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S&B Tarako spaghetti sauce, 46.4g pack, front showing cod roe and たらこ
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S&B Tarako Spaghetti Sauce Japanese Cod Roe Pasta 46.4g

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S&B Tarako Spaghetti Sauce Japanese Cod Roe Pasta 46.4g

Two sachets of salted roe sauce that turn plain boiled spaghetti into Japanese tarako pasta, stirred through the hot drained noodles with nothing to cook.

Regular price $4.98AUD

$10.73 per 100 g

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Why we say this

The Japanese pack of this sauce was the top-selling tarako pasta sauce in Japan from December 2021 to November 2024, by retail sales data S&B cites. We stock the export edition, with chives in place of the Japanese pack's seaweed.

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About

Two sachets of salted roe sauce that turn plain boiled spaghetti into Japanese tarako pasta, stirred through the hot drained noodles with nothing to cook. It tastes salty and savoury, of the sea, with a fine grain of roe you can feel on your tongue, and there is no chilli and no butter in it. Buy it if you want the plain, mild tarako spaghetti; if you want a chilli kick, this is the wrong sachet, and the mentaiko one is the roe sauce with chilli added.

たらこ, tarako (ta-RAH-ko).

What you're getting

  • What it does to the pasta: it coats every strand in a salty sauce with a fine grain of roe, and a sachet of chopped chives goes on top. It is the finished dish, not a base you cook further.
  • Cod roe, or pollock?: tarako is salted roe from Alaska pollock, a smaller relative of cod, and the English on the pack calls it cod roe.
  • How much pasta: one sachet for 100 g of dry spaghetti, which is one serve, and the pack makes two.
  • Not the pack sold in Japan: this is the export edition. It comes with chives instead of the dried seaweed of the Japanese pack, and its ingredient list is different, so a pack you bought in Japan will not match it line for line.
  • Allergens: contains fish, wheat and soy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
  • Also on the label: there is fish in it. Besides the roe, the seasoning uses a protein partly made from fish, and it is coloured with cochineal, a dye made from insects.

The instructions on the back of the pack are in English.

Ingredients

Sauce: cod roe, shortening (hydrogenated rapeseed oil, hydrogenated palm oil, palm kernel oil), salt, water, monosodium glutamate, sugar, hydrolysed protein (fish [bonito, sardine, tuna], corn, wheat, soybeans), disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, trisodium citrate, powdered soy sauce (soy sauce [soybeans, wheat, salt], dextrin, salt), cochineal extract (colour), powdered yeast extract. Topping: chive.

For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.

Allergens
Contains
  • Fish
  • Wheat
  • Soy
Dietary notes

Not vegetarian: besides the roe itself, the seasoning uses a protein partly made from bonito, sardine and tuna, and the colour comes from cochineal, a dye made from insects.

For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.

Details
Maker
S&B · Tokyo
Made in
Japan
Net contents
One pack: 46.4 g, two sauce sachets and two chive sachets

Our guide

How to cook with it

  • Cook 100 g of dry spaghetti per sachet and drain it well.
  • Stir one sauce sachet through the pasta straight away, on the plate while the noodles are still hot; the sauce itself is never heated.
  • Scatter one chive sachet over the top and eat it straight away.

Good to know

  • One sachet is one serve. Two on the same 100 g of pasta is too salty, so if you want a bigger bowl, cook more pasta and open the second sachet.
  • The other favourite use is a quick roe potato salad: mash two small boiled potatoes with one sachet and a tablespoon of mayonnaise.

In their own words

What Japanese buyers say

  • Plenty of sauce, a proper grainy feel, and tasty.

    ソースの量が多くつぶつぶ感も確り有って美味しかった

    from monolog, a Japanese review site

  • I can't taste the tarako, and it tastes fishy.

    たらこの味がしなくて、生臭さを感じます。

    from monolog

  • I've bought lots of tarako pasta sauces, and this is the one my kids like best.

    色んなパスタソースのたらこを買いましたが子供がコレが1番好き

    from monolog

  • I like my tarako spaghetti without butter.

    バターの入ってないたらスパが好きです

    from monolog

  • Small, if it's meant to be one serve.

    1人前と思うと少ない。

    from monolog

  • You only stir it in, so it's easy, yet it has real tarako taste and texture.

    混ぜるだけなのでお手軽なのにたらこの味、食感があって美味しい。

    from monolog

  • Add a little cream to this sauce and it's the best.

    このソースに生クリームを少し足して食べると最高

    from monolog

  • A bit oily, maybe.

    少し油っぽいかな…

    from monolog

  • I've eaten it for years. I'm team S&B over Kewpie, the other big Japanese brand.

    昔から食べてます。QPよりSB派ですね

    from monolog

  • Not fishy. It's good stirred into udon noodles too.

    生臭くない。うどんに混ぜても美味しい

    from monolog

  • Far too many additives — the worst.

    添加物が多すぎて最悪。

    from monolog

  • I use it up as a dip, mixed with mayo and lemon juice.

    マヨネーズや＋レモン果汁でソースにしてディップ消費

    from monolog

  • Easy but tasty, and the kids can make it themselves.

    簡単だけど美味しい。子供が自分で調理できる

    from monolog

  • I wanted more of the roe grain.

    もっと たらこ感の粒ツブが欲しかったです。

    from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site

  • It's grainy, it feels like eating real tarako, and it isn't heavy.

    つぶつぶ感があり、たらこを食べている感じがして、しつこくない

    from mognavi

  • The kids love it, so I stock up whenever it's cheap.

    子供が大好きで、安いときに買いだめしてあります

    from monolog

  • Fishy, and not nice.

    生臭くてまずい。

    from monolog

  • There are grains of roe, so you get the popping texture too.

    たらこの粒があってプチプチ食感も味わえました。

    from mognavi

  • It's tasty because there's no butter in it, and I don't like butter.

    苦手なバターが入っていないため美味しい。

    from mognavi

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The maker

Where it comes from

  • S&B
  • Tokyo

S&B began in Tokyo in 1923, when its founder made the first curry powder produced in Japan. The letters stand for Sun and Bird, the company's mark since 1931.

Its stir-through spaghetti sauces started in 1988 with two flavours, this plain tarako and a chilli mentaiko, and the line has been on Japanese shelves ever since.

Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: sbfoods-worldwide.com (opens in a new tab)