Crab meat - a delicacy with excellent special delicate flavor and are rich in vitamin composition. But this ingredient is not always available, so salads are often used simulation of this type of meat - crab sticks. They are based on fish protein and are perfectly combined with many products.
Classic crab salad
This recipe is preparing for a few minutes, and the only thing that you need to prepare in advance - it's hard-boiled eggs.
Required ingredients:
- Canned corn - 200 g
- Boiled eggs - 5-6 pieces.
- Crab sticks - 240 g
- Ham or cooked sausage - 200 g
- Mayonnaise - 180 g
- Salt - to your taste.
Additionally, you can add prunes, pickled onions or apple. But this is only optional.
Preparation steps:
- Crab meat, eggs and ham cut into small cubes.
- A jar of corn, open and drain the fill.
- Combine all ingredients, add mayonnaise, salt and mix.
- Put lettuce in a salad bowl and garnish with orange slices.
Layered crab salad "Pineapple"
In the conventional embodiment, all components are mixed lettuce, are filled and are laid out in a salad bowl. But it is possible to diversify their menus and make an unusual layered salad.
List of products:
- Crab sticks - 175 g
- Boiled Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Pineapple chunks (canned) - 150 g
- Hard cheese (moderately salty) - 125 g
- Garlic - 2 cloves.
- Mayonnaise - 150 g
Cooking process:
- First, prepare the filling: to the mayonnaise to mix passed through a garlic press, add a little ground black pepper and salt.
- Then, in the preparation of sauces, add the grated cheese and eggs.
- 1/3 sauce lay on the bottom of dishes previously lined with cling film.
- Top with ½ chopped crab sticks.
- Open pineapple, drain the juice from them, and half of the fruit, send the crab sticks.
- Now lay another third of the sauce.
- Then, lay out all other ingredients in the same sequence.
- Cool the salad in the refrigerator at least 1 hour, then turn the bowl with a salad on the serving dish, remove the food film from it and decorate the grain and grated yolk.
Crab sticks in a salad can always be replaced with boiled crab meat, if you have such a product.
Salad cocktail "crab"
If you should take place a big celebration, you can go beyond the framework of ordinary salads and make anything more original, for example, salad cocktail.
What is needed for salad:
- Crab sticks - 400 g.
- Marinated champignons - 60 g.
- Solid cheese - 60 g.
- Apples - 60 g.
- Bulgarian pepper - 100 g.
- Yogurt - 200 g
- Orange and Mandarin - 80 g each.
- Honey - 20 g.
- Greens and curry - at will.
- Citrus juice and mustard - taste.
How to cook:
- Cheese, crab meat and apples. Cut in the form of small cubes.
- Champignons cut out slices, and peppers - stripes.
- Oranges and tangerines Clean and divide on the slices, then each of the poles cut into 2-3 parts.
- Make refueling: Mix yogurt with mustard, then add lemon juice to taste to taste. At the end, you can add a bit of the orange and curry zest.
- Now, mix all products, make them sauce and decompose on portion salad bowls.
- Decorate the dish of lemon sliced \u200b\u200band chopped greens.
Any crab wand salad is not easy to serve in salad bowls, and re-start tartlets or make a roll of footwash. In addition, you can safely retreat from the formulation and add new ingredients. From this, your salad will become even more delicious and exclusive.