Crab step by step. How to sort crab salad and what it fits on the festive table

In the last article, we have already met with various cooking methods. 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 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 onions, 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. Drain the liquid from canned corn 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
• greenery
• cucumber
• pomegranate seeds - 1 tbsp. 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 components.

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 a green apple instead. 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. 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 use ordinary rice, then take it in a 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 into 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 there is no 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. Top up the contents with the required amount of dressing. 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 was 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 find green peas. 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 cook them often, then add 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.

Bon appetit!

Crab salad has already become a culinary classic in Russia. There are many of his recipes - with tomatoes, cucumbers, Beijing cabbage, mushrooms, pineapples, etc. It is prepared mixed or in layers, and served in a common deep salad bowl or in portions in bowls, bowls.

Classic recipe

• Time: 40 minutes.
• Servings: 5-6 persons.

The classic crab stick salad is prepared with white rice, round or long-grain - it doesn't matter. Mayonnaise can be completely or partially replaced with low-fat sour cream, and sticks with crab meat.

Ingredients:

• rice - 0.1 kg;
• egg - 8 pcs.;
• crab sticks - 0.2 kg;
• corn - 340 g;
• mayonnaise sauce - 0.25 l;
• onion (green) - 1 bunch;
• spices.

Cooking method:

1. Boil rice until cooked, rinse.
2. Boil eggs, cool, peel, cut them and crab meat sticks into small cubes. Finely chop the onion.
3. Drain the liquid from the corn, add the grains to the rest of the ingredients.
4. Salt, add mayonnaise, mix the dish until smooth.

With fresh cucumber

• Time: 35 minutes.
• Number of servings: 8 persons.
• Difficulty: accessible for beginners.

Thanks to a small amount of ingredients and the presence of cucumbers, this salad is light, fresh. If you want to make it more satisfying, like a traditional Olivier, add jacket-cooked potatoes to the food set.

Ingredients:

• crab sticks - ½ kg;
• egg - 8 pcs.;
• mayonnaise - 0.2 l;
• corn (canned) - 1 b.;
• cucumber (fresh) - 3 pcs.;
• spices.

Cooking method:

1. Hard boil eggs, cover with cold water, peel. Then cut them, cucumbers and thawed sticks into small cubes.
2. Add corn, after draining the liquid from the jar.
3. Pour spices (if necessary), season with mayonnaise, mix until smooth.

With Chinese cabbage

• Time: 30 minutes.
• Servings: 5 persons.
• Difficulty: accessible for beginners.

A classic salad with crab sticks, Beijing cabbage and other vegetables is less high-calorie, dietary and very juicy. There are no restrictions on the choice of vegetables, you can add any at your discretion.

Ingredients:

• crab meat sticks - 10 pcs.;
• corn - 1 b.;
• pepper (Bulgarian) - 1 pc.;
• cucumber (fresh) - 2 pcs.;
• cabbage (Beijing) - 0.25 kg;
• sour cream - 0.25 l;
• lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l.;
• spices.

Cooking method:

1. Peel cucumbers, pepper - from the stalk and seeds. Chop them together with crab meat into small cubes. Chop the Beijing with a sharp knife.
2. Add corn, after draining the liquid, season with lemon juice and sour cream.
3. Salt, if necessary, stir.

Layered crab salad

• Time: 30 minutes.
• Servings: 4 persons.
• Difficulty: accessible for beginners.

The classic recipe for crab salad involves mixing all the ingredients, but the dish can be cooked in layers. Piquant notes are given to it by processed cheese, which should have a delicate creamy taste, and an apple of a sour variety.

Ingredients:

• crab sticks - 0.15 kg;
• egg (boiled) - 3 pcs.;
• onion, apple, cheese (processed) - 1 pc.;
• mayonnaise.

Cooking method:

1. Separate the egg whites from the yolks. Cut the first into cubes, chop the onion and crab meat in the same way.
2. Grate the yolks, cheese and peeled and core apple.
3. Lay out the classic crab salad in layers, spreading each with mayonnaise, in the following sequence: egg whites, cheese, onion, sticks, apple. Garnish with chopped egg yolks and finely chopped herbs.

Video

Crab salad is a favorite dish of many people, which is already traditionally prepared for many holidays or just family dinners. We most often call crab salad a recipe with crab sticks, which are usually made from cod or pollock. Crab sticks were invented in general in Japan, where many years ago they first began to make minced meat from scraps of white fish, and the sticks themselves were formed from it. The classic recipe, most likely, was invented somewhere in Europe, as it includes corn.

