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Sep 14

Sea Urchin Pasta

Food 23: Kitchen

Last weekend a Japanese market stocked big shipment of Sea urchin so I bought some home, hoping to cook my favorite Sea Urchine Cream Spaghetti. I used Squid Ink Spaghetti because that's all I had. I don't think they taste much different from regular Spaghetti though, but they're a lot more expensive. Ideally oyster mushroom goes better with Uni but we don't have it so we used shitake mushroom instead. The receipe is simple and easy to cook (easy enough for cooking-newbie like us!) Just sauté minced garlic and chopped onion with olive oil, add in mushroom and cook them till soften. Add in cream (we ran out of cream so we use milk + butter as substitute) and cook till they thicken. Add salt and pepper accordingly. Mix in the sea urchin at the end after the fire is turn off. The result, very delicous! :D The sea urchin was quite fresh tasting. Love the sauce (haha complimenting myself...)

Joan | September 14, 2007 03:27 PM

Comments:

Haha seems like commentors are squick by the Squid ink spaghetti...^^;; It doesn't look that good with the yellow sea urchin sauce (looks cool as fashion color combine but not food I guess). A co-worker of mine once refused to touch the 'sharpie looking' squid ink spaghetti when we ordered it in a Spanish restaurant. It taste perfectly normal~ same as regular spaghetti but with a touch of seafood flavor.

Freda | September 22, 2007 09:29 AM

You use a lot of substitutes...plan ahead! ^^;; I love squid ink spaghetti~! What a luxurious homecooked meal.

seat | September 20, 2007 10:01 PM

Wow, that looks totally disgusting--Medusa comes to mind--LOL. You guys are quite adventurous.

Tiffany | September 20, 2007 07:35 AM

ha that sound really delicious, Taste-buzz, they sound too advance for me to cook though. Do you know any restaurant that offers similar sea urchin dishes that you mention?

Joan | September 18, 2007 04:10 AM

that's just too much!
:p'

jb | September 17, 2007 11:29 AM

Sea urchin pasta is quite delicious, but instead of spaghetti, go for something more in line with a rich sauce, like a risotto or a ravioli. In fact, consider the parallels in consistency between pumpkin and sea urchin and then imagine a ravioli filled with uni and paired with a sage butter sauce. (Now I'm just drooling...)