Crab salad recipe classic ingredients. With fresh cucumber. Delicate crab salad with avocado

In the last article, we already met with different ways cooking . And we learned that such meat is combined with many products. These are various vegetables, and fruits, and cereals, and herbs. They can be cooked with other seafood, or even canned fish.

Today's salad cycle belongs to the classic category. I’ll tell you right away why they are classified that way.

In fact, everything is very simple. Since even in recent times these products were in a terrible shortage, there were practically no recipes for them. In fact, there was only one recipe in two versions.

The first included ingredients such as crab sticks, eggs, corn, rice, green onion, herbs and mayonnaise.

And in the second, a fresh cucumber was also added. That is, in summer, when vegetables were available, it was added, and in winter, when there was no such abundance of fresh vegetables in stores, it was not used accordingly.

Currently, the geography of classic salads has expanded somewhat. And I propose to get to know her better in today's article.

Classic salad recipe with cucumber, rice and corn

In this recipe, we will use crab sticks as the main ingredient. But if you are lucky enough to get the appropriate meat, then you can and should cook from it.

We will need:

crab sticks - 200 - 250 gr
eggs - 4 pcs
boiled rice - 1 cup
cucumber - 1 pc (medium)
canned corn - 1 can 300 - 350 gr
green onion - 0.5 bunch
greens, parsley or dill - 0.5 bunch
mayonnaise - to taste

I don’t use salt in this recipe, because I boil the rice in salted water, and the sticks and mayonnaise already contain salt.

But as they say, "The taste and color ..." Therefore, keep the salt in mind, and if necessary, the contents can always be salted.

Cooking:

Salad ingredients can be cut in various ways - large and small cubes, or thin straws. Or some of the components can be cut in one way, and some in another.

I will show how I did it today, and you decide for yourself how you want to see the dish.

1. First of all, you need to boil rice in lightly salted water. I would advise you to use parboiled rice. Firstly, it does not stick together, and secondly, it increases in size much stronger than usual.

Significantly, it's four times. That is, if you take 1/4 of a glass of a steamed product, you get a glass of boiled.

By the way, we just use this effect when we cook.

2. Boil eggs until hard, then peel and cut into small cubes.

3. Cut cucumbers into thin, not very long strips. It is best that the cucumber skin is not rough. Try before you cut. If it does not chew well, then it is better to clean it.

Although, of course, cucumber with its juicy green color looks better.

Chop all the ingredients and put in a bowl.

4. Cut the sticks into two or three parts and then cut into small strips, or disassemble into fibers. Also put them in a bowl.

5. Add chopped greens and rice.

6. C canned corn drain the liquid using a colander. Then pour it into the total mass.

7. Add chopped green onions and mayonnaise.

You don't need to add a lot of mayonnaise. We need to leave the taste of the products, and not replace it with the taste of one mayonnaise. Therefore, add it in doses. Put a little, mix. See what the consistency turned out to be, taste it. Is everything enough, is salt needed.

In terms of ingredients, everything should be on top, since everything has already been calculated. But add salt and mayonnaise, as you like.

8. You can serve the salad in a deep, or on a flat plate, laying it out in a slide. In both cases, it will look fresh, beautiful and very positive.

You can put it in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes to cool. And you can immediately serve it on the table.

The ingredients can be cut and two to three hours before the feast. Let this time stand in the refrigerator.

The only thing I would like to draw your attention to is that if you prepare a salad much in advance, then do not season it with mayonnaise. Refuel just before serving.

Now you can try it. It turned out, as expected, tender, satisfying, with fresh cucumber notes. The aroma is very appetizing and exciting. The taste is amazing. Although it has been prepared for the table many times, but every time you are amazed at how tasty it can be, it would seem from very simple ingredients.

Crab salad with cucumber and corn without rice

If you want to get a lower calorie result when cooking, then you can exclude rice from it. Of course, not only calories will decrease, the taste will also turn out different.

Cucumber and crab taste will be more pronounced. And a little more will appear in the taste of sweetness, this is from corn.

We will need (for two large portions):

crab sticks - 100 - 150 gr
cucumber - 1 pc.
corn - 150 gr, or 0.5 cans
eggs - 3 pcs
green onion - 2 stalks
dill, parsley - 0.5 bunch
mayonnaise - to taste
salt - to taste

For decoration:

chinese cabbage - 2 leaves
green onion - 1 - 2 feathers
greens
cucumber
pomegranate seeds - 1 tbsp. a spoon

Cooking:

I decided to make this recipe for dinner tonight. And we will have it for two persons. Therefore, I will cook it in portions, using a culinary ring for decoration and serving.

But if you wish, you can cook it in a common dish.

1. Boil eggs, cool and cut into cubes. If there is an egg cutter, then you can use it. With its help, the pieces are smooth and neat.

2. Cucumbers cut into cubes. In this recipe, we will cut all the ingredients in this way.

3. Cut the sticks lengthwise into two equal halves. Then grind them so that the size of the cubes is the same with other ingredients.

As you prepare the products, put everything in a common bowl.

4. Add chopped green onions there and spread the corn, from which all the liquid was previously drained. This must be done so that the salad does not float.

5. Add chopped greens. I decided to use both parsley and dill for a richer flavor. Parsley will give a delicate delicate taste, and dill - an incredible aroma and appearance. How can you give up something?

As well as in the previous recipe, you should not enter it much. Do it gradually, you can always add if the need arises.

7. Mix the mass and try. You can add some salt if needed.

8. Then prepare two serving bowls and a metal cooking ring. If there are two rings, then cook them both. If there is one, then we will do it in turn.

Line the bottom of the plate with a green leaf and place the culinary ring in the center. Fill it tightly with salad, lightly tamping the contents with a tablespoon around the entire circumference. This must be done very carefully if you will serve immediately. If the mass is loose, then it will not hold its shape and fall apart.

9. You can send the dish to the refrigerator for 30 minutes. But you can immediately remove the ring and continue decorating.