But if instead of the usual sticks we take real crab meat, then the result will not be worse at all, although not so familiar. Real crab meat is considered a delicacy, and sometimes it is not easy to find it. It is useful due to the content of many vitamins necessary for our body, for example, B3, B5, A, B1, as well as calcium, magnesium and other trace elements. The taste of crab meat is tender and pleasant, has a sweetish-salty notes. Boiled meat is most often added to the salad, but canned meat can also be found on store shelves, which will also go well with corn, cucumber and other recipe ingredients.

Crab salads have been cooked for a long time - they have become popular since Soviet times. Then almost all dishes of such a plan were dressed with mayonnaise, and so it remained. There are dozens of options for preparing crab salad - traditional, with rice, with potato chips, etc. You can also find quite exotic options with orange jelly and mango. Let's consider the most interesting ones. Of course, it is better to start with a classic recipe.

Basic crab salad recipe

For this dish, one basic set of products is almost always used, which, from recipe to recipe, is supplemented with some interesting ingredients that reveal the taste of the salad in a new way. In principle, such food is quite light, but since we will fill with mayonnaise, for those who follow the figure, it is better to take a low-calorie one and choose the first half of the day for a meal. To prepare a classic recipe (for about 4 servings), you need to purchase this:

• 200 g crab sticks;
• A can of standard canned corn;
• 6 pre-boiled hard-boiled eggs;
• 150 g mayonnaise.

The cooking process will take no more than 10-15 minutes from the hostess (minus boiling eggs). We just open a jar of corn, drain the water, and put the corn without liquid in a salad bowl. Then cut the crab sticks into small cubes. We also cut the cooled eggs into small cubes and add to the rest of the products. Now mix everything well and season with mayonnaise. It will be better if the salad is infused for at least an hour or two in the refrigerator.

The dish can be salted or not - depending on personal tastes, but mayonnaise already gives the salad a salty taste, so it's important not to overdo it. 1-2 fresh cucumbers are often added to the classic recipe, which are cut into cubes, like other products. It gives the salad a great taste and goes well with corn, eggs and crab sticks, making the dish more juicy.

How to sort crab salad and what it fits on the festive table

You can cook crab salad for absolutely any occasion, it takes a few minutes, but it is always better to prepare it in advance so that it has time to brew for the arrival of guests. If, in addition to the basic products, a cucumber was added to the salad, then such a salad will cost a little less. In general, you can add a cucumber separately before serving directly, so that the juice does not drain from it, and it does not lose its structure itself. You can decorate such a salad traditionally with greens and in other familiar ways, as soon as your imagination tells you. It goes well with strong drinks, cognac, etc. The most successful combination is with white wine.

Surprise the taste buds and add a green apple

Green apple goes well in many salads with vegetables. This recipe is no exception and the apple perfectly balances the taste, gives more freshness and lightness. The main thing is not to overdo it with an apple and do everything according to the recipe, the variety also needs to be taken not sweet, but a little sour, optimally sweet and sour. The list of products for this recipe has been expanded not only with an apple (but on the contrary, something has been removed, for example, eggs), the full list looks like this:

• Crab sticks or meat - 400 g;
• Green apples - 2 pcs.;
• Head of Chinese cabbage;
• Half a lemon (we will squeeze juice from it);
• A small bunch of parsley;
• A bunch of green onions (to taste);
• Garlic - 2 cloves;
• Apple cider vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.;
• Olive (if not, you can vegetable) oil - 6 tbsp. l.;
• Pepper, salt - optional.

We can immediately say that the taste is significantly different from the classic recipe, since only crab sticks remained from it. But many people may like this recipe even more, especially since we will not fill everything with mayonnaise here, and therefore, regarding the benefits, such a salad is better and easier. The process of preparing the recipe takes place in the following steps:

1. We wash the apples, remove the core, seeds and peel;
2. We clean the garlic cloves and pass them through the garlic maker;
3. Grind one apple and garlic mass in a blender, adding all the oil and vinegar to it, stir until a puree-like state, you can add salt and send it to the refrigerator for min. at 15;
4. We still have 1 apple left, it needs to be cut into thin rings. In order for it not to darken, you just need to sprinkle with lemon juice (in general, all vegetables and fruits that quickly darken in the air can be saved in this way, but they still should not lie too long afterwards);
5. Finely chop greens (parsley, onion), as well as Chinese cabbage;
6. We cut crab sticks into cubes of about 2x2 cm (accordingly, if we took crab meat, we also cut it into small pieces);
7. We mix everything in a salad bowl, take out the previously prepared sauce from the refrigerator and season the salad.

