Standard crab salad. red caviar salad recipe

To cook right crab salad of corn and sticks, enough to stick simple steps cooking. Beforehand, we advise you to read the recommendations on how to choose the right products for the salad. If you already have the products, then you have only 7 steps:

Hard boil the eggs and set aside. Pour a little salted water into a small deep ladle. Immerse eggs in it and put on the stove at maximum temperature. We are waiting for 10 minutes from the moment of boiling, that is how long it takes for the protein and, most importantly, the yolk, to cook to a state where it is convenient to cut them. After pour boiled eggs maximum cold water.
Boil rice and let cool. Before you start cooking rice, it must be washed well in water. To do this, pour rice into the ladle and pour water in a volume no less than rice. We intensively sort the rice in water until the water turns white and becomes opaque. Carefully drain the water, holding the rice with your palm, pour in new clean water and repeat the entire rinsing process again. And so several times until all the rice dust is washed away. It is necessary to do this procedure so that the rice after cooking is crumbly and does not stick together. In a bowl with washed rice, pour salted water in a volume twice as large as the volume of rice, put on slow fire and cover with a lid, but not completely. Cook for 15-20 minutes until the water boils completely. When the rice is fully cooked, it needs to cool to room temperature, so it is better to transfer it to another bowl and add 1/2 tablespoon of butter.
Cut crab sticks, cucumbers and onions. Pre-defrosted at room temperature, crab sticks or crab meat cut into small pieces. We cut fresh cucumbers and onions in proportion to them.
Peel and cut eggs. After 8-10 minutes in cold water eggs are easy to peel, as they shrink slightly in volume from a sharp cooling. We cut the eggs into small pieces and transfer them to a salad bowl with crab sticks, cucumbers and onions.
Cut greens and add them to mayonnaise. Greens, regardless of the state, dry or fresh, cut, mix with mayonnaise and let stand for 3-5 minutes.
Add rice and corn. In a salad bowl, add cooled rice and sweet canned corn without brine. Mix all ingredients well.
Fill with mayonnaise. Dress the salad with mayonnaise and herbs and serve.

salad ingredients

crab sticks - 1 pack (200 grams);
canned corn - 1 can (170 grams);
chicken eggs - 2 pieces;
boiled rice - 2 tablespoons;
fresh cucumber - 1 piece;
onion - 1/2 head;
greens - to taste;
mayonnaise - 100 grams;
butter - 1/2 tablespoon.

Classic Crab Salad is ready. If you want to diversify it, then you can add grated cheese, boiled potatoes, garlic, Bell pepper, croutons or Chinese cabbage. Any option will be a table decoration and your guests will like it. Enjoy your meal!

How to choose salad ingredients

You need to choose products based on several rules. To begin with, all ingredients must be fresh, which means that you should carefully study the expiration date. This is especially important for chilled crab sticks. Determining their quality by appearance is not easy, unlike onions or cucumbers, the depravity of which can be determined by color and by touch when buying.

Despite the fact that the sticks are often sold in vacuum packaging, their shelf life and conditions are very limited. Violation temperature regime during transportation or storage in a warehouse, it is difficult to determine, and if unscrupulous sellers also replace the expiration dates on packages with new ones, then the risk of buying products hazardous to health increases many times over.

This means that when buying crab sticks for salad, you should look not only at the expiration date itself, but also at how it is printed on the packaging. It is better if it is embossing or heat-resistant printing. If the term is applied crookedly and is easily washed off, then it would be more logical to refrain from such a purchase.

It is important to remember that crab sticks should not be re-frozen after defrosting. If you purchased chilled (they are also thawed), then you need to use them within the period indicated on the package and store them in the refrigerator, not in the freezer.

Which is tastier: crab sticks or crab meat

When choosing the main ingredient, we first find out which products contain crab, and which have only a name in common with it. It's no secret that there is no crab in the sticks, and sometimes fish too, and in general, products of animal or fish origin.

Usually the composition of the sticks includes: minced fish surimi, water, modified starch, vegetable oil, dry egg white, salt, sugar and nutritional supplements, where without them! It is thanks to thickeners, flavors, dyes, flavor enhancers that this mass can be eaten.

Minced fish, called surimi, contrary to popular belief, is not made from fish waste: scales, bones, fins and fish heads, but from fish fillets. Of course, from the cheapest fish species or specimens unsuitable for sale. Hake, pollock, cod and other inexpensive commercial fish become the basis for sticks.

The aroma vaguely reminiscent of the smell of canned crab meat is achieved by flavorings, and the bright red color is achieved by dyes. Most crab sticks from production are sent to supermarket shelves frozen. And then the most resourceful sellers defrost them and call them chilled.

By positioning crab sticks as chilled, stores can make a very significant markup on them, although in fact they are no different from ordinary frozen foods, and sometimes they can be much more dangerous. The fact is that some time after defrosting, pathogenic microflora begins to develop in the products, therefore a limited shelf life is set on them.

So when choosing a “cooled food”, carefully inspect the packaging, check the expiration date and appearance the sticks themselves. They should not be yellow, gray and have characteristic traces of delamination. And be sure to pay attention to the integrity of the package, if air gets into it, then buying such crab sticks is unsafe for health.

All of the above about sticks also applies to a product called " crab meat". If you don’t have a sterile packed, glass or tin can in front of you, then with a probability of 99.9% you are holding anything in your hands, but not crab meat.

Plastic packaging with small, rectangular or square white-red pieces is the same crab sticks produced in the same factory, from the same components, on the same machines, only packaged differently. So everything that concerns freshness and quality is also true for the so-called "crab meat".

Real crabs are now packaged in transparent glass containers so that you can see and admire them before buying. Like any canned food, crab meat has its own expiration date, which without fail must be indicated on the packaging.

The freshness of canned food is easiest to check by the condition of the lid - if it is swollen, it means that “life arose” there and it is better not to eat it. If the lid is not swollen, but is easily squeezed through, this means that the tightness of the container is broken and it is likely that harmful bacteria are also actively multiplying inside.

deal with canned fish as with baked canned mushrooms- "digest" or boil it again - it's not worth it. The taste will no longer be the same and the risk of getting poisoned still remains high.

Canned corn

Canned corn has long replaced bourgeois pineapples. Now imagine it popular dish without sweet corn impossible. It is well known that in corn in in large numbers contains provitamin A (carotene), and the brighter the color of the grains, the higher its content. However, ripe rich yellow corn is much tougher than small white corn, which is sometimes called "milk".

About other interesting fact Few people know about corn. It turns out that it has properties that allow our body to absorb fatty foods faster and better, and also easier to tolerate. alcohol intoxication, which makes it very useful on the New Year's table.

A can of canned corn should be inspected for dents, swelling, or leaks before purchase. The high quality of the product is indicated not only by the correct packaging, but also by the brine. It should be opaque, white and in relatively small amounts.

