Uni Pasta

This creamy umami bomb is what happens when sea urchin and carbs fall in love. A Japanese-Italian mashup that screams “I’m fancy but I still want noodles.”

Ingredients:

• 2 trays of uni

• 1/3 cup chicken stock

• 1/4 cup of heavy cream

• 1 stick of butter

• Fettuccine pasta  

Fettuccini pasta

• A pinch of salt

• 3 eggs and 5 yolks

• 1 tbsp of olive oil

• 2 cups 00 flour

Topping

• Salmon roe ikura

• Uni

• Nori strips

Directions:

Fettuccini dough 

1. Make a giant well of flour

2. Incorporate the oil and eggs and beat. Then pour in the center of flour well

3. Whisk in the eggs with the flour until it becomes dough

4. Knead the dough for a good 7-10 minutes 

5. It’s done when you poke it and it springs back up. Wrap it in arrangement wrap and sit in room temp for half hour to an hour

6. Dust flour and roll out until very thin. Roll and slice into noodles

7. Dust over noodles

8. Boil water with salt and place in pasta  for just 2-3 minutes. Drain. Save some pasta water

Uni pasta

1. Mix together uni and butter, put aside

2. In pan, heat up chicken stock and heavy cream

3. Transfer pasta with a little pasta water into pan with heavy cream and chicken stock 

4. Mix in uni butter lol

5. Serve on plate top first with nori then ikura.