Serving in an ideal form for this dish is as follows: put an even thin layer of apple rings on portioned plates, then put a small amount of salad on them, you can also cover the salad with apple rings on top and garnish with parsley. Such a salad should not be infused for too long, as it contains fresh cabbage and greens, which quickly lose vitamins, and apples can still darken, even though we sprinkled them with lemon.

Salad with crab meat and mango

Many of us have already fallen in love with mango and actively add it to salads, the product is very nutritious and healthy, it goes well and complements a variety of ingredients. This recipe is for true gourmets, which will delight them with a delicious combination of products and a perfectly matched sauce. Separately, we indicate the ingredients for the sauce and salad, so as not to get confused. For the salad, we prepare the following list:

• 200 g crab meat (sticks are not very suitable here, but you can experiment);
• 1 medium mango;
• 100 g canned corn (it is best to take a jar with small canned cobs for this recipe - this is the option used in the original of this recipe);
• 2 stalks of petiole celery.

For refueling you will need the following:

• 30 percent cream - 4 tablespoons;
• 100 ml of vegetable oil;
• Half a teaspoon of mustard;
• Half a teaspoon of Tabasco sauce;
• 1 raw egg yolk;
• 1 tablespoon of neutral ketchup, better without additional additives;
• Salt - optional.

Despite such a number of products, everything is very simple to prepare and does not take much longer than a classic recipe. Let's start with the sauce, so that it brews a little while we prepare the main course. We start with the yolk, rub it with a mustard whisk, without stopping and whisking far, gradually add the oil. At our discretion, add some salt, add Tabasco, ketchup, lightly beat the cream and send to everything else. We turn everything into a homogeneous mass and set the min. 10 in the fridge.

Now it's time for our salad. Wash the celery and cut it thinly. We clean the mango, remove the stone, sprinkle lightly with lemon juice and cut into cubes of about 1x1 cm. Cut the crab meat and add it to the salad bowl, mix everything well, pour over the sauce and decorate with celery.

Classic crab salad is one of the simplest salads that always goes well on the festive table. The set of products and the preparation itself are so simple that anyone, even those who are not experienced in cooking, can handle it. I strongly advise you to prepare one of the proposed options for

Of course, the components can be varied. For example, corn can be replaced with green peas. True, the taste of crab salad will turn out different than with corn.

And in a salad with crab sticks or with crab meat and cabbage, try adding fresh carrots, grated on a fine grater. Also very tasty. Plus, carrot vitamins are added!

The easiest crab stick salad

Ingredients:

• crab sticks or meat - 400 gr.;
• eggs - 6 pcs.;
• sweet corn - 1.5 - 2 jars;
• mayonnaise to taste.

Crab meat or sticks cut into small cubes.

Boiled and peeled eggs are also finely chopped.

Drain the juice from the corn and pour over the sticks and eggs.

We season with mayonnaise.

See the video for a more detailed description.

Classic Crab Salad with Rice and Cucumber

Ingredients:

• crab sticks or meat - 200 - 250 gr.;
• eggs - 4 pcs.;
• boiled rice - 1 cup;
• cucumbers - 2 - 3 pcs. medium;
• sweet corn - 1 can;
• green onion - half a bunch;
• parsley or dill - half a bunch;
• mayonnaise - to taste.

To salt or not to salt - decide for yourself. I advise you to solve this when you try the already prepared salad. After all, we will cook rice in salted water, and salt is present in mayonnaise.

Many advise cutting the components of crab salad coarsely or into strips. But I recommend all the same fine cutting. But anyway, it's up to you.

First, boil the rice in salted water. I take one bag of parboiled rice, put it in boiling water so that it just covers the bag, and add a little less than half a tablespoon of salt. Steamed rice does not stick together in a salad, it is easy to mix it.

Crab sticks or meat (I prefer to take it) are finely chopped and sent to a spacious bowl, so that later it would be easier to mix the crab salad.

We do the same with hard-boiled and peeled eggs.

It is better to cut the peel from the cucumber, especially if it is tough. Cucumbers are also finely chopped.

Add finely chopped greens, rice and corn to the bowl.

ATTENTION! It is better to season salads with mayonnaise immediately before serving on the festive table. Optimally, for 15 - 20 minutes, so that the snack is saturated with dressing.

AND FURTHER! Put mayonnaise in any salad in small portions. A large amount of mayonnaise will not only make your salad “wet” and unattractive, but will also clog the taste of the ingredients.