Rice and eggs

Rice is better to choose long-grain. Steamed packaged rice is ideal, after cooking it becomes white and crumbly. Instead of steamed, you can use the usual one, but it requires a more careful approach to the cooking process.

AT last years there are many supporters healthy eating who claim that white polished rice is harmful to the figure, so it should be replaced with brown. However, it is definitely not suitable for crab salad.

Firstly, the color - dark, almost black grains will contrast strongly with crab sticks, eggs and mayonnaise. Second, the rigidity brown rice even after long cooking remains quite hard.

In this recipe, which even before the revolution came with the French, they used only quail eggs. The meat of a real sea crab goes well with them. A worthy substitute for quail eggs will be chicken eggs, only necessarily fresh ones.

The freshness of eggs can always be checked by first dipping them in water. Those of them that pop up, most likely, have been lying for a long time and their expiration date is running out. This is due to the fact that as the egg ages, the protein and yolk dries out, and the free space is occupied by air.

The longer this process continues, the more pathogenic bacteria develop under the shell. And when the product has completely deteriorated, it begins to spread an unpleasant characteristic odor.

Cucumber, onion and herbs

The New Year's recipe for crab salad in the era of the USSR did not provide for cucumbers and greens, due to their absence in stores in winter. Now you can not only buy a couple of cucumbers in severe frosts, but also choose among different varieties.

The most delicious and healthy cucumbers domestic from the garden, with pimples and grown on the ground under the sun. But until the winter holidays, alas, they are stored with great difficulty. Therefore, on the shelves you can find imported options.

Everyone has known for a long time that the Dutch varieties, long and smooth, are completely tasteless and look like rubber. Pro tip - don't use them in your meals. In a salad, it is preferable to cut short, rough cucumbers from Argentina, Peru, Chile, Israel, etc.

Onions are suitable for both white and red onions. But in terms of usefulness, the best choice will be red sweet. It has significantly more substances that help our immunity, and it is much sweeter. If children are not told that this is an onion, then they eat such a salad perfectly.

Greens for crab salad should not have a pronounced aroma and taste. No basil, oregano, rosemary. Better take advantage a small amount the usual dill and parsley. Store in a glass of water in the refrigerator or in an airtight container, sprinkled lightly with water. Dry seasonings will work better if mixed with mayonnaise in advance, especially if it is made according to a home-made recipe.

Legends of Crab Salad

According to the most common legend, Crab salad is a product of the creativity of Soviet housewives from the times of food shortages. Ardent fans of the Soviet past claim that in “those bright times” real meat of the Far Eastern delicacy was added to homemade crab salad, and not bars made from starch, soy flour, sugar and flavorings.

In the history of world culinary there is a mention of Louis Crab Salad, which got its name either from french king Louis XIV, who loved to taste delicacies from around the world, or from Louis Davenport, an American entrepreneur who owned hotels and restaurants in Washington state in the 20s of the 19th century, which served seafood snacks.

The dish came to Russia in the 19th century along with French chefs. Wealthy residents of both Russian capitals enjoyed trying the new cooking masterpiece. Naturally, the composition of “that” dish was very different from what we are used to.

The main difference was the crab meat. It was the basis of the entire recipe. The composition also included quail eggs, shrimps, pineapples, rice, onions, fresh cucumbers and herbs.

With the advent of Soviet power, ideologically alien bourgeois recipes were forgotten and for a long time salad was an exclusively Far Eastern dish. The nomenclature officials of Primorye were the first to remember the recipes for dishes with seafood, which were supplied to the capitalist countries for a lot of money. A new, well-forgotten dish has appeared in canteens and restaurants for high-ranking party leaders - Crab Salad with real, fresh crab meat.

Canned crab has been produced in Russia since 1928, but almost never entered the domestic market. The entire catch was processed at canneries, packed in cans, having foreign markings and, of course, immediately went for export.

With the advent of the Khrushchev thaw, canned seafood, including crab meat, hit the shelves of Soviet stores. And not just hit, but also began to stale. Unfortunately, most buyers did not have enough money for this delicacy, and recipes in Soviet cookbooks did not include crab meat.

Long-term chaotic and uncontrolled fishing of seafood has led to a sharp reduction in their population in the Far East. As a result, from a completely unfriendly Japan, the technology for the production of crab sticks came to the USSR. It was they who formed the basis of good forgotten recipe, which began to be printed in every magazine and even in newspapers.

Bluelo has caught up with Olivier and Mimosa in popularity. In the list of mandatory salads for the New Year, he began to take far from the last place. Recipes have multiplied and improved. Products that were difficult to find were replaced by more common and affordable ones. So Crab Salad became a truly homemade table dish and a symbol of the wealth of the middle class in the Soviet Union.

Do you also have a couple of packages with the famous raw materials for salads? And rightly so. With corn and cucumber, you can cook such a yummy that is good on holidays, and for every day. And the taste will not let you down and will delight guests. And if you change the recipe, add new products ... Here is a new dish on the table.

Does anyone know who is the author of all? No one will say this anywhere. But the period of the USSR is considered his birthday. Since then, interest in the main character of many dishes has only increased. After all, the number of recipes is only increasing. And every woman can boast of her own. Suffice it to say about its classic version - with corn and cucumber.

You should know it:

Do you know that it is categorized healthy meals? How is it, you will be indignant, they say, what is useful in a synthetic product. But! There is no particular reason to panic. We are dealing with concentrated fish protein. main ingredient our hero is surimi. And they make it from famous fillet marine fish. These are hake, pollock, sardine, horse mackerel, and also squid.
The finished product has everything that is available in the representative of the sea and vitamins and microelements. Therefore, by preparing such a dish, you guarantee yourself a well-balanced meal. Experts recommend that we include crab salad in our diet. But not every day. After all, the composition of crab sticks still sins with dyes, preservatives, stabilizers, food additives. And certainly refrain from treating children with such a salad in large quantities.
When choosing crab sticks, be extremely careful and try to purchase only a quality product. Refrain from buying if there is ice inside the package, and the sticks themselves have yellow or gray spots. Don't forget to pay attention to the expiration date.

So let's get ready classic version crab salad with corn and cucumbers.

Ingredients

2 eggs
100 g crab sticks
Fresh cucumber
Half a can of canned corn
50 g onion
Greens to taste (optional)
mayonnaise to taste
Salt (optional, to taste)

Cooking crab salad with corn and cucumbers - a classic recipe

Of course, first we will send eggs to boil (if you do not have ready-made ones in stock).

ADVICE: Better eggs put in cold water. Otherwise, the shell of an egg taken out of the refrigerator will crack, and the contents will not cook the way we need.