Make slits on the onion and form branches. Cut thin strips from the cucumber with a vegetable peeler, fold them in half. Arrange everything nicely and sprinkle with pomegranate seeds.

And you can serve it to the table. This is the beauty we have. And not only beauty, but also deliciousness!

Salad with crab sticks and green apple

Cucumber in some versions of the salad can be omitted. And use instead green apple. I also know that not everyone likes mayonnaise. So do not refuse them a delicious meal! Moreover, you can always find an alternative to mayonnaise. And I suggest replacing it with a sour cream based dressing.

We will need:

crab sticks - 200 gr
boiled eggs - 5 pieces
corn - 1 can
boiled rice - 1 cup
green apple - 1 pc.

For refueling:

vegetable oil- 3 tbsp. spoons
apple cider vinegar 6% - 1 tbsp. a spoon
mustard - 1 teaspoon
sour cream - 7 tbsp. spoons
salt - 2 pinches

Cooking:

The salad is very simple. And it can be prepared both for a holiday and for everyday meals. It is clear that if you decide to cook it for the holiday, then you need to think about how to decorate it. If you cook for lunch or dinner, then you can serve it right in the bowl in which we cook it.

Or shift to a more beautiful one.

1. Boil and cool rice in advance. If you are using regular rice, then take it in dry form a little less than half a glass, or maybe half. During cooking, it will double in volume.

If you use steamed rice, then take it dry only 1/4 cup. As I said, it will increase four times during cooking.

2. Peel the apple and cut into cubes. Also cut eggs and crab sticks. Put everything in a bowl.

3. Add corn, which must first be drained of all liquid.

And then chilled rice. Salt to taste and stir.

4. Prepare dressing. To do this, simply mix all the ingredients. If not apple cider vinegar, but there is a lemon, then you can add it. As well as one tablespoon of vinegar.

The dressing will have the same consistency as mayonnaise.

5. Upload content necessary quantity gas stations. If the sour cream was thick, then the entire dressing will go away, but if it is watery, then it may remain. But it's better to have more than not enough. And then you have to spend time to finish it. It can be used for another dish. Until then, store in the refrigerator.

Everything, you can immediately serve to the table and enjoy a delicate, pleasant and fresh taste.

Recipe with crab sticks and white cabbage

I don’t know if such a dish can be attributed to today’s topic of recipes. But still, in the literature, I met a description that this particular recipe is a classic in this class.

We will need:

crab sticks - 200 gr
fresh cucumber - 2 pcs
white cabbage - 200 - 250 gr
boiled potatoes - 3 pcs
corn - 1 can
boiled eggs - 4 pcs
greens - 0.5 bunch
mayonnaise - to taste

Cooking:

The preparation of the dish is very, very simple. Therefore, it does not require a particularly thorough description of the steps.

1. Dice cucumber, sticks, potatoes and eggs. Cut the cabbage into small short strips. Transfer all chopped ingredients to a bowl.

2. Add canned corn, from which all the water must first be drained. Chop and add fresh herbs.

3. Salt to taste and season with mayonnaise.

If you have prepared a salad, but you will not eat it immediately, then do not season with mayonnaise ahead of time. Refuel before serving.

Here is such a simple and quick recipe.

By the way, you can not use potatoes in this recipe. In this form and combination, it will turn out to be easier. In this case, you can fill it with the dressing that was suggested in the previous recipe.

And cabbage can be taken not only white, but also Beijing. We have already prepared. But there is no such thing. But there is a video recipe in which you can see how to make a flower from a head of this cabbage.

And here I would also like to put a video.

red caviar salad recipe

In this video, you can clearly see the entire process of preparing a salad. And if something was not clear from the description, here you can fill in the gap.

And also, you can see how an easy-to-prepare salad can be decorated and served for the holiday. This is just one of the options. You can decorate and serve as your imagination tells you.

Crab salad "Corn"

For example, my fantasy told me to arrange it in the form of corn. In this case, the recipe can be taken absolutely any of the options proposed today.

You can cook the workpiece even with rice, even without it; even add a cucumber, though not. But two components in the salad must be present - this is crab meat, or sticks and canned corn.

I was a little lazy, and just sprinkled the cob with corn grains. Well, maybe I was not even too lazy, but simply did not find the right time for the correct design. After all, here it will need a lot.

And not for cooking, but for laying it out.

That is, first you need to cut all the ingredients. Then fill the contents with mayonnaise and put the blank in the form of a cob on a plate.

And then the most interesting begins. The grains must be inserted into the vegetable mass in the way they are located in a real cob. That is, one after another and in order.

It's about how to put together a puzzle. After all, the grains in the bank are all different sizes.

But it also turned out beautifully. And delicious! I know this because the cob has already been eaten.

To prepare it, you need a few less products than for a regular salad. I'll write the ratio.

crab sticks - 100 gr (or meat)
cucumber - 1 pc.
egg - 2 pcs
green onion - 1 stalk
greens - 0.5 bunch
canned corn - 1 can
mayonnaise and salt to taste

Rice can be added or left out. As you wish.

Well, this option is left for last.

In principle, there is nothing complicated in preparing salads. The composition of the ingredients is simple, the preparation is simple. And the result is always a five plus. Therefore, they love to cook it for many holidays.

The only difference is whether to add this or that product, or not. This applies, I repeat, cucumber and rice. Well, sometimes instead of corn you can meet green pea. Such a change is also allowed in cooking.

And not so long ago, I added fresh grated carrots to the composition of the ingredients. And this option also came to the taste of all households.

So, the most important thing is not to be afraid to experiment. After all, as you know, we eat not the name, but the dish. And most importantly, that it turned out appetizing and tasty. Therefore, if you like salads with crab meat, or crab sticks, and often cook them, then make a variety. It is always interesting, and almost always the result is joyful and tasty.

And I would like to finish today. I wish you delicious and creative success in preparing salads in particular, and dishes in general.

Enjoy your meal!

Good afternoon friends!