Now it remains only to try and salt as needed. Crab salad is not seasoned with pepper.

Salad of crab sticks with apple

Cucumber in crab salad can be replaced with a green apple. And mayonnaise, which we use in most holiday salads and which, perhaps, someone is fed up with or does not like at all, is perfectly replaced with sour cream-based salad dressing!

Ingredients:

• crab sticks or meat - 200 gr.;
• boiled eggs - 5 pieces;
• sweet corn - 1 can;
• boiled rice - 1 cup;
• green apple with sourness - 1 pc.

For refueling:

• sunflower oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• apple cider vinegar 6% or lemon juice - 1 tbsp. spoon;
• dry mustard - 1 teaspoon;
• sour cream of any fat content - 1 cup;
• salt - a couple of pinches.

Set the rice to boil in advance. How to do this, see the previous recipe. And if you are going to use loose grain, then take half a glass of it in dry form. Regular rice will double in size.

Steamed rice, take in dry form only a quarter of a glass. It will quadruple in size when cooked.

While the rice is cooking, you can do the dressing. Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Apple cider vinegar can be replaced with the same amount of lemon juice. The consistency of the crab salad dressing should be like mayonnaise.

Finely chop the crab meat or sticks and the egg. Peeled apple also cut into small cubes. As soon as you add the apple, add some dressing. so that it does not darken, and mix well.

Now add the corn (remember to drain the liquid from it) and chilled rice.

Dress the salad with the remaining dressing. If you got a lot of it - do not be discouraged: it can be stored in the refrigerator for about 5 days. And you can always use it to make another salad.

Mix all ingredients well. We try. We add if necessary.

Crab salad with fresh cabbage

Ingredients:

• crab meat or sticks - 200 gr.;
• boiled eggs - 4 pcs.;
• fresh cucumber - 2 pcs.;
• white cabbage or Beijing cabbage - 200 - 250 gr.;
• boiled potatoes - 2 pcs.;
• sweet corn - 1 can;
• greens - half a bunch;
• mayonnaise - to taste.

Preparing this salad is no more difficult than the previous ones. Therefore, a step-by-step description is not required. If something is not clear, ask in the comments. I will definitely answer you.

Finely chop crab sticks or crab meat, cucumbers, eggs and potatoes.

Cut the cabbage arbitrarily, but finely. It can be short straws or small cubes. Rub it a little with your hands so that it starts up the juice and is not too hard.

Add corn, after draining the juice from it.

Chop greens and add to salad.

Season with mayonnaise or salad dressing from the previous recipe. Mix and try. Salt if necessary.

Well, that’s where the classic crab salad recipes ended! In the next article, we will talk about variations on the theme “Crab Salad”. But on the eve of the New Year, you can experiment with the ingredients yourself.

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Why is this dish with crab meat or surimi sticks so attractive? As for herring under a fur coat, beets are an indispensable ingredient, and Mimosa is prepared not with capelin, but with canned salmon or pink salmon, so the classic crab salad recipe includes corn plus crab sticks. These are the main ingredients that do not need to be prepared in advance. The set of other products for this dish is easy to vary and replace, so preparing a delicious crab salad will always be easy, simple and fast! This is the secret of its popularity.

How to make simple delicious crab salad

The easiest way to prepare such an appetizer in the traditional version: mix all the ingredients, put them in a salad bowl. Variants of puff crab salad, a cold appetizer in the form of balls of salad mix, are very popular. Other options - cocktail salad in portioned bowls or in wide transparent glasses, salad on snack tartlets, salad roll in thin pita bread. Try different recipes and serving options for this popular traditional dish.

Classic recipe with crab sticks and corn

The classic crab salad recipe is incredibly simple. The only product that requires preliminary preparation is chicken eggs. In some recipes, it is recommended to add a fresh apple to them, decorate with orange slices, prunes. If desired, add green, onion or leek, and replace some of the mayonnaise with sour cream or unsweetened yogurt. It is advisable to marinate onions in advance to remove bitterness.

Ingredients:

• pickled sweet corn - 1 can;
• crab sticks - 200 g;
• ham (preferably low-fat) - 200 g;
• chicken eggs - 6 pieces;
• mayonnaise, salt - at your discretion.

Cooking:

1. We cut crab sticks, ham into small sticks.
2. Finely chop the eggs.
3. Drain the marinade from the corn.
4. We combine eggs, sticks, corn, season with mayonnaise, salt, mix.