When the eggs are ready, drain the water and pour cold water into a saucepan. Ideally, put them in the refrigerator for a while, after wiping them from moisture. Actually, every woman has her secrets. I talked about mine. So, we will clean the hard-cooled eggs from the shell, and then grate them. But you can cut with a knife.

Step 1. Grate peeled eggs

With corn, you also have to tinker a little. After all, you need to remove the grains from the jar and let the liquid drain from them. If this is not done, we will not get a salad, but some kind of stew of unknown origin. In other words, let's do these things.

Step 2. Corn is cooked

We got to the crab sticks. I had the freshest. It was visible in appearance and heard in a pleasant aroma. So, they must be cleaned from the packaging and also grated or finely chopped. If you want them to be more visible, cut into thin slices, as I did.

Step 3. Grind crab sticks

The next character is a fresh cucumber. I wish it was actually fresh. And not lying! I try not to peel these cucumbers. Firstly, it is fiber, which we lack. Secondly, a bright green color will decorate the salad. Well, the shape of the pieces will hold. Without the skin, they will quickly wilt and get lost in the salad.

Step 4. Cut the cucumber into thin strips

If you have green onions, great. Chop it up a little. I didn’t have it, but I wanted a green one and this ingredient is supposed to be in the recipe, so I chopped up the usual one. It is advisable to chop smaller and thinner. And if it is cool, pour boiling water over it.

Step 5. Cut the onion thinly

I found both dill and parsley. I decided to cut a little bit of everything. Preferably as small as possible - for the benefit. After all, the main characters must be visible!

Step 6. Chop the greens very finely

And just now we put all the products (except greens) in a bowl without stirring. After all, if we had mixed it earlier, it would also have turned out to be gruel.

Step 7. All products in a bowl

Have you made mayonnaise? Or do you have sour cream? And that option is good, and the other. The second, of course, is preferable in terms of benefits, and the second in terms of taste. I had fresh mayonnaise.

Do you like your salad to be spicy? Salt lightly if needed. But I didn't. After all, mayonnaise itself is spicy. And then mix very gently all the ingredients with mayonnaise. And put in this pleasant mass of greens.

Step 9. Mix Everything and Add Greens

Then mix the ingredients even more carefully. Arrange beautifully on plates. And we serve!

Step 10. We decorate the dish and serve it on the table

Choosing the right crab sticks for salad

What are the best sticks to choose for salad:

First, juicy.
Secondly, tight.
Thirdly, which are painted on the outside.
Fourth, chilled (but not frozen).

BTW: Crab sticks are a product that does not require processing. Because we buy them ready to eat!

But before considering these factors, read the list of ingredients. Minced fish comes first, surimi? Flavor enhancers and starch listed last? Does the packaging look good? Then look at the expiration date. In general, it is better to purchase sticks only from trusted and well-known manufacturers.

It is best to buy chilled crab sticks, the frozen product does not have such good taste.

Remember what if you purchased good quality sticks, they do not stick to the wrapper, but unfold beautifully and without difficulty.

The salad looks beautiful if served in a common salad bowl. It looks no less beautiful separately on a plate or in a bowl. If there are lettuce leaves, it will be even more beautiful and appetizing. Lay dill, lemon slices, tomato rosettes, etc. nearby.

No crab sticks? Take fish (boiled or fried), shrimp, squid, etc. Ideally, of course, natural crab meat.

Crab meat - to buy or not? You can meet him in the store. But do not get caught by this clever move of marketers! Its composition is the same as that of crab sticks. Unless its packaging distinguishes it - you do not have to pick out the meat from the wrappers, as happens with crab sticks. You just remove one package and you're done. The only thing left to do is cutting.

ATTENTION: If you have a frozen product, it is better not to use it for making a salad. Frozen crab sticks have already said goodbye to a lot of moisture during the freezing process, and therefore they are dry and fibrous. And sellers, freezing them, can hide expired goods in this way. In a word, it is both tasteless and not very useful.

Salad options with crab sticks

Initially, the set of products for crab salad remained standard for a long time. Well, and then, when they saw through it and, for lack of some of the ingredients, they put what they had, and these variations appeared. There are enough of them. Let's name the most popular.

So, in crab salad get:

fresh cabbage
A pineapple
lettuce leaf
Tomato
Mushrooms
Beans
Apples
Potato
Bell pepper
boiled meat
Apples
Spices etc.

Here are some popular salad recipes.

With squid and shrimp

For ten minutes, the peeled squid carcass is boiled. Then we clean it from the film and cut into rings. Squeeze the juice of a lemon cut in half on them. 10-15 shrimp are boiled for 2-3 minutes. Let's send them to a bowl with squid. Then finely chop 100 g of crab sticks, a little pickled cucumber and onion. Let's mix everything. Add corn and mayonnaise to taste.

Seafood is a necessary part of the diet of any person, everyone knows about their benefits. Unfortunately, the gifts of the oceans are not cheap, so many housewives actively use their substitutes. For example, instead of crab meat, crab sticks can be added to salads.

This original product is made from ground white fish meat. The sticks are a ready-made product that does not require heat treatment; many salads can be prepared on their basis today. Below are the most popular and affordable dishes.

Classic salad recipe with crab sticks and rice

Since sticks came to Russia from the East (Japan and China), the best "companion" for them is rice. This cereal is adored by the Japanese, it is considered very useful. That is why it (together with crab sticks) forms the basis classic salad below is his recipe.

Ingredients:

Crab sticks (or the so-called crab meat) - 250 gr.
Sea salt.
Canned corn - 1 can.
Onion– 1-2 pieces, depending on the size.
Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
Rice - 100 gr.
Mayonnaise - to the taste of the hostess.

Cooking algorithm:

The first step is to boil the chicken eggs and rice. Rinse the grits, bring water (1 liter) to a boil, put the washed rice, salt, stir, cook until tender. Secret: if at the end of cooking cereals add a little lemon juice, then it will acquire a beautiful snow-white color and slight sourness.
Cooking process - 20 minutes (with constant stirring). Drain in a colander with small holes, rinse, cool to room temperature.
Boil the eggs in water (salted) until hard boiled (10 minutes). Transfer the eggs to cold water to cool, peel.
Clean the crab meat from the film. Clean the turnip, wash.
You can actually start making the salad. To do this, cut crab sticks, onions and boiled eggs (you can small cubes).
Open the canned corn, drain the water.
Put the ingredients in a large enough container. Before serving, the salad must be salted, then seasoned with mayonnaise or mayonnaise sauce.
Serve chilled. Such a salad can act as a side dish for meat, fish or be an independent dish.

Crab salad recipe with fresh cucumbers - photo recipe

The familiar and boring crab salad is easy to update by adding to the ingredients fresh vegetables. Fits great here fresh pepper, onion or cucumber.

