Classic crab salad - recipe

No festive table costs without crab salad. It is amazingly tasty, light, but at the same time a very nutritious salad that can be in pure form or use as a filler for vegetables. Some housewives are stuffed with this salad vegetables, Lavash, creating new dishes. If you have never prepared your own crab salad, then in our article you will learn a classic recipe for cooking.

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The history of the occurrence of crab salad

The crab salad has 2 versions of origin. Both they can be reliable:

1. Salad originated due to the efforts of the court chefs of the French king Louis XIV, who was a famous gourmet, an amateur of unusual kitchen and delicacies. That is why it was originally a crab salad was the name "Salad Louis".
2. Salad arose in a new time - in the 20s of the twentieth century in the United States in the kitchen of one of the hotels in Washington. The cook working in this hotel decided to experiment and added to the usual salad with corn crab meat.

Since the crab meat is an exotic product that is not everyone can afford to purchase, crab sticks are used instead.

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Classic Crab Salad Recipe

Ingredients that will be needed for cooking salad with crab sticks:

• 2 packs of crab sticks;
• 2 canned corn banks;
• 6 chicken eggs;
• 100 g of boiled rice;
• onions - 1 pc;
• 200 g mayonnaise;
• 2 green cucumbers;
• salt and greens to taste.

The process of cooking crab salad:

1. First you need to boil rice. So it turned out crumbly, as provided for in the recipe, it must first wash well, then toss into the boiling water and only then add a pinch of salt and citric acid, due to which the rice will look pure white. Once the rice is ready, rinse it under running water. It is important that a salad was added cooled rice, so leave it to cool.
2. After that, boil the eggs. They must be welded hard. So that they are well cleaned, you need to, remove from the stove, put under cold water.
3. When the eggs are welded, clean them and cut the cubes. Similarly, it is necessary to cut cucumbers and crab sticks (cooking them or reports to any other thermal processing is not necessary).
4. Clean the onions from the husks and cut it as thinner. He will let juice in a salad and complement his taste.
5. Open banks with corn and wait until the grains have all the juice.
6. Connect all the ingredients in one container, mix all well. Add any greens and salt to taste and put a salad in the refrigerator. Before feeding the dish of mayonnaise.

Modern housewives no longer consider crab salad something exotic and often prepare it just for lunch or dinner. After all, all the ingredients that need to be used are very affordable. It should be noted that rice is not always added and the salad is not less tasty and easier. In this case, it can be combined with any garnish. It turns out very tasty if you serve a salad with potato mashed potatoes. If you feed the salad on the table in the classic version, then the side dish does not need, because rice will do it satisfying and nutritious.