For this dish, I substituted sea urchin "tongues" for the eggs, and karasumi (salted and cured mullet roe; it's like bottarga) in place of the cheese, but the technique is almost the same as that ...

pressed fish roe - the Japanese equivalent to bottarga). Pasta aglio e olio often calls for dried chilli flakes, but I like to add a bit of heat with pickled peperoncini (also spelled pepperoncini ...