With avocado and rice

Sea salad with crabs and rice is a common dish popular on our tables. If you add avocado to it, you will get an unusual taste of salad with the presence of crab sticks in the composition. The same effect will give the replacement of rice with instant vermicelli, small pasta. They will make the consistency of the snack airy. Try using a ready-made Hawaiian mix that includes rice, corn, and peas.

Ingredients:

• avocado - 2 pcs.;
• crab meat - 300 g;
• rice (dry) - 200 g;
• pineapple - 3 rings;
• sweet onion - half an onion;
• low-calorie mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l.;
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.;
• blue cheese - 50 g;
• spices to taste.

Cooking:

1. We wash the rice, fill it with cold water, wait until it boils, rinse. Boil until cooked, rinse again, cool. If we use noodles, then we put dry crumbs from mashed noodles.
2. Cut pineapple into small pieces. We take out the pulp from the avocado, cut it into cubes.
3. Crab meat cut into medium slices.
4. We prepare the dressing: we make cheese chips from cheese, knead it with sour cream and mayonnaise. We add spices.
5. Finely chop the peeled onion, put in the sauce.
6. We mix all the ingredients. It remains to fill it with spicy sauce, transfer to a salad bowl.

With Chinese cabbage

Crab salad with cabbage is known in several versions. Its ingredients are all types of cabbage: white, broccoli, red, cauliflower, kohlrabi, Beijing. Try to cook a salad of crab and Chinese cabbage "Hunter". For those who are on a diet, instead of Chinese cabbage, it is better to use green salad leaves, diet mayonnaise or natural yogurt, which will reduce the calorie content of the dish. Try both options!

Ingredients:

• crab sticks - 250 g;
• fresh cucumber - 1 pc.;
• eggs - 4 pcs.;
• Chinese cabbage - 200 g;
• canned corn - 200 g;
• mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. l.

Cooking

1. First you need to boil hard-boiled eggs, cool them.
2. Then we clean the eggs, grind them with a grater.
3. Cut thawed crab sticks into small pieces.
4. We chop the washed fresh cucumber into thin strips.
5. Wash a head of Beijing cabbage, dry it with a paper towel, finely chop.
6. Place the corn in a salad bowl.
7. We also add chopped eggs, chopped crab sticks, chopped cucumber and cabbage there.
8. Mix, season it with salt, mayonnaise, decorate with herbs, serve.

With tomatoes

An unusual combination of sweet and sour fresh tomato with bell pepper, chicken meat with crab meat and garlic, garlic with corn give the salad an unusually rich fresh taste. Therefore, he deservedly received the name "Royal". Some cooks put sliced ​​omelette pancakes plus pickled mushrooms (mushroom mushrooms, champignons, mushrooms) instead of eggs.

Ingredients:

• 2 packs of crab sticks;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 1 pod of sweet bell pepper;
• 1 medium onion;
• 1 can of pickled corn;
• 3 fresh tomatoes or 8 cherry tomatoes
• half a fried chicken breast;
• 2 garlic cloves;
• greens, salt, mayonnaise at your discretion.

Cooking:

1. Boil hard-boiled eggs, cool, peel.
2. Drain the canned corn in a colander.
3. We clean the onion, cut it into quarters of rings.
4. My tomatoes, cut into small pieces.
5. Bulgarian pepper, peeled from seeds, chopped into strips.
6. Finely chop eggs, chicken breast.
7. We put all the prepared products in a salad bowl, add the garlic cloves passed through the press, put the greens, mayonnaise, salt. We mix everything.

With cheese

In salad recipes with crabs and cheese, hard varieties, sausage or processed cheese, feta cheese and even salty Adyghe suluguni cheese are used. Try the recipe with crab sticks and hard cheese. Replace hard cheese with processed or soft smoked cheese, grind all the ingredients on a grater, roll balls from the lettuce mass. Make stuffed tartlets with arugula leaves out of them or roll them in dill greens, put them in a pile on a dish. You will get a beautiful and unusual snack!

Ingredients:

• crab sticks - 1 pack (about 250 g);
• canned corn - 1 can (about 350 g);
• chicken eggs - 5 pcs.;
• hard cheese - 200 g;
• fresh garlic - 2 cloves;
• lean mayonnaise, salt to taste.

