So that the salad with crab sticks is not too heavy, high-calorie, it is worth diluting its ingredients with fresh cucumber. It is delicious to fill such snacks not only with the usual mayonnaise, but also with sour cream with aromatic additives. For example, with garlic and colored peppers.
"Rainbow" salad
Ingredients:
- fresh cucumbers - 3 small;
- tomatoes - 3 pcs.;
- canned corn grains - a full glass;
- hard grated cheese - a full glass;
- crackers - a full glass;
- salted mayonnaise sauce to taste.
Preparation:
Cut the vegetables into approximately equal neat cubes. If your cucumbers have very hard skins, you should cut them off or remove the large seeds from the inside.
Send prepared vegetables to a large bowl. Send corn grains, crushed cheese, crackers to them. The latter can be prepared by yourself by drying cubes of white bread in the oven or in a skillet. Store croutons are also suitable - garlic, sour cream, onion. Since the salad contains crab sticks, you can even use the shrimp, crab, squid and other seafood flavors.
Mix everything, season with salted sauce and serve. The appetizer is fresh, tasty, juicy.
Korean carrot snack
Ingredients:
- juicy crab sticks - 180-200 g;
- Korean carrots (home / store) - 180-200 g;
- boiled eggs - 3 pcs.;
- corn grains (canned food) - half a can;
- fresh cucumbers - 1 medium;
- salted mayonnaise to taste.
Preparation:
Drain the corn. Pour the grains onto a tray and leave them to dry, otherwise the salad may turn out too "wet".
If desired, shorten homemade or store-bought spicy carrots with special kitchen scissors. Remove the crab sticks from the films, cut into medium-sized pieces. The larger they get, the brighter their taste will be in the salad.
Remove the cooled eggs from the shell, finely chop into neat cubes. It is convenient to use a special egg cutter for this.
Last of all, chop the cucumbers into cubes or cubes. Do not grind too much in the process, otherwise a lot of liquid will flow out of the vegetable and they will become "sluggish".
Mix everything in a spacious salad bowl. Drizzle with salted sauce. Serve immediately for dinner, garnish with chopped herbs if desired. It must be remembered that the combination of eggs, mayonnaise, Korean carrots speeds up the souring process. Therefore, it is better to store a treat without sauce, and season it in portions for each meal.
Alenka salad
Ingredients:
- fresh champignons - 730-750 g;
- crab sticks (chilled) - 380-400 g;
- fresh cucumbers - 4 pcs.;
- pre-cooked eggs - 5 pcs.;
- white onions - 1-2 heads;
- salted mayonnaise, butter, fresh parsley to taste.
Preparation:
Peel the mushrooms. You do not need to wash them beforehand, otherwise the product will absorb a lot of liquid. You just need to rinse them with ice water for a couple of seconds and dry them.
Cut the mushrooms into medium to large pieces. Pour small onion cubes into the skillet. Add some vegetable oil. Fry food together until golden brown. Drain off any excess remaining fat so that the salad ingredients do not float in the oil. Allow the onion-mushroom frying to cool.
Cut the cucumbers together with the skin into cubes. Squeeze excess liquid out of them. Chop crab sticks into large strips, eggs into neat cubes.
Connect everything. Lastly, add washed, dried and finely chopped greens to the salad. Season the treat with mayonnaise. You can replace it with medium-fat sour cream with salt and garlic.
Original appetizer with persimmon without mayonnaise
Ingredients:
- ripe persimmon - ¼ fruit;
- lime - half of the fruit;
- crab sticks (not frozen, but chilled) - 8-10 pcs.;
- large fresh cucumber - half;
- bell pepper - half;
- fresh dill - a whole bunch;
- olives / olives - 8-9 pieces (required - pitted);
- little olive - 1-1, 5 tbsp. l.;
- mustard seeds - 1 small the spoon;
- natural bee honey - 1 small. the spoon.
Preparation:
Chop the crab sticks into large strips. It is worth taking a chilled product, as it is more juicy.
Cut the stem off the bell pepper. Remove the core with a sharp knife. Wash off all seeds. Cut the rest into cubes or strips. Grind fresh cucumbers with the peel in the same way.
Peel persimmon. Cut into arbitrary pieces. If the fruit "knits" strongly, it should first be kept in the freezer for half an hour.
Cut olives and / or pitted olives into thin slices. The amount of this ingredient can be reduced or increased to your liking.
Combine all prepared ingredients in a common bowl. Cover them with chopped dill.
For a low-calorie dressing without adding mayonnaise, you need to mix honey with butter and mustard. The latter can be sweet or spicy to your liking. Squeeze all the juice out of the lime half. Carefully select bones from it. Beat everything lightly with a hand mixer. You will get a fragrant sauce. Its thickness can be adjusted with an additional serving of olive oil.
Season the prepared salad with the original sauce. Gently mix everything so as not to knead the persimmon pieces. Serve the treat to the guests immediately.
Spring salad
Ingredients:
- crab sticks - 120-140 g;
- pre-cooked eggs - 2 pcs.;
- green onions - half a bunch;
- corn (canned food) - half a glass;
- fresh cucumber - half;
- "Peking" - 3-4 leaves;
- any sauce, dill - to taste.
