance if people tin dismiss swallow beanie weenies, too so they tin dismiss certain swallow Spam & beans! And yous know what? It was the surprise hitting of the evening. The trick, I think, is to thoroughly modest the Spam (and a dry out nonstick pan is fine for this, the fatty inwards the Spam renders pretty speedily too yous actually don't desire to add together more) until it is actually crispy too drain, drain, drain it on newspaper towels so it doesn't brand the dish seem greasy. It added a salty-smoky flavour that is similar to what actual ham would bring simply the softer texture was actually overnice amongst the beans. It is a total fluke, novelty recipe simply honestly, I am tempted to arrive again.