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Freya’s Homemade Uni Pasta with Scallops

Freya Jin, Habanero Consulting Inc.
Freya Jin

Junior Front-End Developer

My family loves to buy fresh seafood from Taro’s fish market. Their salmon, shrimps, scallops and uni are very fresh. We love their Boston uni so we put it on sushi, don and pasta. It’s cheaper than eating out and it tastes really good!

Homemade Uni Pasta with Scallops

Ingredients

Pasta

  • pasta noodles
  • 20 g crabmeat
  • butter
  • garlic
  • onion
  • black pepper

Garnish

  • 5 pieces scallop
  • 2 pieces uni
  • 1 piece seaweed

Instructions

Step 1

Bring a pot of water to a boil and add pasta.

Step 2

After pasta is cooked, save ½ cup of water from the pot and leave pasta aside.

Step 3

Pat scallops dry and sprinkle with black pepper.

Step 4

Chop seaweed into thing strips.

Step 5

In a pan over medium heat, start browning the onion and garlic.

Step 6

Once the onion becomes fragrant, add crab meat and sauté.

Step 7

In a different bowl, melt the butter and 1 piece of uni with the ½ cup of leftover pasta water.

Step 8

Pour the the mix into the pan.

Step 9

Put pasta into the pan and then coat all ingredients well.

Step 10

Set aside everything from the pan into a warm bowl.

Step 11

Use the empty pan to fry scallops and then put them to the warm bowl as well.

Step 12

Garnish with 2 pieces of uni and seaweed.

Photos from Freya

A white bowl filled with cooked spaghette noodles, seaweed, uni and seared scallops sits on a wood table next to a silver fork.
Plated pasta with seafood, fresh from the market.
Six scallops topped with ground black pepper sit on a sheet of papertowel on a marble countertop.
Peppered scallops are ready for searing.

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