Mentaiko Pasta is a wafu dish, wafu is Japanese word for Western fusion. Mentaiko pasta is classic Japanese style spaghetti dish, made with spicy cod roe sauce and topped with shiso leaves.
Strictly speaking, I shouldn’t count mine in COTQ as I used ready made sauce. But since I don’t have time to go to the Japanese grocery this week, and anxious to start…
Sauce I used.
The tiny dots are roe.
Added some canned sea urchin. It was actually quite delicious as pantry cooking.
If you want to make the sauce:
