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Eggs Meat Noodles Asian noodles Lunch / Dinner Main Courses One Bowl Meals Pasta Salted duck egg

Salted duck egg and chorizo spaghetti

Published: 03.24.2022 ยป Last updated: 01.21.2023

Mimicking the Filipino egg-sausage-tomato-rice meal, this spaghetti dish has a rich sauce made with pureed salted duck egg, sun-dried tomatoes and basil.

Salted duck egg and chorizo spaghetti

The sauce is made with pureed salted duck eggs, olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes and basil. Cooked noodles and lightly fried chorizo are then tossed with the sauce. The result is a richly textured spaghetti dish with all the richness of salted duck eggs.

For non-Filipinos, salted duck egg, or itlog na maalat, as we call it is duck egg soaked in brine for a couple of weeks until the salt seeps through the shell and transforms the flavor and texture of the egg. The egg is boiled and, instead of slightly chewy egg white and powdery egg yolk, you get creamy egg white and slightly oily egg yolk.

If you canโ€™t find it in the grocery, you can easily make your own.

Salted duck egg and chorizo spaghetti

Connie Veneracion
The chorizo used in this recipe is the dried Spanish variety flavored with lots of paprika. Chorizo de Bilbao is probably the most well-known but there are other equally tasty chorizos like Iberico. If sausage isnโ€™t your thing, try bacon or salty ham.
Salted duck egg and chorizo spaghetti in bowl
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 12 minutes mins
Total Time 22 minutes mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine Filipino
Servings 3 people

Ingredients
  

  • spaghetti - or your preferred pasta shape for 3 people
  • 2 salted duck eggs
  • ยผ cup olive oil extra virgin
  • 1 tablespoon sun-dried tomatoes in herbed oil
  • ยฝ teaspoon pepper
  • 1 small handful sweet basil - or 1 tablespoon dried basil
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • โ…“ to ยฝ cup chopped chorizo
  • salt - to taste
  • snipped scallions - to garnish

Instructions
 

  • Cook the spaghetti in salted water.
  • While the noodles cook, shell and lightly chop the salted duck eggs.
  • Drop into the blender or food processor with the extra virgin oil, sun-dried tomatoes and pepper.
  • Process until smooth.
  • Add the basil. Pulse a few more times.
  • Heat the butter in a frying pan.
  • Add the chopped chorizo and cook over medium-low heat for a minute or two.
  • Add the cooked pasta to the chorizo. Toss well.
  • Pour the salted duck egg sauce over the pasta. Toss well.
  • Taste and add more salt, if needed.
  • Ladle the salted duck egg and chorizo spaghetti into bowls, garnish with snipped scallions and serve at once.
Keyword Salted duck egg, Sausages, Spaghetti
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Connie Veneracion, Chiang Mai, 2020

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