Salads with crab sticks appeared on our tables relatively recently, but have already gained popularity among housewives. Simple and delicious salad recipes appeared in great numbers, and diversified the traditional holiday menu.

This delicious semi-finished product does not need any additional processing, it is combined with many products, which makes it possible to invent every time new recipe lettuce.

If earlier the classic recipe was prepared only with crab sticks, rice, eggs and corn, now hostesses prepare salads with apples, oranges, pineapples, mushrooms, shrimp, crab meat, tomatoes and cheese for the festive table.

Dressings have also undergone changes, now you can cook without mayonnaise, replacing it with olive oil in combination with soy sauce, or with vegetable oil, mustard and wine vinegar.

I used to mistakenly believe that crab sticks were made from crabs. It turned out that this is an analogue of crab meat made from minced meat of white fish (surimi), cod species. The compositions also include egg powder and starch. During processing, surimi preserves the taste and useful substances: iodine, sodium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, zinc and vitamins B1 and B2.

So you are waiting delicious salads, which can be prepared for a friendly party, for a birthday, for any holiday table, and, of course, for His Majesty New Year! And I promise you many recipes!

Classic salad recipe with crab sticks, egg and corn

Very simple and delicious recipe. The salad is prepared quickly, on hastily, because the main ingredients do not require cooking. We only need beautiful cut and decoration.

Ingredients:

crab sticks - 1 pack
fresh cucumber - 2-3 pcs.
boiled rice - 1 cup
boiled eggs - 2 pcs.
mayonnaise - to taste
salt - to taste
onion - 1 pc.
greenery - for decoration

Cooking:

Crab sticks are the main ingredient in all salads, they must be of high quality, because the final taste of the dish depends on them. If surimi is in the first place in the composition, then the fish in it makes up most of the volume. Otherwise, soy protein was used.
They should be neat and even, juicy and elastic. Painted should be on one side from light pink to bright red. Too bright indicates an excess amount of dye. The main part of the stick is white. If it is gray, then low-value fish species and a large amount of flour were used in the production. Yellow color is a sign of stale raw materials.
It is better to take chilled sticks, as a last resort, frozen ones. Do not forget to look at the information about the manufacturer.
We cut the sticks as we wish: into strips, cubes obliquely, slices or disassemble into fibers.
We chop fresh cucumber and hard-boiled eggs in the same way as chopsticks.
Pour boiling water over the chopped onion so that all the bitterness comes out. Or use fresh green onions.
For the salad, we need tender and tasty corn, milky ripeness. In general, it goes well with many products and gives any salad a spicy sweetish aftertaste. When buying canned corn, we also pay attention to the date of manufacture. Produced in summer period or at the beginning of autumn, it is natural.
Drain liquid from corn.
One of the commonly used ingredients in crab salad is boiled rice. We take long-grain, boil in salted water. Such rice better than those that during cooking, very little starch is released from it, unlike round varieties.
Put all the ingredients in a bowl, add mayonnaise and salt to taste. We mix, we try, and now is the time to bring the salad to the perfect taste.
We spread it in a deep salad bowl, on a flat plate with a slide or in tartlets, decorate with greens.

Salad "Original" with crab sticks, mushrooms and cheese

This puff salad perfect for a festive table, looks elegant and appetizing.

Ingredients:

crab sticks - 1 pack
mushrooms - 1 tbsp.
canned corn - 1 can
onion - 1 pc.
boiled eggs - 3 pcs.
hard cheese - 100 g
sour cream / mayonnaise - to taste
salt - to taste
fresh dill for garnish

Cooking:

The originality of this salad is that we will lay out all the ingredients, without mixing, in layers, spreading them with sour cream / mayonnaise.
The first layer is corn, then comes a layer of mushrooms fried in oil with chopped onions.
The next layer is rubbed on coarse grater cheese, grated boiled eggs on it.
We finish with finely chopped crab sticks.
We decorate with greenery.
Look how easy beautiful salad turned out, and the recipe is quite simple and quick.

Festive recipe for Tsarsky salad with crab sticks, shrimp and red caviar

Take note the best recipe this salad, you won't regret it. See how to cook it

Ingredients:

shrimp - 300 g
crab sticks - 300 g
red caviar - 100 g
quail eggs - 6 pcs.
capers - 2 tbsp. l.
tomatoes without pulp - 2 pcs.
green onions - 1/2 bunch
black olives - 1/2 jar
mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l.
fresh dill
salt - to taste
ground pepper - to taste
spices for seafood - to taste

Delicious salad "Red Sea" with crab sticks and tomatoes

This bright, beautiful salad made from fresh vegetables always turns out juicy and very tasty.

Ingredients:

crab sticks - 1 pack
large tomato - 1 pc.
bell pepper- 1 PC.
hard cheese - 100 g
mayonnaise - 21 tbsp. l.
garlic - 2 cloves
salt - to taste

Simple and tender "Royal" salad with orange

Ready salad immediately after preparation to serve to the table. It will look beautiful on a flat dish along with 2-3 slices of oranges. Well, if you absolutely want to conquer your guests, then serve it in glasses from orange peel- incredibly effective and original.

Ingredients:

crab sticks (or meat) - 1 pack
oranges - 2 pieces (or pineapples)
egg - 3 pieces
canned corn - 1 can
garlic - 1 clove
mayonnaise - to taste

Cooking:

Boil eggs hard boiled. Remove the shell and chop finely.
Cut the crab sticks into thin rings.
Open the can of corn and drain the liquid. If the liquid in the jar is too thick, then the corn can be washed.
We clean the oranges from the peel and white films, divide into slices. Cut in half.
For spice, finely chop a clove of garlic.
In a deep bowl, mix all the ingredients, season with mayonnaise.

Appetizer-salad "Red Tulips" with crab sticks and cucumber

An original salad with a chic "bouquet" of red tulips, which you can not only admire, but also taste. it beautiful dish can be prepared for the birthday of your beloved, on March 8, it will take center stage on any festive table.