Cooking:

1. Hard-boiled eggs, cool, coarsely chop.
2. Cut the thawed sticks into large cubes.
3. Cut cheese into large cubes.
4. Drain the marinade from the can of corn.
5. For the sauce, rub mayonnaise with mashed garlic in a press, add salt if necessary.
6. We mix all the prepared ingredients, season the mixture with sauce.

with cucumber

One of the unusual cucumber recipes is the Vkusnyashka salad. In addition to the traditional version, there is a second “Vkusnyashki” recipe, in which all the ingredients are diced and mixed. The combination of seafood with cucumbers is traditional. Try and evaluate the standard combination or experiment by replacing the cucumber with daikon radish, radish, capers or stalk celery, add green peas.

Ingredients:

• crab sticks - 300 g;
• fresh cucumber - 1 pc.;
• chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
• pickled corn - 1 can;
• mustard - 2 tbsp. l.;
• green onion - 1 bunch;
• mayonnaise - 150 g;
• kiwi - 3 pcs.

Cooking:

1. Defrost crab sticks, disks.
2. Finely chop boiled eggs and onions.
3. Peeled kiwi fruit cut into small pieces.
4. We make dressing from mustard and mayonnaise.
5. Cucumber cut into thin circles.
6. We lay the products in layers, smearing them with dressing: crab sticks, sweet corn, green onions, kiwi, eggs.
7. Decorate the top layer with cucumber circles.

New Crab Salad Recipes

Modern realities give birth to new recipes. So pineapple and banana got into the traditional chicken salad, Italian mozzarella replaced cream cheese and homemade cottage cheese, instead of olivier with potatoes and sausage, a salad of squid and crab sticks appeared on our tables. Found application in recipes crackers and chips. We offer you some "crazy" versions of the famous salad.

with chips

Crab chips are best for Surprise salad. But it is permissible to put potato chips in it. In this case, you should buy shrimp-flavored chips. Another option for "Surprise" is the addition of crackers instead of chips. Try to put kirieshki crackers with the taste of crabs, fish (tuna, salmon, trout, salmon, cod liver) or caviar.

Ingredients:

• 30 g (1 bag) chips;
• 1 pack crab meat
• 300 g squid;
• 1 can of sweet canned corn;
• 6 pieces of hard-boiled eggs;
• 1 head of onion;
• mayonnaise, seasonings to taste.

Cooking

1. Cut crab meat into small cubes.
2. Peeled squid should be cut into strips, fried in vegetable oil.
3. Finely chop the eggs.
4. We recline the corn in a colander so that excess liquid is drained from it.
5. Cut the peeled onion head into thin half rings.
6. Pour the chips from the bag into a bowl, add prepared foods to them, season with mayonnaise, salt.
7. Mix, serve.

Salad with crab meat and beans

This version of the salad is prepared with canned crab meat. The main advantage of this recipe is that no ingredients require preliminary preparation, and the output is an inexpensive dish and a hearty side dish for hot appetizers. Serve the salad prepared according to this recipe after it has been infused in the refrigerator for at least half an hour.

Ingredients:

• canned crabs or mussels - 1 can;
• canned red beans - 1 can;
• sweet bell pepper (red or yellow) - 1 pod;
• fresh cucumber - 1 piece;
• parsley - 1 bunch
• mayonnaise - 1-2 tbsp. l.
• refined vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.;
• ground black pepper, salt - at your discretion.

Cooking

1. We wash vegetables and herbs, clean the pepper from seeds.
2. Chop the onion, pepper and cucumber into thin strips.
3. Drain the beans in a colander to drain excess liquid.
4. We prepare the sauce, for which we mix the oil with mayonnaise and season to taste with salt and pepper.
5. We take out the crab meat from the jar, put it in a salad bowl. Add beans and chopped vegetables.
6. Season with sauce, mix.

Puff with pineapple

The combination of salty cheese and sweet pineapples gives the salad an unusual taste. The layered “assembly” also makes it original. Use the special form and prepare this royal salad in the form of a festive snack cake. If you lay these layers on pita bread and roll up into a roll, you get a delicious and satisfying puff snack.

Ingredients:

• 250 g crab sticks;
• 250 g of any hard cheese;
• 250 g canned pineapples;
• 6 hard-boiled quail eggs;
• 200 g mayonnaise.

Cooking

1. Eggs with a large grater.
2. Grind crab sticks and hard cheese on a grater.
3. All grated products (each separately) are mixed with mayonnaise.
4. Lay the crab sticks in an even layer on the bottom of the salad bowl.
5. Place a layer of grated cheese on top.
6. The last layer is from eggs mixed with mayonnaise.
7. We remove the salad in the refrigerator and leave to infuse for about an hour.
8. Before serving, lay out a light layer of finely chopped canned pineapple.

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