It is with the latter that it is worth preparing crab salad in the first place. It turns out it is especially fragrant and juicy. It's also nice that the cucumber cubes crunch. This will surely appeal to children and other vegetable lovers.

Time for preparing: 20 minutes

Quantity: 4 servings

Ingredients

Crab sticks: 300 g
Fresh cucumbers: 200 g
Eggs: 4 pcs.
Corn: 1 b.
Mayonnaise: to taste

Cooking instructions

How to cook crab salad with corn

Canned corn is second only to rice in terms of compatibility with crab sticks. She sets off fishy aroma sticks, gives the salad a pleasant sweetness and juiciness. Here is one of the easiest salads to prepare, popular with Russian housewives.

Ingredients:

Crab sticks - 400 gr.
Canned corn - 350 gr.
Mayonnaise - 150 gr.
Chicken eggs - 5 pcs.
Onion (feather) - 1 bunch.
Rice - 100 gr.
Parsley - 1 bunch.
Salt.
Dill - 1 bunch.

Cooking algorithm:

Such a simple dish can be made without rice (less work) or with rice (more work, but also yield). Rinse the rice with water, dip in salted boiling water, cook until fully cooked (20 minutes or a little less). In order not to stick together and not burn, constant stirring is required.
Boil the eggs until fully cooked, state - hard boiled, time - 10 minutes. Drain water from corn. Rinse greens, dry.
You can proceed, in fact, to the preparation of the salad. First sticks, eggs cut into small or medium cubes. Chop greens.
In a deep salad bowl, mix corn, rice, chopped sticks, eggs. Salt, lightly season with mayonnaise. This should be done just before serving, sprinkle with chopped herbs.

White, yellow and green colors lettuces look very bright, festive, spring-like!

Delicious crab salad with cabbage

Russian housewives, unlike Japanese ones, actively use ordinary white cabbage combined with crab sticks. Indeed, these two products complement each other, cabbage makes the salad more juicy, and sticks give the dish a pleasant fishy flavor. In addition, the cost of the initial ingredients is quite low, so even students can cook it.

Ingredients:

White cabbage - 200-300 gr.
Crab sticks - 200 gr.
Onion (small head) - 1 pc.
Canned corn - ½ can.
Lemon - ½ pc.
Salt.
Mayonnaise sauce (mayonnaise) - a few tablespoons.

Cooking algorithm:

For this salad, you do not need to boil vegetables, so you can start cooking almost before eating. Chop the cabbage, ideally into thin strips (novice housewives will have to practice, experienced ones have already mastered this rather complicated technological process). The thinner the cabbage is cut, the sooner it will release the juice, and moreover, the dish looks more appetizing.
Cut the sticks crosswise or into medium-sized cubes.
In a deep salad bowl, put chopped cabbage, chopped sticks, half a can of corn.
Peel the onion, rinse under the tap, cut into cubes, their size depends on the skill and desire of the hostess. You can scald it with boiling water, then its sharp taste will disappear.
Take half a lemon and squeeze the juice into a salad bowl, or sprinkle the prepared ingredients. Lightly salt, mix gently, add mayonnaise.

You can immediately salt the chopped cabbage, crush it a little. Then it will be more tender and juicy, and at the end of cooking it is no longer necessary to add salt.

Crab salad with tomatoes

Cheese and tomatoes are two products that go well together. But experimenting housewives have found that crab sticks can make a “pleasant company” for this couple. A little effort, a minimum of products and a wonderful salad becomes a real decoration of the dinner.

Ingredients:

Crab sticks (crab meat) - 200 gr.
Tomatoes - 300 gr. (4-5 pieces).
Hard cheese (such as "Dutch") - 250-300 gr.
Garlic - 2 cloves.
Mayonnaise (to the taste of the hostess).

Cooking algorithm:

Tomatoes must be washed. Peel the garlic, rinse, squeeze it into mayonnaise, let it brew a little.
You can start preparing the salad: it is better to use a glass salad bowl, because the salad looks very nice “in section”.
Cut tomatoes and sticks at the request of the "cook" - into small cubes, straws. Grate the cheese using a grater with medium holes.
Place half of the crab sticks in a glass salad bowl, grease with garlic mayonnaise. Top with a layer of tomatoes, mayonnaise, a layer of cheese.
Then once again repeat the crab sticks, a layer of mayonnaise, tomatoes, a layer of mayonnaise. The top "cap" of the salad should be made of cheese.
It is good to decorate such a salad with fresh herbs - parsley, dill or onion feathers.

Salad with crab sticks and cheese

Crab sticks are a unique product, they go well with many vegetables, eggs and cheese. Below is one of the easiest recipes to prepare, a novice hostess will also get yummy.

Ingredients:

Crab sticks - 240 gr.
Hard cheese (such as "Dutch") - 200 gr.
Chicken eggs - 4-5 pcs.
Salt.
Garlic - 1-2 cloves (depending on size)
Corn - 1 can.
Mayonnaise.

Cooking algorithm:

First you need to boil the eggs - you need to put them in boiling water, slightly salted, so that they do not burst.
Cooking process - 10 minutes, then quickly lower them into ice water, it helps with the removal of the shell. Clean, cut.
Cut the so-called sticks into plates. Grate the cheese.
In a deep bowl, mix the sticks, boiled eggs, corn, cheese. Salt lightly.
Peel the garlic, rinse, pass the slices through a press into mayonnaise.
Dress salad with mayonnaise-garlic dressing. Let it brew (up to 15 minutes).

How to make crab bean salad

Interestingly, instead of canned corn, many housewives use with the same success cooked beans packaged in tin cans. And the most skilled cooks prefer to cook beans (or beans) for salad on their own. Admittedly, this will take a lot of time.

Ingredients:

Ready canned beans - 1 can.
Crab sticks (or meat) - 200-240 gr.
Salt.
Greens - a bunch of dill, parsley.
Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
Mayonnaise (can be replaced with mayonnaise sauce).

Cooking algorithm:

Pre-boil fresh eggs (cooking time until hard-boiled - 10 minutes). Ready eggs cool, peel. Cut into cubes (large or medium - as desired).
Remove crab sticks from packaging, cut each into cubes or slices.
Rinse the greens, dip in ice water for 10 minutes, dry. Drain water from beans.
Put the cooked ingredients into a deep beautiful salad bowl - eggs and plates of crab sticks, add beans and very finely chopped greens there. Salt, season with mayonnaise.

A salad that uses red beans looks especially beautiful. On top, additionally decorate the salad using greens or cherry tomatoes, cut into 2 or 4 parts.

Salad "Red Sea" with crab sticks

Another dish, based on crab sticks, consists of affordable products, is easy and quick to prepare. It received the name "Red Sea" because of the color of the main ingredients - sticks, tomatoes and bell peppers, also red.