Preparation:
Cool the pre-boiled eggs, peel and chop into arbitrary pieces. It is most convenient to do this with medium-sized cubes. You can also use a special egg cutter, then the pieces will turn out neater.
Remove the sticks from the packaging, remove the films. Cut into slices. Do not make them too small, otherwise the crab sticks will not be felt in the treat. Chop fresh cucumbers in the same way.
Rinse green onions, dry. Chop very finely without touching the white part. "Peking" is easy to tear with your hands. The white, hard part is best cut out and not used for salad.
Combine all components, add chopped dill to them, pour with your favorite sauce. If ordinary mayonnaise is chosen for a snack, it must first be seasoned with salt and pepper to taste.
"Kaleidoscope" salad with the addition of seaweed
Ingredients:
- sea cabbage (pickled) - 80-100 g;
- crab sticks - 80-100 g;
- processed cheese - 80-100 g;
- boiled eggs - 2 pcs.;
- fresh cucumber - 1-2 pcs. (depending on the size);
- purple onion - 60-70 g;
- mayonnaise with added salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Grind pre-cooked and cooled eggs into miniature cubes. You need to try to make them about the same size so that the appetizer looks beautiful. Chop fresh cucumbers and crab sticks into medium pieces.
Remove the husk from the purple onion. Cut into miniature cubes. To taste, it can be pre-marinated in a mixture of water, vinegar and sugar. In it, the onion pieces are left for about a quarter of an hour, after which they are wrung out.
Squeeze the seaweed from the excess marinade. If it is very long, the product should be shortened with kitchen scissors. Drain the excess liquid from the peas.
The last to prepare the processed cheese is to cut it into small pieces. To make it easy to grind, it is worth taking the product in the form of dense blocks of the "Friendship" type.
Arrange all prepared food in equal heaps on a round dish. Squeeze salted mayonnaise into the center of the plate. Sprinkle it with ground pepper. You can use other spices to your liking. Before taking a sample, mix the ingredients of the snack in a common plate.
Salad "Starfish"
Ingredients:
- fresh cucumbers - 1.5 pcs;
- boiled potatoes - 1 large tuber;
- slightly salted trout - 150-180 g;
- crab sticks - 4-6 pcs;
- boiled eggs - 2 pcs.;
- boiled shrimp (small) - 120-150 pcs.;
- salty mayonnaise to taste.
Preparation:
Cut one cucumber into small pieces and place on a large flat star-shaped plate. Top with grated boiled potatoes mixed with salted mayonnaise.
Spread thin slices of lightly salted fish in the next layer (leave some of it to decorate the snack). Cover them with grated eggs and crab sticks mixed with sauce. Lay out the remaining half of the cucumber, cut into thin slices.
Put the sliced (remaining) cucumber, pour over with mayonnaise. Cover everything with small peeled shrimps and cover with another layer of sauce. Decorate the finished salad with the leftover fish slices. Let it brew for a couple of hours in the cold.
Pickled ginger appetizer
Ingredients:
- crab sticks - 7-8 pcs.;
- seaweed, squeezed from the marinade - 3 tbsp. l.;
- fresh cucumber - 1 pc.;
- pickled ginger - 2 tbsp l.;
- iceberg lettuce leaves - 80-100 g;
- red onion - ¼ heads;
- cherry - 4-6 pcs.;
- light sesame seeds - 1 tbsp. l.;
- lemon - ¼ part of the fruit;
- red caviar - 1 tbsp l.;
- marinade left over from ginger - 1 tbsp. l.;
- mayonnaise with salt and pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Cut the cherry into halves. Remove the crab sticks from the films and cut into large strips.
Rinse lettuce leaves, dry and tear with your hands. Cut the red onion into thin rings / half rings.
Cut the ginger into thin strips. If it was bought in a jar filled with marinade, then you first need to drain and slightly squeeze out the excess liquid.
Remove the thick skin from the cucumber, divide the remaining pulp into 4 parts. Remove the seeds with a sharp thin knife. Cut the part without seeds and peel into slices.
Immediately send prepared vegetables and crab sticks to a bowl. Add lettuce leaves - their pieces can be made large. They will make the food juicier. Transfer the seaweed and ginger to the rest of the ingredients. Pour everything with strained lemon juice.
Season the appetizer with mayonnaise with the addition of ginger, salt and pepper marinade. Such an interesting treat, served on lettuce leaves, looks very nice. You need to decorate it with red caviar and sesame seeds.
Crab salad with pigtail cheese
Ingredients:
- pigtail cheese - 80-100;
- crab sticks - 130-150 g;
- cucumbers - 2 pcs.;
- pre-cooked eggs - 3 pcs.;
- garlic - 1 slice;
- greens, mayonnaise with salt and pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Divide the pigtail cheese into fibers. Cut them into small strips so that the salad is convenient to eat in the future.
Wash the cucumber. You can cut off the rind from it - this will make the finished snack softer. Cut the rest of the vegetable into random pieces.
Peel and dice boiled eggs. Mix all prepared ingredients. Add garlic to them - crushed or chopped with a grater. Pour chopped greens into a bowl. Green onions, parsley, dill, cilantro are perfect for such a salad. You can use an assortment or choose one type of greenery.
Mix everything well and pour over the sauce. Tasty to try the treat with a simple sour cream dressing. It is made from a medium fat dairy product, garlic and grated fresh cucumber.