Ingredients:

crab sticks - 300 g
boiled chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
apple - 1 pc.
hard cheese - 70 g
green onion feathers - 80 g
canned corn - 1 can
tomatoes - 3 pcs.
mayonnaise - 150 g

Cooking:

Cut crab sticks and boiled eggs into very small pieces.
We clean the green apple from the peel and core. We rub on a fine grater.
We also do hard cheese.
Put all the grated ingredients in a deep bowl, add corn and mayonnaise, mix. The filling for flowers is ready.
Cream tomatoes are perfect for this salad.
Prepared tomatoes, cut crosswise. Carefully remove the pulp from the inside of the fruit. We start each tomato with the prepared stuffing.
Assemble the salad on a flat serving plate.
Lay out the green onions. We spread the tomatoes tulips and give them the appearance of a bouquet. We complement the decoration with thin slices of cucumbers.

Easy Crab Salad Recipe Without Rice

Original salad with cauliflower and crab sticks

Ingredients:

crab sticks - 200 g
cauliflower - 300 g
bell pepper - 1 pc.
onion - 1 pc.
boiled egg - 2 pcs.
mayonnaise - to taste
salt - to taste
lettuce or celery

Cooking:

For cooking, you can use any cabbage: white and red, sea, cauliflower. In all cases, light and tasty salads will turn out.
We disassemble the cauliflower into inflorescences. It can be steamed in the microwave. We boil in salted water for 8-10 minutes until tender. We cool. If the inflorescences are large, we cut them into large cubes, if they are small, then we leave them in their original form.
We take bell peppers of bright colors, red, yellow or orange. The salad will turn out bright and beautiful. We clean the stalk and cut into large cubes.
Cut boiled eggs and onion into cubes. Pour boiling water over the onion so that all the bitterness comes out.
Cut lettuce leaves.
Put all the chopped vegetables in a deep bowl, add the rings of crab sticks and season with mayonnaise, salt if necessary.
The same salad can be made dietary if you change the dressing and cook it without mayonnaise. Refueling options: olive oil With soy sauce or vegetable oil with mustard and wine vinegar.
Here's the salad. Try it, it has a very original taste.

Layered salad "With love" with crab meat

Ingredients:

crab sticks - 1 pack
crab meat - 1 pack
egg - 5 pcs.
parsley
mayonnaise

for decoration

Red caviar
shrimps

Cooking:

Crab meat and squid cut into strips.
Separately, grate egg whites and yolks on a coarse grater.
Finely chop the parsley.
We will lay out the ingredients in layers, in a heart-shaped baking dish, spreading each layer with mayonnaise.
We collect the salad in the following order: crab meat, parsley, egg white, squid, egg yolk, red caviar.
Top with shrimp.

Salad "Gentle" with crab sticks and green apple

This salad recipe, unlike the classic one, is prepared without corn, we will replace it with an apple. The dish is light and tender, with a fresh apple flavor.

Ingredients:

crab sticks - 200 g
boiled egg - 5 pcs.
mayonnaise - to taste
apple - 1 pc.
boiled rice - 1/2 tbsp.

Almost all housewives serve classic crab stick salads on the festive table, which delight with exquisite taste, appetizing appearance and satiety. The dish is loved by many for its juicy texture, delicate texture, but not every culinary specialist knows all the secrets of combining products for this snack.

How to cook classic crab salad

If you don't know how to cook crab salad classic, start by choosing the ingredients. Real crab meat is considered a delicacy. It is not always available in stores, and the price is extremely high. The original crab meat has a delicate taste, useful vitamin composition, and is well absorbed by the body. It is used in cooking, more often in restaurants - boiled, mixed with vegetables and complex dressing. Sometimes you can find canned crab meat that differs from fresh more spicy taste.

In ordinary stores, in mass production, crab meat was replaced with an analogue - classic sticks minced surimi based on white meat cod and other fish. Such cheap product replaces a delicacy on the table in ordinary families, gives salads tenderness, lightness, and in combination with spicy ingredients - piquancy and richness. There are many cooking recipes hearty snacks based on crab sticks - you can make a beautiful festive dish out of them that looks great in the photo, or cook a delicious simple snack on every day.

Salads with crab sticks are good as snacks at work, you can take them with you on a picnic. Preparing the dish is easy - you just need to chop all the ingredients, mix and season with sauce. If natural fresh meat is used, it must be boiled in salted boiling water with bay leaves and black peppercorns for exactly 3 minutes (if you cook longer, the meat will become tough and rubbery).

Canned meat requires a different treatment - after opening the jar, you need to drain the brine, cut the flesh into strips or pieces. Chilled or frozen sticks just need to be cut into pieces or chopped in a blender. To give originality, you can lightly fry the sticks in butter or vegetable oil so that you get a golden crisp. So it will turn out to cook delicious warm and hot salads in Asian style.

Dressing can be classic mayonnaise, heavy sour cream or more complex sauces based on olive oil, lemon juice and mustard with spices. The original sauce will be lime juice with red pepper, Dijon mustard or white wine vinegar. Good combination taste is obtained by mixing crab sticks with shrimp, squid, salted fish. This option is delicious to season with tartar sauce with pickled cucumbers or "1000 Islands".

If you want to add to the appetizer meat products or something else hearty, ham, cheese, eggs are good. If you choose from canned vegetables, then green peas, beans, even pineapples will do. Experiment with fresh vegetables, fruits and greens are possible without restrictions.

classic crab salad recipes

On the Internet it is easy to find any step by step recipe crab salad with detailed description and accompaniment in the form of photo or video lessons of each stage. This makes cooking easier for novice cooks who are still poorly versed in the kitchen or do not immediately figure out how to process crab meat (if natural is used) and what to combine the delicacy with.

Delicious dishes are obtained with the addition of canned corn, crackers or fresh tomatoes with paprika. You can use pickled or fresh cucumbers, mushrooms in any form and any variety, cabbage - white, Beijing or cauliflower, canned seaweed (very healthy and rich in iodine) or chukka seaweed is also suitable.

with corn

The classic for many salad with corn and crab sticks has a pleasant fresh taste due to the addition of green onion feathers and fresh cucumbers. It turns out tasty, but at the same time light, sweet due to the use of canned dessert corn. If you prefer more savory combinations, add black ground pepper.

