Recipe: Japanese-Style Summer Pasta (Patreon)

I was looking forward to writing a blog post tonight, but I just realized that once in, um, three years, I'm going out for a bit. I do, though want to post something, so recipe it is! 

I made this last week. It's a "Japanese Summer Salad". 

Ingredients (for 2)

Spaghetti (180~200 grams)

1 Tomato

1 avocado

Shrimp (10)

Fake crab (kani kamaboko)

5 Aojiso/Green Shiso leaves (I used a lot more)

Sauce

1 Tablespoon Olive oil 

3 Tablespoons Soy sauce

Wasabi (as spicy as you like it, I added a lot, more than a tablespoon and it still wasn't very wasabi-y)

2 cloves Garlic (I used more, always more garlic)

Salt (to taste)

1. Wash and cut tomato, avocado and fake crab into small bite-sized pieces. I put a little olive oil on the avocado to keep it from browning, but next time I'd probably use lemon. 

2. Wash and slice the aojiso into thin strips.

3. Make the sauce and set aside. 

4. Fry up the shrimp in either olive oil or butter and garlic, salt and pepper. Set aside to cool. 

5. Marinate tomatoes, avocados, and fake crab in the sauce while you...

6. Boil the pasta as you like it and drain and wash with cold water (Note: I forgot to do this and the pasta was starchy. I think this is probably and important step. ...oops)

7. In a big bowl add pasta, marinating vegetables with sauce and shrimp and mix well. Salt to taste. I actually added more wasabi at this point. 

Also, since I used about ten shiso leaves, I put half in as I mixed.

8. Top with the rest of the shiso.

Okay, next Sunday night will be a proper bloggy-blog, not recipe. I totally forgot I had to go out tonight. 😅

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