Japan

Mentaiko Pasta

Name: Mentaiko Pasta
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Japan
Ingredients: 200 g Spaghetti; 2 sacs Mentaiko (spicy pollack roe); 30 g Butter; 1 tsp Soy sauce; 1 sheet Nori (in strips); some Shiso or spring onion

Japanese spaghetti with spicy fish roe

Mentaiko pasta belongs to wafū pasta - Japanese-interpreted spaghetti dishes - and uses spicy marinated pollack roe (mentaiko).

The raw roe is stirred with butter into a creamy sauce; a strip of nori and shiso give the final fresh accent.

Servings2

Time20 min

LevelEasy

Ingredients

Spaghetti200 g
Mentaiko (spicy pollack roe)2 sacs
Butter30 g
Soy sauce1 tsp
Nori (in strips)1 sheet
Shiso or spring onionsome

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Cook the spaghetti al dente, keep some pasta water.
Scrape the mentaiko from its sac, mix with soft butter and soy sauce.
Toss hot spaghetti with the mentaiko butter.
If needed, loosen creamy with pasta water.
Serve with nori strips and shiso.

Make it original

Nori and soy sauce for mentaiko pasta are in the Asia Boutique.

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