Crab Salad Classic Recipe With Rice

In the cold season, the hostess no longer prepare salads from fresh vegetables. On the table for the most part, you can see the conservation, which was completed in the summer, and more complex salads, refilled by mayonnaise, such as "fur coats", "Olivier", etc. Very popular at this time is the crab salad. In the article we will share the classic recipe for its preparation.

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Crab Salad with Rice - Classic Recipe

The crab salad has several advantages: first, it is not too expensive, and secondly, it is very light, tasty and, at the same time, nutritious. Moreover, such a salad is suitable for everyday meal, and for the festive table, because it looks very bright, thanks to its constituent. And if it is also spectacularly present, beautifully decorate, then this dish is simply nothing.

To prepare this incredibly delicious salad, we will need such components:

crab sticks - 1 Packaging (240 g)
eggs - 6-8 pcs.
rice - 1 Stack
canned corn - 1 bank
green Bow - 1 Bunch
salt to taste
mayonnaise - 2-3 tbsp.

Now we will deal with the preparation of salad:

Crab sticks are usually always in a frozen form, so get them so that they defrost
In the meantime, I wash the eggs well, pour with water and put the marina for 10 minutes. They will be screwed. When the eggs are welded, fill them with cold water, so that they are cooled, and so it will be easier to clean the shell.
While the eggs are cooking and crab sticks are deficsed, prepare for a salad rice. Pour in a liter feather and a half water. Put it on fire so that water boils and salt to taste. Rinse the rice under running water, pour it into boiling water. Boil it in this way, constantly stirring, 15-20 minutes. The main thing is not to digest it, rice should crumble, and not stick together like porridge.
After the rice was welded, pour it into a colander and rinse with a warm water. It is desirable that it is boiled. And we cool up so that you can use the salad.
We open the packaging already frosthed crab sticks. Remove individual cellophane packaging from each stick and cut. Pour the container in which we will do the salad itself.
Eggs clean from the shell, my good to remove the smallest crumbs of the shell, which often can spoil the entire salad. Now we cut their cubes and pour out to the crab sticks.
Open corn bank, drain the whole liquid from it and pour the contents into the salad container.
We take green onions, my good and finely cut. Pour to the rest of the ingredients.
Now we add to the container already cooled rice, mix everything and refuel the mayonnaise salad. By the way, mayonnaise can be placed and more of the specified norm, so the salad will be greater.
Cooked salad immediately serve to the table, beautifully decaling.

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Tips and recommendations for the preparation of salad crab sticks

We will give you some recommendations that you can use in the process of making crab salad:

First of all, I would like to note that the crab wands are better cutting larger than the remaining components. First, you thus focus on the main ingredient, in which, actually, the salad is based and, thanks to which he received such a name. And secondly, than they cut the larger, the more their structure is felt in taste.
As for rice, it is preferable to use long-grained in the salad. It turns out the crumbly and does not stick into the lumps. For salad is the most winning option.
Another small secret about rice. When you boil the rice for salad, at the end of the cooking you can add 1 tbsp. Fresh lemon juice. Thanks to this procedure, the rice will become unusually snow-white.
In the crab salad you can still add a fresh cucumber. It will give freshness and lightness to Salat. And the taste will become even more gentle.
Another preparation option is to add an apple peeled from the peel and cut into cubes. Just before adding a chopped apple into a salad, sprinkle it slightly lemon juice so that it does not darke it. This option, of course, for gourmets, because the salad acquires a very interesting and unusual taste. By the way, in this case, rice can even be excluded from the recipe.
Alternatively, the salad before serving can be sprinkled with ground pepper, it will add him spicy notes.
If your family does not like rice in your family, then it can be replaced by boiled potatoes in the uniform, which is cleaned and cut into cubes. Or you can then exclude rice then at all.
A very peculiar taste acquires a salad if in it before serving finely cut a bunch of fresh dill.

As you can see, in addition to the classic recipe for the preparation of crab salad, there are many other variations. You for yourself choose the option that is more suitable for your family tastes. Do not be afraid to try and experiment, because it is the method of trial and error we always find both in life, and in culinary art, most preferred option.