Shirasu Pasta

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Remember Sakuraiba date in Himitsu no Arashi-chan Ep 144? In this episode, dear Aiba-chan cooked the Shirasu pasta for Sho-chan, and me: drooling at the pasta. Granted Aiba-chan screwed up his cooking, but it doesn't make the pasta less mouth watering, and since then, I've been wanting to cook this pasta at least once. Tried Shirasu pasta in a restaurant as soon as I saw the episode but get slightly pissed off because it was an oily pasta and shirasu (not cooked, raw) on the top. Taste OK, but it doesn't look appetizing as the one I saw in HnA. So, this time, I just made my own. There are some difference in presentation because I didn't buy nori, I put fresh chili because I like color, and lastly Aiba-chan put relatively lots amount of shirasu in the pasta which I can't really afford. Shirasu may be cheap in Japan, but it's definitely not cheap when you find it in Japanese supermarket here.

*for 1 person
100 gr pasta - boiled until al dente - put in 2 pinch of salt in the water (the part that Aiba-chan forgot to do in his :p)
1/2 red chili - sliced thinly and seeds removed
3 cloves garlic - chopped coarsely
35 gr shirasu
2 tbsp olive oil for stir fry

How to:
1. in the frying pan, add in oil, garlic and chili and saute until fragrant (don't let the garlic burned)
2. add in Shirasu, stir fry for about 1 minute
3. add in pasta, stir the pasta until the shirasu is well mixed

Tips:
1. add sunny side up egg, it'll taste better (there's no egg in the pic because I had too much eggs lately :()
2. if your budget is accommodating, add more Shirasu, the the more the merrier
3. Shirasu by itself is already salty, so don't add too much salt when you cook the pasta. I roughly only add about 2 small pinch of salt and it tastes just nice, not overwhelmingly salty