thick white noodles with tarako sauce

ingredients:

• 1 3/4 ounces karashi-mentaiko
• (spicy alaska pollack roe)
• 3 green perilla leaves (optional)
• 8 1/2 ounces cooked thick white
• noodles (udon)
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1/6 ounce butter
• 2 heaping tablespoons mayonnaise
• 1 2/3 tablespoons milk

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, lemon juice to the mentaiko in the bowl and mix.

step 4:

Add the cooked thick white noodles and green perilla leaves (optional) to the sauce in the bowl and mix.