Ingredients:

Crab meat (or sticks) - 200 gr.
Juicy, ripe tomatoes - 3-4 pcs.
Red (bulgarian) pepper - 1 pc.
Garlic - 1-2 cloves.
Hard cheese - 150-200 gr.
Mayonnaise sauce (or mayonnaise).
Salt.

Cooking algorithm:

You don’t need to pre-cook (fry, boil) anything for a salad, so you can start cutting food right before lunch or dinner.
Wash the tomatoes, remove the stalk, cut with a very sharp knife in the form of a long thin straw.
Wash the bell pepper, remove the "tail" and seeds, also cut into strips.
Then carry out the same operation with crab sticks: peel off the packaging, cut into pieces.
Grate cheese (you can choose large or medium-sized holes).
Peel the garlic, rinse, crush with a knife, salt to release more juice, move with mayonnaise.
In a glass salad bowl, mix the products, season garlic mayonnaise sauce, additionally do not salt.

crab salad recipe with pineapple

It would be nice to use real crab meat for the next salad (canned). If finances are tight, you can replace with ordinary crab sticks, they also go well with pineapples.

Ingredients:

Sticks - 1 pack (200 gr.).
Mayonnaise sauce (unsweetened yogurt, mayonnaise).
Hard cheese - 200-250 gr.
Onion - 1-2 pcs.
Canned pineapple pieces - 1 can
Chicken eggs - 4-5 pcs.

Cooking algorithm:

Such a salad looks gorgeous in the form of layers, so the products need to be prepared and then placed in a deep salad bowl.
Boil chicken eggs for 10 minutes (hard boiled), cool, cut the whites into cubes, mash the yolks with a fork in a separate plate.
Drain the pineapple filling.
Grate cheese (grater with small or medium holes).
Cut the peeled and washed onion into thin half rings, scald, rinse with water.
Put sticks on the bottom of the salad bowl, coat with mayonnaise. Then - squirrels, chopped onion half rings, pineapple cubes, grated cheese. Between the ingredients is a layer of mayonnaise.
Decorate the top of the salad with mashed yolk, add a little greenery, your favorite parsley or, for example, dill.

Important: the salad does not need to be salted, on the contrary, thanks to pineapples, it will have a slightly sweet original taste.

How to make crab salad in layers

The same salad can be served twice different ways, household members will not even believe that this is the same dish. The first time you can mix all the ingredients and just season with mayonnaise (sauce).

The second time, you can lay the same products, prepared and chopped, in layers in a salad bowl, each spreading lightly with mayonnaise. Here is a recipe for one of the stick-based salads that looks amazing and tastes amazing.

Ingredients:

Crab sticks - 200 gr.
Mayonnaise.
Apple (sweet and sour) - 1 pc.
Salt.
Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
Fresh carrots - 1 pc.
Cheese (ideally - hard varieties) - 150 gr.

Cooking algorithm:

Eggs will require the most time for cooking - they need to be salted with water, boiled for 10 minutes, cooled, peeled. Separate from each other by cutting into different containers, proteins and yolks.
Chop the sticks into strips.
Wash the apple, cut into strips.
Peel, wash, grate the carrots (grater with large holes).
Put in a salad bowl in turn - sticks, apples, proteins, yolks, carrots, cheese. At the same time, grease each layer with mayonnaise.
Sometimes you can find the same recipe, only instead of mayonnaise it is offered unsweetened yogurt. Then the dish becomes truly dietary.

Delicious salad with crab meat and mushrooms

The original recipe suggests using crab sticks and canned champignons. A rather rare combination, but why not try to conduct a creative experiment in the kitchen and surprise the household.

Ingredients:

Sticks - 200 gr.
Champignons - 400 gr.
Onion - 1 pc.
Pepper, salt, vinegar.
Chicken eggs - 5-6 pcs.
Carrots - 2 pcs.
Vegetable oil for frying.
Mayonnaise.
Greens for decorating the dish.

Cooking algorithm:

According to this recipe, the onion needs to be pickled. To do this, cut it into strips, put in a porcelain bowl. Salt, add sugar, pour apple (ideally) vinegar.
Stew carrots in oil until soft, cool.
Remove the packaging from crab sticks, cut into plates or cubes.
Boil the eggs for 10 minutes in salted water, remove the shell, cut into cubes.
FROM canned champignons drain the fill, cut into slices.
Mix the prepared products in a deep bowl, then carefully transfer to a beautiful salad bowl.
The dish is ready, you can invite relatives and friends to taste the new original salad!

Crab salad with apples

For a salad that contains crab sticks, rice and corn are most often chosen as “partners”. But, if you add just one apple, then the taste of the dish will change dramatically. The salad will be more tender, dietary.

Ingredients:

Crab sticks - 240-300 gr.
Rice (long grain) - 150 gr.
Corn - 1 can.
Sweet and sour apple - 1-2 pcs.
Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
mayonnaise and salt.

Cooking algorithm:

The first step is to boil the rice: rinse it, dip it in salted boiling water, cook for 15-20 minutes (until cooked), stir all the time so as not to stick together. Drain the water, rinse the rice, leave to cool.
Boil eggs - 10 minutes, also cool, peel.
Cut sticks, boiled eggs and apples in the same way - into strips.
In the same container, add rice, corn kernels.
Season with mayonnaise, salt a little.
A little green turn regular salad into a masterpiece culinary arts which will undoubtedly be appreciated by friends and colleagues.

Spicy salad recipe with crab sticks, cheese and garlic

The so-called crab meat or its analogue, crab sticks, is a neutral product, it does not have a pronounced taste and aroma. That is why garlic is often found in salad recipes, it gives flavor and spice to the dish.

Ingredients:

Crab sticks -340 gr.
Corn - 1 can.
Eggs - 4-5 pcs.
Greens (dill) - 3-5 branches.
Hard cheese - 200 gr.
Garlic - 3-4 cloves.
Mayonnaise.
Salt.

Cooking algorithm:

Boil fresh eggs (the norm of time is 10-12 minutes). Cool, clean.
Cut eggs, cheese, sticks into cubes.
Squeeze garlic into mayonnaise, leave for 10 minutes to infuse.
Mix all chopped ingredients in a salad bowl, add corn and chopped dill.
Gently mix, then season with mayonnaise, a little salt.
The light aroma of garlic stimulates the appetite, and therefore the salad disappears in the blink of an eye.

Healthy crab salad with carrots

Naturally, crab meat is much more useful than sticks called crab, but it is quite expensive. On the other hand, completely different products (more affordable in price and availability) help to make the salad useful. For example, a salad recipe with canned corn and fresh carrots.

Ingredients:

Crab sticks - 1 pack.
Canned milk corn - 1 can.
Boiled eggs - 4-5 pcs.
Carrots - 1-2 pcs.
Mayonnaise.
Sea salt.

