If in the middle of the last century the recipe for crab salad implied the indispensable presence of natural crab meat in a dish, today this dish is increasingly prepared from semi-finished products made on the basis of surimi. Crab salad with cucumber, which was previously considered a delicacy and served in expensive restaurants, is no exception, but today it has become almost an everyday dish.
The most common recipe for crab cucumber salad involves the presence of rice and corn in the dish. To prepare such a salad, you will need:
- 200 g of crab meat (or sticks);
- 100 g of rice;
- 1 medium onion;
- a can of canned corn;
- 2 fresh cucumbers;
- 4 eggs;
- mayonnaise, dill and salt to taste.
Boil and rinse the rice. Boil and slice chicken eggs. Cut the cucumbers and crab meat into small cubes. Mix all the ingredients, season with mayonnaise and garnish with fresh herbs. If desired, such a salad can be laid out in layers, greasing each layer with mayonnaise.
Natural crab meat is low in fat and rich in taurine. It also contains a whole range of minerals and trace elements useful for the human body.
To make a light diet salad, add shrimp and celery to the dish, and it is best to season it with low-fat yogurt. Take the following products for preparing a salad:
- 200 g of crab meat or sticks;
- 2 fresh cucumbers;
- 3 stalks of celery;
- 200 shrimps;
- yogurt for dressing;
- sea salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Boil the shrimp until tender and discard in a colander, after they have cooled, peel them. Cut crab meat, celery and cucumber into small cubes and combine with shrimp. Season the salad with yogurt and add sea salt and pepper to taste. If you want to make this dish high in calories, replace yogurt with mayonnaise or sour cream.
Many cucumber crab salad recipes use natural crab meat, which should not be substituted with surimi-based chopsticks. As a last resort, you can take canned crab meat to prepare this festive dish. Prepare the following foods:
- 200 g of porcini mushrooms or champignons;
- 300 g of crabs or a can of canned crab meat;
- 1 pickled cucumber;
- 1 red onion;
- greens for decoration;
- mayonnaise.
Boil the mushrooms in salted water, then cool and cut into small cubes. Grate the cucumber on a coarse grater. Cut the crab meat into cubes. Chop the red onion and add to the rest of the food. Season the salad with mayonnaise and garnish with sprigs of herbs.
For a festive version of the salad, you can add avocado to the dish, which will give the dish an unusually fresh and original taste. You will need the following set of products:
- 1 avocado;
- 200 g sticks or crab meat;
- 1 fresh cucumber;
- 100 g of celery;
- parsley, olive oil and salt to taste.
The basis of high-quality crab sticks is surimi - fish fillet purified from fat and excess moisture. Also, the so-called crab meat is produced from surimi.
Grate celery, and chop the cucumber and avocado into thin strips. Crab sticks or meat are also best cut into long thin slices. Add finely chopped herbs and season with oil.
This salad is vitamin, so it is better not to use mayonnaise for dressing, but if you still cannot refuse it, then it is better to take low-calorie mayonnaise or low-fat sour cream.