Ingredients:

eggs - 4 pcs.;
imitation of crab meat - 250 g;
fresh cucumber - 2 pcs.;
green onions - 5 stalks;
mayonnaise - 100 ml.

Cooking method:

Chop the cucumbers into thin strips up to 2 cm wide, chop the onion.
Cut the meat into strips. Drain the corn in a colander.
Boil the eggs, rub, mix with the rest of the ingredients.
Season with mayonnaise, salt to taste.
It is best to serve an appetizer on lettuce leaves, laying out a slide.

With crab meat

There is an option on how to cook crab meat corn salad, showing imagination. This will appeal to all family members or guests who come to the celebration of the solemn event: to give a bright unusual taste to the appetizer oranges. It is better to choose sweet varieties of rich red color.

Ingredients:

crab meat - 0.2 kg;
sweet orange - 2 pcs.;
eggs - 3 pcs.;
canned corn - a can;
garlic - a slice;
mayonnaise - 100 ml.

Cooking method:

Boil eggs, cool, cut into small cubes.
Chop crab meat.
Drain liquid from corn.
Peel the oranges, divide into slices, cut with a sharp knife (so as not to squeeze the juice) into pieces.
Pass the garlic through a press.
Mix all ingredients, season with mayonnaise.

with cabbage

It is easy to cook classic salad from crab sticks with cabbage. You can use any cabbage for cooking, but the basic recipe involves white cabbage. If it is not young, then after shredding, sprinkle the leaves with a little salt, mash with your hands until the juice comes out. For a more delicate taste, it is recommended to fill the appetizer with sour cream with the addition of fresh herbs (as in the photo).

Ingredients:

eggs - 3 pcs.;
surimi sticks - 0.25 kg;
White cabbage- 150 g;
canned corn - a can;
fresh dill - a bunch;
sour cream 15% fat - half a glass.

Cooking method:

Hard boil eggs.
Grind the sticks, chop the cabbage into thin ribbons.
Mix all the ingredients with the corn, previously thrown into a colander.
After cooling, cut the eggs into cubes, add to the rest of the products.
Season the dish with chopped dill, sour cream, salt.
Let stand in the refrigerator for 15 minutes, then serve.

with rice

Classic festive dish salad with crab sticks and rice has long been recognized. Due to the use of cereals, it has a high calorie content, quickly saturates. A hearty appetizer can act as an independent dish, and if you add boiled squid rings to it, you get not only hearty, but also gourmet food.

Ingredients:

rice - a glass;
squid - half a kilo;
crab sticks - packaging;
canned corn - 300 g;
seaweed - 200 g;
mayonnaise - 100 ml.

Cooking method:

Boil rice until tender.
Boil squids by dipping in boiling water for 5-7 minutes.
Cut the squid into rings, having previously cleared the film and the insides.
Mix with rice, crushed crab sticks, corn and shredded sea kale.
Salt, pepper, season with mayonnaise.

With Chinese cabbage

More delicate taste compared with original recipe has a salad with Beijing cabbage and crab sticks. It is easy to prepare and can be considered diet dish, especially if you use kefir for dressing or fat-free sour cream. Sugar or black pepper can be added to the sauce (depending on preference).

Ingredients:

Beijing cabbage - 0.4 kg;
crab sticks - 240 g;
canned corn - 250 g;
green onions - 3 stalks;
sour cream - 100 g.

Cooking method:

Peking cabbage chop, salt, grind with your hands.
Cut the sticks into cubes, chop the onion.
Mix all the ingredients, season with sour cream, pepper and salt.

with cucumber

Another simple classic recipe tasty snack there will be an option how to cook a salad of crab sticks with cucumber. You can use fresh, salted or pickled vegetables for this - due to the variety, the main notes will differ, so there is a chance to please any gourmet. Dressing can also vary - vegetable oil, sour cream or mayonnaise.

Ingredients:

imitation of crab meat - 100 g;
fresh cucumber - 1 pc.;
greens - a bunch;
lettuce leaves- 5 pieces.;
canned green peas - 50 g;
onion - 1 pc.;
wine vinegar - 10 ml;
sour cream - 75 g.

Cooking method:

Finely chop the meat, chop the cucumber into strips.
Cut the onion into half rings, marinate in vinegar for 10 minutes. If the onion is old, you first need to pour boiling water over the rings so that bitterness comes out.
Mix all the ingredients, season with salt, pepper, season with sour cream. Arrange on washed lettuce leaves.

With cheese

Crab salad with cheese is an interesting combination of ingredients. In addition to it, the recipe assumes the use of hard cheese and chicken fillet. For serving on the festive table, it is recommended to offer guests dried slices of bread, crackers or rings of dense fresh cucumber along with the dish. They are convenient to take a snack in portions, without using cutlery.

Ingredients:

chicken fillet- 100 g;
hard cheese - 100 g;
imitation crab meat - 125 g;
mayonnaise - 100 ml.

Cooking method:

Boil the chicken, cut into small pieces.
Cut the meat into cubes, grate the cheese finely.
Mix ingredients with classic mayonnaise, pepper, salt to taste.

With shrimps

original dish Asian cuisine, which is a success at our feasts - light salad from shrimp and crab sticks, which is usually served warm. The savory spicy combination of Chinese noodles and lime juice with avocado and parsley perfectly sets off the familiar taste of seafood. If you don't like shrimp, try adding mussels or scallops.

Ingredients:

shrimp - 100 g;
bell pepper - 1 pc.;
imitation of crab meat - 125 g;
funchose - 100 g;
red onion - 1 pc.;
parsley - a bunch;
olive oil - 30 ml;
lime - 1 pc.

