Delicious snacks have always been an honor on any festive table. Salad with crab meat and avocado is considered to be the most original and simple one.
Sometimes you want to cook something unusual and simple and please your loved ones. One of these creations is a salad with crab sticks and avocado. The unusual taste and lightness of the salad will not leave indifferent any of your family members.
Consider the step-by-step making of several delicious salads.
Avocado and crab salad with cedar sauce and ham croutons
To prepare an interesting salad, we will need the following ingredients:
- crab meat, or crab sticks in the amount of 400 g;
- shallots - 25 g;
- Caesar sauce;
- Hamon toast - 40g;
- pesto sauce;
- red beans -150g;
- avocado - 100g;
- mung bean salad - 100g;
- pine nuts (small handful).
This amount of ingredients is enough for 4 servings. The cooking time does not exceed 20 minutes.
- Before cooking, you need to prepare a container in which the salad will be placed. It is better to take deep rectangular bowls, so the salad will take on a more sophisticated look.
- At the first stage, cook red beans until tender, do not allow them to be boiled. If there is absolutely no time for this, it is quite possible to use a canned store option.
- Mix the boiled beans with the pesto sauce and carefully place the first layer in the mold.
- Cut the crab meat or sticks into small pieces and mix with onions and Caesar sauce (a ready-made sauce that is sold in a store is quite suitable). Put the resulting mixture on the beans.
- A large avocado is cut into large long slices and placed in the next layer.
- Grind a piece of jamon in a blender and mix with pine nuts and olive oil. Mix the resulting mass and pour the salad over it.
- Jamon is laid out as decoration, which is fried until crisp in the oven.
The most delicious salad is ready!
Salad with Kamchatka crab, avocado and mango with banana sauce
Despite the complicated name, the salad is prepared very quickly and easily. Let's take a look at how to make this culinary miracle step by step. For the salad, we need the following products:
- 1 ripe medium-sized mango;
- 2 cucumbers;
- avocado - 1 piece;
- crab meat - 1 pack;
- orange juice - 100 ml;
- soy sauce - 30 ml;
- dried bananas.
- The crab meat package is cut into long thin slices and the first layer of salad is laid out.
- Cut cucumbers and avocados into small cubes, mix together and sprinkle with this mixture crab meat.
- At the third stage, the mango is peeled and the massive bone is removed. Cut the fruit into small cubes and spread in the next layer.
- Place the dried bananas, soy sauce, and orange juice in a blender. Beat until smooth. Pour the resulting sauce over the salad and let it soak for half an hour.
The original fruit and vegetable salad is ready!
Salad with soft curd cheese, crab and avocado
This salad is perfect for a festive table. Due to the fact that there are no potatoes and eggs we are used to, the salad turns out to be light and tender.
In order to prepare a simple lady salad, you will need the following ingredients:
- crab meat - 200 g;
- 1 ripe avocado
- 1-2 small cucumbers;
- curd cheese 50 g;
- light mayonnaise, or yogurt - 2 tablespoons;
- 1 ripe lemon
- greens.
- The step-by-step preparation of the salad begins with cutting the avocado. We peel the fruit and remove the bone. Place the avocado in a plate and knead with a fork until smooth. This is why the avocado must be ripe.
- Salt and pepper are added to taste. Sprinkle the avocado with lemon juice.
- The crab meat is cut into small cubes and transferred to a salad bowl.
- We wash the cucumbers and cut them. If the cucumbers are young, you don't need to peel them off.
- Season the salad with curd cheese and mayonnaise, mix thoroughly.
- Decorate the finished dish with sprigs of herbs.
Salad with crab meat and tomatoes
Crab salad has always been easy to prepare. The standard recipe has changed a lot over the years, but the taste of your favorite dish has not deteriorated. The addition of tomatoes to the salad was a good decision and turned a simple classic recipe into an original dish.
To prepare crab salad with tomatoes, we need the following ingredients:
- crab meat - 300 g;
- cherry tomatoes - 5-6 pieces;
- green salad, or iceberg salad;
- 1 ripe avocado
- half a lemon;
- salt pepper;
- sour cream - 3 tablespoons;
- butter - 1 tablespoon;
- apple cider vinegar - 12 ml.
Let's consider step by step how to prepare this salad.
- The crab meat is cut into small cubes and fried in pre-melted butter. Do not fry for more than 5 minutes, as the meat may dry out.
- Lettuce leaves are used as a decoration, not an ingredient, so they are washed thoroughly and laid out on a plate.
- Cherry tomatoes are washed in cold water and cut into quarters.
- Peel the avocado, remove the seed. The pulp is kneaded until puree.
- All prepared ingredients (tomatoes, avocado, meat) are mixed in a deep bowl.
- Add to the mixture the juice of half a lemon, apple cider vinegar, sour cream and salt with pepper to taste. Mix the salad thoroughly.
- The prepared salad is spread on lettuce leaves and the finished dish is decorated with herbs.