Cod Roe Pasta (Mentaiko Pasta)
Cod Roe Pasta (Mentaiko Pasta)

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, cod roe pasta (mentaiko pasta). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Cod Roe Pasta (Mentaiko Pasta) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Cod Roe Pasta (Mentaiko Pasta) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

A Japanese-invented pasta, Mentaiko Pasta is a spaghetti coated with brined spicy cod roe with Japanese seasonings and butter. It is a very quick and simple pasta, and so tasty. Mentaiko Pasta is a must-try yōshoku (Japanese-style Western food)!

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have cod roe pasta (mentaiko pasta) using 4 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cod Roe Pasta (Mentaiko Pasta):
  1. Make ready 400 g spaghetti
  2. Prepare 2 small cod roe sacks
  3. Take 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  4. Get 1 sheet Japanese seaweed (nori)

Transfer to serving bowls, top each bowl with reserved roe, and garnish with nori strips. Serve right away, mixing nori and roe garnish in with chopsticks before eating. Mentaiko (Japanese Cod Roe Spaghetti) Well long story short. Hitomi places a bowl of buttery mentaiko pasta and mushrooms in front of me in the end.

Steps to make Cod Roe Pasta (Mentaiko Pasta):
  1. Boil the spaghetti. While the pasta is cooking, mix the cod roe and olive oil in a large bowl and mix.
  2. Once the pasta is cooked, drain and cool it (by tossing it in the strainer and blowing on it). This is so the cod roe does not cook. Transfer the pasta into the cod roe and olive oil mixture and mix.
  3. Plate the pasta and cut nori into strips, sprinkling on top.

Then mix with the mentaiko sauce. I add some crushed red pepper flakes. Also, try adding some heavy cream. It'll make awesome mentaiko cream pasta. It tastes just like the mentaiko cream pasta that I ate in Japan.

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