Cooking method:

Boil the shrimp, remove the shell.
Leave one for decoration, chop the rest.
Finely chop the meat, chop the paprika into cubes, onion into half rings.
Boil funchose, mix with the rest of the ingredients.
Season with oil, lime juice. Serve garnished with a whole shrimp surrounded by lime wedges and chopped parsley.

puff

An attractive puff salad of crab sticks looks attractive, which can be prepared in just a few minutes. The secret is that all components do not require additional processing, they will only need to be crushed and seasoned with the original sauce. In conditions of lack of time, the classic will help out lean mayonnaise mixed with chopped herbs and a clove of garlic.

Ingredients:

imitation of crab meat - packaging;
tomato - 1 pc.;
mayonnaise - 30 ml;
garlic - a slice;
cheese - 50 g;
potato chips- 4 things.

Cooking method:

Meat with tomatoes cut into cubes. Crush garlic, mix with mayonnaise.
Lay out in layers: sticks, then tomatoes, mayonnaise sauce, chips, grated cheese.
Serve immediately so the chips don't get soggy.

With pineapples

An unusual piquant taste is distinguished by a salad of crab sticks with pineapple. The sourness of it exotic fruit emphasizes the softness and tenderness of the main component, goes well with onions and creamy hard cheese. The dish looks good and tasty on the festive table, all guests will be satisfied with it.

Ingredients:

rice - 100 g;
canned pineapple- 400 g;
imitation crab meat - 200 g;
onion - 1 pc.;
cheese - 250 g;
mayonnaise -100 ml.

Cooking method:

Boil rice, mix with pineapple pieces, chopped meat.
Finely chop the onion, grate the cheese coarsely.
Mix all ingredients, season mayonnaise sauce, salt if necessary.

With natural crab

To cook classic crab natural salad, you need to get fresh product or, in extreme cases, frozen claws. It is best to buy in the market from a trusted merchant, but you can get by with the products of a good fish store. Fresh crab cooks quickly, and it is important not to overcook it in order to prevent stiffness and a rubbery consistency. Properly boiled meat has a slightly sweet taste, white color and exquisite aroma, therefore it is part of the delicacies.

Ingredients:

quinoa - 80 g;
mango - 1 pc.;
avocado - 1 pc.;
fresh cucumber - 100 g;
apple - 1 pc.;
fresh mint - 5 g;
lettuce leaves - 100 g;
lemon juice - 50 ml;
vegetable oil - 30 ml;
king prawns - 16 pcs.;
crab meat - 120 g.

Cooking method:

Pour quinoa with water, cook for a quarter of an hour, cool.
Peel mango, avocado, cucumber and apple, cut into cubes.
Defrost shrimp, boil in salted water, then peel. Tails can not be cut off.
Boil crab claws, then disassemble into fibers.
Make a sauce with lemon juice and butter.
Rinse the lettuce leaves, tear them with your hands, put them on the bottom of the salad bowl.
Lay the cubes of vegetables, fruits, seafood on top, pour over the sauce. Decorate with mint leaves.

With mushrooms

A salad of crab sticks with mushrooms, which looks elegant and has a balanced composition, is distinguished by a harmonious taste. Such a dish can rightly be called a classic dietary dish, since all the ingredients in it have a reduced calorie content. It turns out light dish decorating the table and delighting all guests. Plus, it cooks quickly.

Ingredients:

fresh champignons - 4 pcs.;
Chinese cabbage - 100 g;
cherry tomatoes - 5 pcs.;
imitation crab meat - 70 g;
garlic - a slice;
pitted olives - 30 g;
olive oil - 50 ml.

Cooking method:

Cut the mushrooms into slices, chop the cabbage into strips.
Cut tomatoes in half, olives in rings.
Chop the meat into strips, crush the garlic in a press.
Mix garlic, olive oil for sauce, season with salt and pepper.
Put cabbage on the bottom of the salad bowl, crabs and mushrooms on top, pour over the dressing, garnish with tomatoes and olives.

With crackers

Salads with croutons and crab sticks are tasty and satisfying. This is a budget option for a festive dish that can please even the most capricious guests. It takes very little time to prepare an appetizer if there are ready-made classic croutons. Otherwise, you will have to dry the bread grated with garlic and spices in the oven to give the appetizer a richer taste and aroma, but if you do not insist on croutons home production, you can buy any crackers from the package.

Ingredients:

hard cheese - 0.3 kg;
imitation crab meat - 250 g;
crackers - 100 g;
eggs - 4 pcs.;
garlic - 2 cloves;
lemon - 0.5 pcs.;
mayonnaise - 75 ml.

Cooking method:

Cut sticks into small pieces.
Boil eggs, cut into cubes.
Coarsely grate the cheese, crush the garlic with a press.
Mix all ingredients, sprinkle with lemon juice. Season with mayonnaise sauce.
Put in a salad bowl, decorate with croutons.
Serve immediately so that the croutons do not have time to soak from the sauce.

with an apple

Olivier is considered a classic holiday dish, but many are tired of the traditional version of this dish. Try to make it more original, for example, as a similar alternative, prepare a salad of crab sticks with an apple, which will be more tender and mild taste. Guests will definitely appreciate such a culinary masterpiece, which will be lighter and more tender than the classic version.

Ingredients:

crab sticks - packaging;
fresh apple - 1 pc.;
chicken breast- 200 g;
potatoes - 5 pcs.;
onions - 1 pc.;
pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
egg - 5 pcs.;
mayonnaise - 100 ml.

Cooking method:

Boil the breast in salted water, cool, separate the bone, cut into cubes.
Boil the potatoes in their skins, cool, peel, cut into cubes.
Hard boil eggs, cut into cubes.
Finely chop pickled cucumbers with chopsticks.
Remove the peel from the apple, cut into slices, chop the onion.
Mix all ingredients, season with classic mayonnaise sauce, salt and pepper.
Pickled cucumbers can be replaced with pickles, after squeezing them to prevent the liquid from draining to the bottom.

