Crab salad has become a frequent guest not only at the festive table.
Chopsticks combine with a variety of ingredients, prepare excellent snacks.
One of the win-win combinations is a trio of chopsticks with tomatoes and cheese.
What salads can I make from it?
Salad with crab sticks, tomatoes and cheese - general principles of preparation
If you look at the products that are sold in our stores, then the sticks and crab meat differ only in shape. Therefore, you can use an ingredient of any kind. Chopsticks (meat) are chilled and frozen, there is not much difference between them. In any case, check the expiration date.
Tomatoes in crab salads use fresh. You can take full tomatoes or cherry. If miniature tomatoes are used, then this is usually indicated in the recipe.
The cheese for salads is taken very different: hard, brine, processed. The product is rubbed or cut. It is added directly to the dish, used in layers or sprinkled with a snack on top.
Puff salad recipe with crab sticks, tomatoes and cheese
This appetizer can be collected in a few minutes if the sticks are not frozen.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of sticks;
• 3 tomatoes;
• 0.15 kg of cheese;
• 0.5 bunch green onions;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 150 ml of mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Put the mayonnaise in a bowl, add the clove of garlic chopped finely, throw a pinch of salt and stir.
2. Dice the sticks.
3. Tomatoes cut in half, take out the pulp with seeds. Then also cut into cubes.
4. Three cheese finely or coarsely, as you like. Just chop the onion.
5. We collect in layers. First, crab sticks, grease the sauce.
6. Next, spread the tomatoes, grease and sprinkle with onions.
7. Onion is cheese, leave a couple of spoons for sprinkling.
8. Lubricate the cheese layer with mayonnaise, then sprinkle with dry chips. Done! Garnish with greens, tomato slices.
Tender salad with crab sticks, tomatoes and cheese
For this salad, in addition to tomatoes, you will also need sweet pepper. You can take pods of different colors.
Ingredients
• 2 boiled eggs;
• 200 g sticks or crab meat;
• 2 sweet peppers;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• mayonnaise;
• 120 grams of cheese.
Cooking
1. Tomatoes and bell pepper cut into neat straws, mix together and spread the base layer of the salad. Do not salt, do not pepper.
2. Cut the sticks, put in a bowl.
3. Grind eggs, garlic and also shift to sticks.
4. Add half the cheese, diced. We rub the remains.
5. Mix eggs, sticks and garlic with mayonnaise. We do not make liquid mass. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
6. Spread the mixed layer on top of the vegetables.
7. Sprinkle with cheese that was previously grated. Let the salad stand for half an hour.
Salad with crab sticks, tomatoes and cheese (with corn)
A variant of mixed salad, not only corn gives a special taste. Onion for the dish is pre-marinated in vinegar.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of sticks;
• 0.3 kg of tomatoes;
• 0.2 kg of canned corn;
• 1 large onion;
• vinegar;
• 0.2 kg of cheese;
• 0.2 kg of mayonnaise;
• 3-4 eggs.
Cooking
1. Take a large and juicy onion, pour water with vinegar, make the marinade to taste, it should be very acidic.
2. Cook the eggs. While they cool, you can cut all the other ingredients.
3. Chopsticks with chopped cubes, as well as tomatoes and cheese, we drop everything into a bowl.
4. We clean the eggs, also cut the product into cubes.
5. Drain the onion in a colander, let all the droplets drain.
6. Combine all the ingredients of the salad, season with spices and put the mayonnaise. Stir.
7. Serve in a common salad bowl or portioned.
Light salad recipe with crab sticks, tomatoes and cheese
A feature of this recipe is Beijing cabbage. Instead, you can use the Iceberg salad, it will also turn out delicious. Olive oil based dressing.
Ingredients
• 0.3 kg of Beijing cabbage;
• 7 cherry tomatoes;
• 100 g of cheese;
• 6-8 sticks;
• 3 tablespoons olive oil;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 10 olives;
• salt, parsley.
Cooking
1. We are preparing a gas station. To do this, mix olive oil and juice squeezed from a prescription lemon. Solim.
2. Cut the cabbage into small cubes.
3. Add chopped sticks.
4. Cheese cut into cubes, then diced. Also shift to cabbage.
5. Add parsley greens to the salad, pour the dressing and stir.
6. We shift in a beautiful salad bowl or slide on a flat dish.
7. Cut the cherry and olives in half.
8. We spread it beautifully on the salad. Immediately serve until the vegetables have released juice.
Salad with crab sticks, tomatoes, cheese and apple
A variant of a spicy salad, which is prepared with a green apple. Here the dish is collected in layers, but this is not necessary. In a mixed form, it also turns out delicious.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of sticks;
• 1 apple;
• 2 tomatoes;
• cheese about 150 g;
• 0.18 kg of mayonnaise;
• 1 salad onion;
• salt, dill.
