Today I got to work with a super fun ingredient- purple sea urchins! If you can’t tell by now, purple is my all-time favorite color. Sea urchins to me look like they could be a Pokémon, especially when they are purple! Believe it or not they’re actually really easy to prepare! When opening the sea, I like to use scissors and first cut around and remove the beak (at least I think it’s a beak 🙈) then I cut around the edges and clean out the inside with salted water. The part of the sea urchin that is edible is actually the reproductive organs- this is the orange part around the edges called uni. Uni is extremely delicate. I like to use a caviar spoon to gently remove it from the shell! The flavor of Uni is rich and tastes like the ocean . The texture is super creamy and it almost melts in your mouth. The best way to eat is when the sea urchin is still fresh and alive when you remove the meat! I used a beautiful pasta sheet that I cooked and brown butter with thyme and pink peppercorns . Then I added some to the bottom of the plate with chives and more of that brown butter, and I covered it with the pasta sheet. I added more chives, pink, peppercorns, fresh Uni, lemon zest and flaky salt on top! This was really good Uni so I wanted to keep it fully intact when I ate it ! I really love creamy Uni sauces as well but today this was a perfect treat. #purpleuni #seaurchin