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Like all salads, crab salad is a combination of the main ingredient - boiled crab meat with other products with which it can be harmoniously combined. As a rule, all the ingredients are ground in one way or another, depending on the creative mood of the home cook. A very important conducting component of crab salad is, of course, the sauce.

But as the well-known proverb says: “For lack of a stamp, we write on a simple one (we are talking about paper).” This is because crab meat is more difficult to acquire than popular crab sticks, which may not have been lying next to crabs. But they taste good enough and even compete with real crab meat in terms of tenderness and juiciness, not to mention the price and availability of purchase.

This pseudo-crab delicacy was invented, as you know, in Japan, where they won’t let any good go to waste, and they cook it from minced white fish trimmings. In Europe, the technology for making crab sticks was mastered by adding minced fish crushed into a paste of corn. And then natural dyes and flavorings have brought this product to such a look and taste that it is readily eaten, especially in various salads.

However, let's get back to crab meat, which has its own powerful trump cards against crab sticks. Genuine crab meat has a powerful range of essential B vitamins: B1, B3, B5; A. In addition, the presence of a fairly large list of valuable trace elements, including calcium and magnesium. By itself, crab meat, which has a salty-sweet flavor, is tender and very appetizing.

Boiled crab meat is used in various salads, but canned crab can be successfully replaced. Only sophisticated gourmets will feel the difference, especially in combination with cucumbers, corn and salad dressing.

In our country, salads made from crab sticks or even from crab meat have been made from the moment they appeared on the market. Not long inventing, our people in all the famous salads that were prepared on home cooking, introduced mayonnaise as the main salad dressing. This tradition has been entrenched to this day: if not mayonnaise, then a homemade version of it with various additives.

We do not know the exact number of recipes for salads with crab meat or crab sticks, but we suspect that there are a great many of them, thanks to a rich set of various ingredients, up to exotic fruits.

From a set of crab salads that we liked and tried at home, we present the most interesting recipes.

Classic crab salad recipe

The ingredient composition of such a salad can be considered basic for all its further options, which depend on your taste, the desire to diversify it, and even on the availability of currently available ingredients. In dietary terms, such salads could be considered light, but the introduction of mayonnaise does not allow this, except that mayonnaise will be with a minimum presence of calories. And given its energy capacity, it is desirable to eat such a dish in the morning.

Ingredients for 4 servings of the classic crab salad recipe:

crab meat or crab sticks - 200 grams;
canned corn - 1 standard can;
fresh cucumber - 1 piece of medium size;
hard-boiled chicken eggs- 6 items;
mayonnaise - 150 grams.

According to the classic recipe for crab salad, cook like this:

Boil fresh hard-boiled chicken eggs in advance, which are first cooled, and then cooled in the refrigerator. Before introducing them into the salad, peel them from the shell, rinse under running water to avoid shell particles. Grind the peeled eggs with a knife or using modern devices.
Open canned corn, pour out its juice.
Fresh cucumbers, washed and dried, peeled and cut into small cubes. Salt a little and let drain to avoid excessive juiciness of the whole salad. Although, as an option, you can cut a fresh cucumber immediately before serving crab salad to the table.
Cut the chilled crab sticks into cubes and place all the ingredients in a salad bowl, season with mayonnaise and mix evenly.

The cooking process itself takes no more than 20 minutes if the eggs are cooked in advance. The question of "salt" is a matter of your personal taste. Serve such a crab salad, as a rule, chilled, but if all its ingredients are cooled in advance, then you can go straight to the table.

Adding a green apple to it according to the recipe will pleasantly change the taste of a classic crab salad, which will bring a bright sweet and sour note, and the absence of boiled eggs in this salad composition will not damage its overall original taste.

In order for the note mentioned above to be clearly pronounced, an apple will need exactly a sweet and sour variety with well-formed pulp so that it does not fall apart in the salad mass.

Ingredients:

crab meat or sticks - 400 grams;
fresh green apples - 2 pieces;
Chinese cabbage (Beijing) - 1 head;
lemon - 0.5 pieces for juice;
olive or vegetable oil - 6 tablespoons;
fresh garlic - 2 cloves;
green onions - a small bunch;
fresh parsley - a small bunch;
salt and black ground pepper - by preference;
apple cider vinegar - 2 tablespoons.

According to the recipe for crab salad with green apple, cook like this:

Wash and dry apples. If they are bought in a store, then be sure to remove the peel from them. Next, cut them into 4 parts and remove the core. Peel the garlic.
Prepare dressing puree from 1 apple and garlic with oil and apple cider vinegar in a blender. Salt a little and place to cool in the refrigerator for a quarter of an hour.
The remaining peeled apple, with the center carefully removed while maintaining the shape of the apple, cut into thin rings and sprinkled immediately lemon juice so that they do not become dark, although this does not exclude their darkening after a long time.
Wash the fresh greens, let the water drain and, after drying with a paper towel, chop finely, like Chinese cabbage.
Cut crab meat or sticks into medium-sized cubes and combine with all of the above ingredients in a salad bowl. All, pouring apple-garlic puree, mix evenly. Level the surface of the salad and garnish with apple rings and parsley sprigs.

Of course, the crab salad in this version differs from the classic one in that only the base remains of it - crab meat or sticks. but it has a great advantage - sauce dressing without mayonnaise - and it will be appreciated by those who do not use mayonnaise at all.

Yes, participation in the crab salad of this exotic fruit for many is pleasant and unexpected, but acceptable news. In addition, in addition to the exotic note, tangible nutritional value comes with mango. And a full-fledged sauce will combine the ingredients of this salad the best way, we are sure, and will please even the most demanding gourmets.

Salad Ingredients:

crab meat (optimal!) - 200 grams;
ripe mango - 1 piece of medium size;
canned corn on the cob (optimal!) or regular canned food - 1 can;
petiole celery - 2 stalks;

Sauce Ingredients:

cream 30% - 4 tablespoons;
vegetable oil - 100 milliliters;
ready-made mustard - 0.5 teaspoon;
tabasco sauce - 0.5 teaspoon;
fresh chicken egg, yolk - 1;
ketchup natural without additives - 1 tablespoon;
table salt - to taste.