Cooking algorithm:

Everything is extremely simple. Peel the carrots, rinse from dirt, chop into very thin strips or grate.
Boil chicken eggs, grate.
Throw the corn on a sieve.
Cut sticks into slices.
In a container, mix the components of the salad, pour mayonnaise, mix again.
Now arrange in bowls or in a salad bowl, sprinkle with herbs.

Unusual Korean crab salad

"Carrot-cha" is a well-known product, popular in the East. In this form, the favorite vegetable is good on its own, as a snack and as part of various dishes.

Ingredients:

Crab sticks - 200-250 gr.
Carrots in Korean - 250 gr.
Boiled eggs - 3 pcs.
Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
Corn - ½ can.
Mayonnaise (or mayonnaise sauce) - 1 pack.

Cooking algorithm:

Cut carrots into small enough pieces, cucumbers and crab sticks into strips, boiled eggs into cubes.
Drain ½ can of corn in a colander.
Mix everything, sprinkle with salt, mayonnaise, mix again.
Sprinkle the salad with fresh herbs (chopped finely), the dish of the day is ready!

How to cook a salad with crab sticks and chicken

Another recipe suggests combining crab sticks and chicken together. Chefs take into account the fact that there is nothing from real crabs in sticks, and a modern product is made from ground fish.

Ingredients:

Sticks - 100 gr.
Boiled chicken meat - 100 gr.
Canned corn - ½ regular can or a small jar.
Boiled chicken eggs - 3-4 pcs.
Greens are fresh.
Salt (you can take sea salt), mayonnaise.

Cooking algorithm:

Boil chicken fillet (half breast) with onions, salt, seasonings.
Cut the chicken sticks and meat into strips.
Throw the corn on a sieve.
Boil eggs (10 minutes), cool. Then chop them and onion feathers.
Simply mix the products in a salad bowl, add salt, mayonnaise (or unsweetened yogurt), mix again.

Households can try for a long time to guess what ingredients are used in this salad, except for onions and corn.

Delicate crab salad with avocado

Many housewives successfully use rare vegetables and fruits, such as avocados, in cooking. It spices up the familiar.

Ingredients:

Avocado - 1 pc.
Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
Crab sticks - 200 gr.
Hard cheese - 100-140 gr.
Lemon juice - 1-2 tbsp. l.
Garlic - 1-2 cloves.
Oil (preferably olive)
Sea salt to taste.

Cooking algorithm:

This simple salad is prepared just before serving, wash the avocado and cucumber, peel and chop.
Cut crab sticks into slices or cubes, grate cheese or cubes.

Salad with crab sticks in its popularity can compete with Russian salad, vinaigrette and Caesar. The dish is served to festive table and consumed on weekdays. Traditionally, the salad is prepared on the basis of canned corn and crab meat. Components such as cucumber, rice, onion are added at will. There are many options for the dish, each person will find a recipe based on personal preferences.

Salad with crab meat and kiwi

table mustard ( liquid consistency) - 55 gr.
crab meat - 330 gr.
kiwi - 2.5-3 pcs.
chicken egg - 3 pcs.
fresh cucumbers (small size) - 1 pc.
mayonnaise sauce - 140 gr.
canned corn - 0.25 kg.
feather green onions - 4 pcs.

Defrost crab meat, let excess water drain. Then cut the product into slices (thin plates). Send to the salad bowl with the first layer.
Boil the chicken egg, separate the whites and chop them finely. Rub the yolks with mayonnaise and mustard using a blender. Peel the kiwi, rinse to eliminate the villi, chop into cubes.
Rinse green onion feathers, chop into circles. Rinse the cucumbers, remove the ends from the vegetables, cut them lengthwise. Then chop each half into slices. Drain water from corn.
Mix all the ingredients of the salad, laying out the ingredients in layers. Pour each row with mustard-mayonnaise sauce. You can sprinkle the top with herbs, cheese or grated egg yolk.

Salad with fried crab sticks

quail egg - 6-8 pcs.
mayonnaise (for sauce) - in fact
mushrooms (preferably champignons) - 330 gr.
crab sticks - 0.35 kg.
vegetable oil - 60-80 ml.
turnip onion - 1 pc.

Chop the onion in half rings, fry in oil until golden. Extract finished product in a separate bowl, leave the oil.
Chop the crab sticks in circles, send to the pan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly. When the product is fried, mix it with onions.
Add boiled quail eggs cut in half to the main components. Separately chop the mushrooms along the leg, fry until the volume is lost.
Combine all ingredients in a salad bowl, season with salt and pepper. Season with low fat mayonnaise (up to 30%). Refrigerate for half an hour, then taste.

Salad with pickled mushrooms and crab

crab sticks - 280-300 gr.
chicken egg - 3 pcs.
steamed rice - 120 gr.
mayonnaise sauce (for dressing) - in fact
chanterelle mushrooms (marinated in vinegar) - 230 gr.
grated cheese (hard) - 1 handful
greenfinch (any) - to your taste

Throw the pickled mushrooms into a colander, rinse with a tap to remove plaque. Then leave to drain the remaining liquid. Cut the mushrooms into small pieces, add some vinegar (you can skip this step).
Boil eggs, cool and peel. Cut first into 2 parts, then chop into slices. Mix with mushrooms. Add chopped green onion, parsley and dill to this.
Boil the steamed rice until tender and dry a little on a sieve. Salt, send to a salad bowl. Grind crab sticks in a convenient way.
Connect all components. Optionally, you can add chopped fresh cucumber to the dish. Dress the salad with mayonnaise, sprinkle with grated cheese.

Crab salad with ham and potatoes

potatoes - 280 gr.
crab meat - 280 gr.
lime juice - 25 ml.
champignons - 160 gr.
Bulgarian pepper - 3 pcs.
olives - 15 pcs.
greens (optional) - 20-30 gr.
olive oil - in fact
ham or bacon - 0.1 kg.

Rinse the mushrooms, cut them into slices along the stem. Fry for olive oil before volume reduction. Cool and remove excess fat. Boil potatoes, cut them into cubes.
Bulgarian pepper free from seeds, chop into short strips. Defrost crab meat, cut it in random order.
Drain the brine from the olives, remove the pits if necessary. Cut each fruit into 2 sections. Chop greenfinch to your choice, chop bacon or ham into thin plates.
Mix the listed ingredients, you can add a fresh cucumber. Now prepare a salad dressing based on lime juice, olive oil, mayonnaise or sour cream, salt, ground pepper. Add sauce, taste.

canned corn - 210 gr.
green onion feathers - 3 pcs.
chicken meat - 330-350 gr.
crab sticks - 320 gr.
mayonnaise sauce (fat content up to 45%) - 180 gr.
any cheese - 90 gr.
cherry tomato - 150 gr.

