Recipe: Egg yolk raviolo and bottarga butter by Jake Simpson

This luxurious comfort food is bursting with velvety flavour

Egg yolk raviolo and bottarga butter
Bottarga, particularly the grey mullet variety, is 'salty, fishy, rich and wonderful', says Jake Simpson
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You may not be familiar with bottarga but as this simple dish by chef Jake Simpson demonstrates it's the perfect ingredient to keep in your fridge to transform a plate of food. 

Bottarga is the salted and dried roe of either grey mullet (commonly found in Sardinia) or tuna (more often from Sicily). "I much prefer the Sardinian mullet version," said Simpson.

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