macaroni with tarako sauce

ingredients:

• 80 g macaroni
• 50 g karashi-mentaiko
• (spicy alaska pollack roe)
• 3 green perilla leaves (optional)
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 5 g butter
• 2 heaping tablespoons mayonnaise
• 25 ml milk
• a little salt
• 1 liter water

step 1:

Because mentaiko is covered by a thin film, cut the mentaiko in half lengthwise and take out the contents. Place in a bowl.

step 2:

Chop the green perilla leaves thinly (optional).

step 3:

Melt the butter in a microwave oven. Add the melted butter, mayonnaise, milk, salt, freshly squeezed lemon juice to the mentaiko in the bowl and mix.

step 4:

Pour the 1 liter of water into a pan. Bring to a boil and add the macaroni. After boiling, drain the macaroni in a colander.

step 5:

Add the macaroni and green perilla leaves (optional) to the sauce in the bowl and mix.