Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, really easy and delicious mentaiko pasta. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Really Easy and Delicious Mentaiko Pasta is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Really Easy and Delicious Mentaiko Pasta is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook really easy and delicious mentaiko pasta using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Really Easy and Delicious Mentaiko Pasta:

1. Make ready 200 grams Spaghetti
2. Get 60 to 80 grams Mentaiko
3. Prepare 15 grams Butter (or margarine)
4. Make ready 2/3 tbsp Shiro-dashi
5. Take 1 Green onion (your favorite type)
6. Take 1 Black pepper (coarsely ground or freshly ground)

Steps to make Really Easy and Delicious Mentaiko Pasta:

1. Leave out the butter until it reaches room temperature, or soften in the microwave.
2. Cook the spaghetti in plenty of salted water until al dente.
3. While the pasta is cooking, take the membrane off the mentaiko and take out the insides only.
4. I put a slit down the mentaiko on a cutting board, and scoop out the insides with a spoon. It's easy to remove the insides this way.
5. Put the softened butter, mentaiko and shiro-dashi in a bowl and mix together.
6. If you don't have shiro-dashi, use 1 teaspoon of soy sauce instead. Adjust this to your taste too.
7. Chop the green onion into thin rounds.
8. When the pasta has cooked to the al dente stage, take out 1 to 2 tablespoons of the cooking water and drain the pasta well. Put the pasta and the reserved cooking water to the bowl and mix well.
9. Transfer to serving plates, sprinkle with the chopped green onions and black pepper, and it's done.
10. It's also delicious with shredded nori seaweed or shredded shiso leaves. At the izakaya that serves this, they use a type of green onion called himenegi and nori seaweed.
11. It's important to cook the pasta to the al dente stage and mixing it quickly in step 9. If you're too slow the pasta gets kind of lumpy.

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