Spare chicken fillet from the films, boil the meat in low-salt water until tender. Cool, transfer to a skillet and fry for butter to the crust. Chop the hot chicken into slices, put in a salad bowl.
Drain the brine from canned corn, partially dry the grains themselves from the remaining liquid and add to the chicken. After rinsing, chop the onion feathers in circles, mix with the bulk.
Crab sticks must be thawed in advance at room temperature. Then each copy is cut lengthwise, after which it is chopped into half slices.
Salad cherry tomatoes should be cut into quarters or halves, according to personal preference. Grate the cheese hard grade on a small grater. Put all the ingredients in a salad bowl, season with mayonnaise, salt, eat.

Salad of crab sticks with tomatoes and garlic

canned corn - 260 gr.
onion - 1 pc.
crab meat or sticks - 300 gr.
quail egg - 4 pcs.
garlic cloves - 3 pcs.
cherry tomatoes - 7-9 pcs.
sweet pepper - 1-1.5 pcs.
chicken fillet - 200 gr.
greenfinch - in fact
mayonnaise (40-50% fat) - in fact

Boil the breast and eggs separately, cool the food. Cut them into slices, move to a salad bowl. Pour it in here canned grains corn.
Wash the tomatoes and cut each of them into 2 parts. Rinse the pepper, remove the seeds, cut into bars. Grind greens, mix with mayonnaise, salt, pepper.
Chop the crab meat arbitrarily, combine with the rest of the ingredients in a salad bowl. Chop the onion into rings, fry and also add to the total mass.
Now pass the garlic cloves through the press, add the gruel to the mayonnaise sauce. Dress the salad with filling, refrigerate for 20 minutes. Use.

Crab salad with Chinese cabbage

marinated corn - 130 gr.
lettuce or chinese salad- 5 leaves
cucumber - 1 pc.
chicken egg - 3 pcs.
tartar sauce or mayonnaise - 70 ml.
crab sticks - 240 gr.

Boil the eggs, then let them cool. Chop into plates or cubes, send to a salad bowl. Add chopped cucumber and pickled corn.
Tear the salad with your hands, chop the crab sticks. Combine with the rest of the ingredients, season with tartar sauce (mayonnaise, Caesar, etc.).

Crab salad with beans and mussels

greens - 15-20 gr.
mussel cocktail - 80 gr.
sunflower oil - 30 ml.
cucumber - 1 pc.
crab meat - 175-200 gr.
red beans (canned) - 250 gr.
mayonnaise sauce (fat content up to 35%) - 40-60 gr.
sweet pepper - 1 pc.

Rinse the cucumber, finely chop it. Chop greenfinch (parsley, onion, dill). Free sweet pepper from seeds, chop into strips.
Drain the marinade from canned beans Leave the beans in a colander to dry. After 10 minutes, send the beans to the salad bowl to the rest of the ingredients.
Grind crab meat and mussels (if they are large). Prepare dressing from mayonnaise sauce, ground white pepper, curry, oil, salt. Pour the salad with this mixture, mix, treat your loved ones.

crab sticks - 225 gr.
cucumber - 2 pcs.
large shrimp - 300 gr.
corn kernels in marinade - 230 gr.
liquid mustard - 25 gr.
egg - 5 pcs.
sour cream - 90-100 gr.
mayonnaise sauce or Caesar - 80 gr.

If possible, use unpeeled shrimp, they turn out juicier after heat treatment. Boil the seafood product in lightly salted water, cool.
Rid the canned corn from the brine, pour the grains to the shrimp. Boil eggs, if possible, take quail. Cut the product and mix with other ingredients.
Grind crab sticks or meat, cucumbers. Make a sauce by combining liquid mustard (canteen) with mayonnaise, sour cream, spices and salt. Pour dressing over salad and serve chilled.
If you pour this salad with Caesar sauce, add croutons and cherry tomatoes, you will get interesting dish. Often, rice or peas are added to the products.

Salad with crab meat and pineapple

sour cream with fat content up to 20% - 80 gr.
avocado - 1.5 pcs.
fresh pineapple - 100 gr.
crab meat - 280 gr.
cheese "Dor-blue" - 60 gr.
steamed rice - 180 gr.
mayonnaise with fat content up to 25% - 60 gr.
onions - 0.5 pcs.

After washing, boil the rice until cooked and cool. Let excess liquid drain. Send the grains to the salad bowl first row. Place chopped onion on top.
Peel and pit the avocado, cut into small cubes (less than 1 cm). Lay out the second layer, pour over with mayonnaise and salt. Grind crab meat, cheese and fresh pineapple.
Mix all the ingredients, prepare the main dressing. To do this, combine sour cream with the remains of mayonnaise, season with salt and pepper. Pour the salad, garnish with herbs, serve.

Crab salad with oranges

mayonnaise - 55 gr.
orange (small) - 2 pcs.
egg - 5 pcs.
canned corn - 275 gr.
crab meat - 280 gr.
garlic cloves - 3 pcs.

Boil eggs, cool, chop special device or a knife. Drain the marinade from the can of corn, let the grains dry, add to the eggs.
Chop the crab meat, pass the garlic cloves through a crusher. Remove the orange part of the zest from the orange and grate it. Cut the pulp into cubes.
Combine the salad ingredients in a deep bowl, season with low-fat mayonnaise. If you wish, you can supply the dish with fresh cucumber and greenfinch.
If desired, you can replace oranges with grapefruits, apples, fresh (!) Pineapples and other similar ingredients. Salad goes well with walnut sauce.

Treat friends and family original version crab salad. Prepare a dish with the addition of pineapples or oranges, tomatoes, shrimp, mussels, Chinese cabbage. Add sautéed or pickled mushrooms to bring out the flavor of the salad. Experiment with spices and sauces.

Video: salad with crab sticks and fresh cucumber

It is believed that crab salad was first prepared in the Soviet Union. Over the years, interest in this snack has only increased. Every hostess has her own original recipe crab salad.

Crab salad (step by step recipe) - basic cooking principles

Classic crab salad made with eggs, fresh cucumbers, onions, canned corn and crab sticks. Later, boiled rice was added to the appetizer.

In many ways, the taste of the salad depends on the quality of the main ingredient - crab sticks. It is better, of course, to use a chilled product. But mostly they are sold frozen. Whatever crab sticks you use, they should be fresh, juicy and tight. Many consider this product to be harmful, however, this is not entirely true. They are made from fish, while retaining all the vitamins and minerals. Of course, they contain dyes, preservatives and food additives. If you occasionally cook this snack, then you will not bring any harm to the body.

Crab meat is also sold in stores. In composition, it is identical to crab sticks, but the price is much higher. Therefore, it is up to you to decide which product to use.

AT last resort, crab sticks can be replaced with boiled fish fillet mackerel or hake.

