Sausage meets the sea in this daring culinary twist—featuring rich, briny sea urchin roe (uni). It's a bold fusion of surf and sizzle that challenges expectations and redefines sausage creativity.

What it is: Uni, or sea urchin, is a small creature with a spiny shell. It is the orange roe within the urchin that is edible and considered a delicacy, especially in Japanese cuisine. Uni has a ...

He noted that his wife eats kina, which is from the roe of a sea urchin, and that the couple never freeze what he brings in. "She’ll eat it the day it comes out of the ocean. We never freeze ...

This writer’s go-to at the sushi bar has long been uni, the egg-yolk-colored mass that I always thought was sea-urchin roe, but is described in “Changing the Menu” as the spiny creature’s ...

Longspined sea urchins are native to temperate waters ... known as "uni" in Japan. Urchin roe is a delicacy, renowned for its sweet, buttery, umami flavors and bright golden color.

Markets in East Asia are prepared to pay up to $400 a kg for kina, or sea urchin roe, and demand for the delicacy significantly exceeds global supply.

Christopher Jue Known as uni in Japan, sea urchin roe is considered a gourmet treat in Asia, although many Australians would baulk at tucking into the interior of these alien-like sea-dwellers.