Grated Mullet Roe Bottarga

Find high quality, authentic grated bottarga roe from Sardinia.

It's one of the greatest Sardinian products of the Italian culinary tradition. Because bottarga has a distinctive flavor, it's intense, salty, and very similar to caviar. Bottarga has a distinctive flavor. It is intense, salty, a little briny, a little bitter, and is very popular with long-stranded pasta like spaghetti. The most common being Spaghetti Con La Bottarga, where the tender bits of roe cling to the pasta and add tiny explosions of salty, fishy taste.

This grated version of bottarga adds a punch to salads, pasta, and many other dishes and is a must in any chef's pantry.

Bottarga has high protein content and is very rich in Omega 3 fatty acid; it is amber in color and has a decided yet delicate flavor. Thinly sliced or grated, traditionally dried bottarga is used in Italian cuisine to enhance the flavor of vegetables and fish, as well as risotto, eggs, and seafood dishes.

We guarantee this product has been successfully certified by the International Food Standard (IFS), created by the Italian, German and French large retailers operators, that has become, over time, an international standard for the control of the distributors’, retailers’ and wholesalers’ private label food products. This standard, which has been embraced by the main Italian trade associations, is employed throughout all the food raw materials (fishing, agriculture and farming) production and processing stages.

Ingredients: mullet roe (fish), sea salt.

Net quantity : 3.53 oz / 100 gr

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FAQ

What does bottarga taste like? Bottarga tastes salty, briny, slightly bitter, and deeply savory, with a flavor often compared to caviar.

What exactly is bottarga made of? Bottarga is made from cured and naturally dried roe, in this case mullet roe, with sea salt.

What is a substitute for bottarga? There is no exact substitute, but another salty seafood garnish may provide a similar savory flavor in recipes.