According to an exotic recipe, crab salad is prepared as follows:

It’s better to start by preparing the sauce so that it has time to infuse while you work with the salad itself. Separate the yolk from the protein in a small bowl, add mustard to it and rub with a whisk until smooth, without stopping rubbing them, gradually add vegetable oil. Next, we introduce Tabasco sauce, ketchup and, last of all, lightly whipped cream. The whole sauce mass, salt to taste, stir until its composition is completely homogeneous and place in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
The rest of the crab salad cooking can be done during this time, for which you should take the prepared celery stalks and cut them thinly into cubes across.
Washed and dried with a paper towel, peel the mango, remove the stone from it, sprinkle with lemon juice, and then cut into centimeter cubes.
It remains to cut the prepared crab meat into cubes and combine all the ingredients in a salad vase, stirring lettuce mass to homogeneity. Top with sauce and sprinkle with chopped celery leaves.

Like all spicy salads, crab salad needs a short cooling and soaking of its entire mass with sauce.

Crab salad and how to serve it

An interesting way to serve crab salad is to spread it over green apple circles. For this, a large green apple is used, peeled, but with a whole core, after peeling the seeds so that there is no hole in the apple mug. Cut the apple into thin circles and arrange on portioned plates. Put a spoonful of the finished salad on top of the apple mug, and place the second on it and decorate with something of your choice, for example, a fresh parsley leaf.

Considering that crab salad should not be infused for a long time due to the participation of cabbage or cucumber in it, it should be cooked and served right before the festive feast.

You can decorate crab salad according to well-known patterns that can be found on the Internet, or show your personal creativity. Usually, most salads are decorated with sprigs of fresh herbs or figures of boiled beautifully colored vegetables, and so on.

It should be recalled that crab salads are organically combined with alcoholic drinks: vodka, whiskey, cognac. From the lighter ones - with white table wine.

Crab salad fits perfectly into any everyday or holiday menu, and its variants without mayonnaise do not lead to overeating.

Crab sticks have long been very popular among housewives. They are most often used in the preparation of a variety of salads. They have a pronounced taste, as close as possible to natural crab meat. It makes it possible to cook not only delicious, but chic dishes.

Advice

The more expensive the product is, the less it contains soy protein and the more surimi in it.

To prepare such a simple, but at the same time, delicious dish, you need products such as 250 grams of crab sticks and 200 grams of canned corn, 3 boiled eggs, 90 grams of dry rice, 15 grams of onions, 100 grams of mayonnaise, as well as salt and pepper. The dish is extremely simple, however, and its preparation has some specific nuances. The taste of such a salad with crab meat will depend on the characteristics of the cutting of the ingredients. For example, crab sticks can be cut very finely or very coarsely, or you can even grate them. Do the same with eggs. In accordance with the classic recipe, all components are cut into identical cubes.

Preparing this salad

Rice is poured into boiling water, boiled until tender. You have to make sure it doesn't boil over. Then the rice is leaned back in a colander, washed with barely warm, boiled water. Boiled eggs with crab sticks are peeled and cut into small cubes. Half of an onion head is crumbled very finely. This is optional, onions can be omitted. But with it, the salad will be more juicy. Liquid is drained from corn. Then, in a deep salad bowl, crab sticks are combined with rice, corn, onions and eggs. Everything is salted, peppered and seasoned with mayonnaise.

To prepare this variation of the salad, you need products such as 1 pack of crab sticks, 1 medium onion, 1 can of corn, 1-2 medium-sized fresh cucumbers, 4 eggs, mayonnaise, herbs to taste and salt. Crab sticks go well with a wide variety of ingredients, this allows you to indulge yourself with new flavors of salad. Sticks need to be thawed. Eggs should be hard-boiled, cooled and peeled. Then you need to wash the cucumbers and preferably peel them. Lastly, the onion is finely chopped. All products are cut into small cubes and combined with corn, after mixing, everything is salted and dressed with mayonnaise.

If the well-known and probably tested more than once, crab salad is combined with Beijing cabbage, then we can say with confidence that it will turn out unforgettable tasty dish. This is an example of tenderness with ease. Therefore, you can safely enter it into the rank of a daily menu dish and cook it as often as necessary. It will need 100 grams of crab sticks and 1 medium-sized head Chinese cabbage, as well as 1 can of sweet corn, 100 grams of hard cheese and 200 grams of mayonnaise.

Advice

To give a gentle, spring flavor, fresh cucumber is added to the crab salad, if desired. It is recommended to fill it immediately before serving.

The cabbage is washed and cut. Crab sticks need to be thawed and then cut into medium cubes. Cheese is cut in the same way. Next, corn opens and combines with cabbage with cheese, where crab sticks have already been added. Mayonnaise is added to all this and mixed thoroughly. Serving such a crab salad with cabbage, it would be nice to decorate it with grated cheese or chopped figuratively crab sticks. You can add it to taste, and if desired, add black ground pepper.

You can also make a lot of interesting and rather unusual things from avocados, and not just delicious salads. Adding avocado to the recipe allows the dish to sparkle with a new taste and become especially fragrant. Such a delicacy is prepared in one fell swoop, which means that it can be prepared whenever necessary. To do this, you need 250-300 grams of crab meat, 4 boiled eggs, 1 avocado, 1 medium-sized fresh cucumber, 1 can of canned corn, green onions, lettuce, 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise.

The avocado has a neutral, but in its own way original flavor that changes the usual salad taste almost beyond recognition. But, for a salad, it is very important to choose the most ripe, soft to the touch fruit. After all, an unripe avocado will simply ruin the dish, so you need to be careful when choosing.

Conclusion:

Crab salad is a simple, well-known, but no less tasty dish. It has many variations of recipes. They are selected according to taste and in accordance with the rest of the dishes on the table. Having several recipes at your disposal, you can choose the most suitable one.