In many families, crab salad is as popular as Olivier. The hostesses are happy to put a dish with crab sticks on the festive table, surprising guests with new and interesting tastes.
Crab salad can be very simple, or it can have a savory flavor, it all depends on the ingredients included in the dish. Due to the fact that crab sticks are in good harmony with many products, it turns out to create delicious snacks.
Below we will consider 2 simple recipes for making salad with crab sticks. The dishes will contain few ingredients, but at the same time they will have a great taste and pleasing to the eye with their appearance.
Crab salad recipe number 1
Salad with crab sticks, the recipe for which will now be described, turns out to be very juicy and bright. The dish is suitable for both New Year's feast and daily dinners.
To make crab salad, use the following foods:
- 1 pack of crab sticks (250 g);
- 1 can of canned corn
- ½ cans of canned beans;
- 1 medium head of onion;
- 4 chicken eggs;
- Mayonnaise to taste.
Make a crab salad with corn and beans like this:
- Boil the eggs, cool them, peel them, cut them into large enough cubes.
- Peel the onion, cut it as small as possible.
- Remove the crab sticks from the package, cut into thin rings.
- Open a jar of corn, put the product in a colander, let the liquid drain, otherwise the crab salad will turn out to be watery.
- Put the beans in a colander, rinse under running water, let the excess liquid drain. For cooking, do not use beans in tomato sauce. The legumes will taste too strong and overwhelm the rest of the food.
- Combine prepared ingredients in a deep bowl, add mayonnaise, stir crab salad.
Garnish the appetizer with sprigs of herbs before serving.
Crab salad recipe number 2
The crab salad, the recipe for which we will now discuss, has a very interesting taste, thanks to the ingredients that make up it. The dish has a presentable look and is suitable for a New Year's table, a romantic dinner, a family celebration.
To make a salad with crab sticks, take:
- 200 g crab sticks;
- 1 processed cheese (90 g, for example, "Druzhba");
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 2 garlic cloves;
- 2 slices of black bread;
- The juice of half a lemon;
- Salt, spices, mayonnaise to taste.
Steps for making crab salad:
- Hard boil the eggs, cool, remove the shell, cut into strips.
- Remove the crab sticks from the cellophane, cut the product into long strips.
- Unpack the processed cheese, cut it into strips. To prevent the product from sticking to the knife, hold the cheese for 5-10 minutes in the freezer before cutting it.
- Cut off the crusts from black bread, cut the product into long strips. Fry the bread in a dry skillet until crisp. If you have no desire to make crackers yourself, then buy ready-made ones, but choose a product that does not have a bright taste, otherwise you will ruin the salad.
- Combine the prepared ingredients in a convenient bowl, season with lemon juice, add garlic chopped with a press, mayonnaise. Stir the crab salad and serve the dish, garnish as you wish.
We looked at 2 recipes for crab stick salads. These are completely different dishes, but no less tasty from this. Try making both salad and decide which one you like best. Bon Appetit!