Salad eggs are best used at home. They are boiled hard. Don't put eggs in hot water. The shell may burst and the protein will leak out. Therefore, the eggs are taken out of the refrigerator, poured with water and put on the stove to boil. Then the water is drained, and the product is poured with cold water. This is done to make the eggs easier to peel. The peeled eggs are finely chopped.

A jar of canned corn is opened, the syrup is drained.

Crab sticks, if they are frozen, are thawed. Then the film is removed from them and crushed in the same way as eggs.

Cucumbers should be fresh, firm, with a bright green skin. The vegetable is washed and chopped right with the peel. This will add color to the salad.

Onions are peeled, washed and finely chopped. To get rid of bitterness, pour boiling water over it. If use green onion, then it is simply washed, dried, cut into small rings and immediately added to the salad.

For salad with rice, use long-grain or round. The groats are thoroughly washed, after which they are laid out in a saucepan and poured with plenty of water. Lightly salted and boiled until done. Then the rice is thrown into a colander or sieve and washed under running water.

Fresh herbs are also added to the salad. It is washed, dried and crushed with a sharp knife.

All ingredients are put in a large bowl and seasoned with mayonnaise. It is better, of course, if it is prepared independently. Mix carefully. If necessary, salt and serve.

For a change in crab salad ( step by step recipe with photo) you can add fresh cabbage, apples, pineapple, fresh vegetables, beans, squid, mushrooms, cheese, etc.

Recipe 1. Crab Salad: Step by Step Recipe

Ingredients

crab sticks - 100 g;

salt;

two chicken eggs;

mayonnaise - to taste;

fresh cucumber;

fresh herbs- taste;

canned corn - half a can;

onion - 50 g.

Cooking method

1. First of all, boil the eggs. Take them out of the fridge, put them in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Do not put eggs in hot water, as a sudden change in temperature may crack the shell and the contents will leak out. Put on the stove. Boil for ten minutes over medium heat. Drain the boiling water, and place the saucepan with the eggs under a stream of cold water. You can wipe them with a napkin from moisture and place them in the refrigerator for a while. This is necessary so that the shell can be easily cleaned. Peel the eggs from the shell and chop with a sharp knife into small pieces, or grate with large sections.

2. Open a jar of corn with a special key or a sharp knife. Then carefully pour off the syrup. You can't let it get into the salad. Otherwise, the appetizer will turn into a stew of unknown origin.

3. Now take care of the crab sticks. If you are using a frozen product, take it out of the freezer and leave it on the counter. Never speed up the defrosting process with a microwave or oven. Remove the crab sticks from the packaging. Remove the film from each. Then grind them with a sharp knife, or grate coarsely. Crab sticks cut into pieces will keep their shape better.

4. Wash fresh cucumber, wipe with paper kitchen towel and cut both sides. If the skin is bitter, you can cut it off. Then chop the vegetable with a sharp knife into thin strips. It is better, of course, to cut the cucumber directly with the peel. Firstly, it contains fiber, which is so necessary for our body. Secondly, bright green color will add colors to our salad. In addition, thanks to the peel, the pieces will retain their shape and will not get lost in the salad.

5. Peel the onion, rinse under running water and finely chop. Put the chopped onion in a deep bowl and pour boiling water over it. Hold for a few seconds, then sow the water, and squeeze the onion. This is done in order to remove bitterness. Feel free to use green onions if you have one. It is enough to sort it out, rinse, dry it slightly and chop it into small rings.

6. Sort fresh dill and parsley. Remove yellowed and sluggish twigs. Rinse the greens and chop them with a sharp knife.

7. Place all prepared ingredients in a large bowl. Add mayonnaise. You can use both bold and low-calorie product. It depends on what kind of snack you get: light or satisfying. The ideal solution would be to make your own sauce from refined oil and egg yolks using a blender. If you do not have mayonnaise, you can season the appetizer with sour cream. Gently toss the salad.

8. You can beautifully serve crab salad (step by step recipe with photo) in a transparent salad bowl, or put it on a plate, after covering it with lettuce leaves. You can serve an appetizer in portions in creamers. The feed will look original in sand baskets or tartlets.

Recipe 2. Crab salad (step by step recipe) with rice

Ingredients

boiled rice- 200 g;

fresh dill and parsley;

crab sticks - 200 g;

iodized salt;

five chicken eggs;

mayonnaise - to taste;

two fresh cucumbers;

onion greens - a bunch;

canned corn - 340 g.

Cooking method

1. We take out the crab sticks from the freezer and leave them on the table to defrost. Do not speed up the process with a microwave, oven or hot water. Everything must happen naturally. This is for frozen food. If you are using chilled crab sticks, great. Remove them from their packaging and remove the thin film from each. Then lay one at a time on a cutting board, cut in half lengthwise, flip to the other side and make another cut lengthwise. Now crumble across into small pieces. Place in a deep bowl.

2. Wash fresh cucumbers under the tap. Wipe them with a kitchen paper towel and cut off both sides. To peel or not, decide for yourself. Lay the cucumber on a cutting board and cut in half lengthwise. Cut each half lengthwise into strips and crumble across into small cubes. Send the chopped cucumbers to the bowl with crab sticks.

3. Use homemade eggs, but if there are none, store-bought ones will do. Take them out of the fridge, place them in a small saucepan and cover them with cold water so that it completely covers them. Place the saucepan on the stove. Cook over medium heat for ten minutes. In no case do not lower the eggs into boiling water, otherwise the shell may burst and the contents will leak out. Remove the saucepan from the heat and pour off the boiling water. Cool the eggs in cold water. Then take the eggs out of the water, wipe them and peel them. Place on a cutting board and cut into small pieces with a sharp knife. Send to the rest of the ingredients. Eggs can be chopped with a special egg cutter.

4. Open a can of canned corn using a special wrench or sharp knife. Drain off the liquid completely. To do this, it is better to pour the contents of the jar into a sieve and leave for a few minutes. It is very important that there is no syrup left, otherwise the salad will simply turn into an incomprehensible mess. Pour the canned corn into the bowl with the other ingredients.

5. Rice can take round or long-grain. Rinse it well. Place in a saucepan, cover with plenty of water and season with salt. Put on a small fire and cook until tender. Then recline on a sieve and rinse under running water, stirring constantly. Once all the moisture has drained, lay the rice with the rest of the ingredients.

6. Rinse dill, onion and parsley, dry slightly and finely chop. Send after the rice.

7. Dress the salad with mayonnaise and mix gently. It is better to fill in portions, so it will not leak and retain its taste qualities.

dressing salad better with mayonnaise home cooking or sour cream.

Use homemade eggs for salad. With them, the appetizer will turn out brighter and tastier.

Carefully drain the syrup from the corn so that it does not subsequently spoil the taste and appearance of the snack.

Dress the salad just before serving.