Cooking
1. Cut across the crab sticks, make thin plates and immediately spread the first layer. Lubricate with mayonnaise.
2. We take salad onion and finely chop. If the onion is ordinary, you can scald it with boiling water. This technique will kill bitterness.
3. Put the onion on sticks.
4. Peel the apple, also finely cut, bypassing the stub with seeds, lay on top of the onion.
5. Lubricate the apple with a drop of sauce. You can just make a thin mesh.
6. We take out the seeds from the tomatoes, cut the pulp, spread it with a new layer and also coat.
7. Three cheese finely. If the salad was going in a bowl, then just lay out a new layer. If the appetizer is being built on a dish, then you can also cover the sidewalls.
8. For a mixed salad, we cut all the ingredients, including cheese, into cubes and season with mayonnaise.
Salad recipe with crab sticks, tomatoes and cream cheese
A variant of an economical salad in which processed cheese goes. To make it easy to cut into cubes, place in a freezer for a while.
Ingredients
• 10 pieces. sticks;
• two tomatoes;
• eggs 3 pcs.;
• one cucumber;
• clove of garlic;
• some mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Peel hard-boiled eggs, cut into small cubes.
2. Remove the sticks from the films. The product should already be thawed. Also cut into cubes.
3. Remove the seeds from the tomatoes, just rinse the cucumber. Cut together, add to the rest of the salad ingredients.
4. We get the cheese, also cut into cubes. We try to immediately separate them, to prevent gluing together.
5. Mix the mayonnaise with a clove of garlic. First you need to chop it. You can sprinkle a pinch of dried garlic.
6. Add black pepper to the salad from the sticks.
7. Spread mayonnaise dressing, stir.
8. If necessary, add salt, dill, parsley.
Salad with crab sticks, tomatoes, shrimp cheese
A variant of a festive salad with a chic design and amazing taste. We take small shrimps, tomatoes need cherry.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of shrimp peeled and boiled;
• 12-15 cherry tomatoes;
• 70 grams of parmesan;
• 10 olives;
• 4 eggs;
• 0.15 kg of sticks;
• 0.3 kg of corn;
• 1 cucumber;
• 4-5 tablespoons of mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Cook the eggs, cool. Then peel and cut into small cubes.
2. Add chopped cucumber.
3. Thawed sticks clear of the protective film, chop into cubes.
4. Add the corn, mayonnaise. Stir. Put enough mayonnaise to combine all the ingredients, but do not make the salad liquid.
5. Place the salad on a large, flat plate. Make a rounded slide. Sprinkle the top with parmesan.
6. Cut the cherry in half. Lay the tomatoes downside down around the base of the mountain.
7. On the surface, lay the peeled shrimp in one layer.
8. Cut the olives into pieces that fit into the bend of the shrimp. Arrange a slice of olive in each shrimp.
9. The salad is ready! Do not let him stand for a long time, otherwise the vegetables will release juice.
Salad with crab sticks, tomatoes, crackers and cheese
This is a salad option that can be prepared just before the guests arrive. Immediately remove the sticks from the freezer. If time is short, then you can defrost in a microwave.
Ingredients
• pack of sticks;
• a pack of crackers;
• mayonnaise 200 g;
• three tomatoes;
• cheese 180 g;
• garlic 1 clove.
Cooking
1. Cut the tomatoes into cubes.
2. Add the sticks. Just cut each side. It will look like a circle or a square, depending on the initial shape.
3. Cheese is also cut into cubes. It is better not to take a grater for this salad.
4. Squeeze the garlic and season with mayonnaise. If there is corn, then it can also be added, it will not be superfluous.
5. We mix everything well, do not salt, since crackers usually contain a lot of spices.
6. Before the arrival of guests or serving, open crackers, stir.
Salad with crab sticks, tomatoes and cheese - useful tips and tricks
• Puffed salads need to be lubricated with thin mayonnaise and it is most convenient to make a mesh. To do this, pierce the pack and apply the desired amount to the layer. You do not need to smear anything. If the mayonnaise is in the jar, then it can be transferred to an ordinary bag.
• It is advisable not to salt the layers of fresh vegetables, do not season with other spices. Then the liquid will not accumulate on the dish.
• You can decorate salads with a variety of products. Some housewives create real paintings on snacks. But you need to remember that the decor should consist only of those products that are in the salad. Do not put peas or red caviar on it if these ingredients are not inside the dish.
• Everyone knows that mayonnaise is quite a harmful and high-calorie product. But few people know how to replace it with delicious sauces on sour cream. Add lemon juice to it, put a spoonful of mustard, spices. For spice, you can add soy sauce.
