Delicious salads with crab meat

In our culinary tradition, seafood has always been considered a delicacy. Recently, however, on the shelves of stores appear affordable semi-finished products from seafood, which allow you to master this niche of cooking. For example, a salad made from a frozen product with crab meat is firmly established in both everyday and festive diets.

Many fans of crabs confuse two products - crab sticks and crab meat. The fact is that crab meat is a frozen fillet from the abdomen, claws and limbs of a crustacean animal. At the same time, sticks are made from white meat of fish - surimi. Therefore, the second product has little to do with crabs, despite the outward resemblance. However, in the recipes of salads, these ingredients are completely interchangeable.

As for crab meat, it is possible to cook not only snacks from it, but also:

• casseroles;
• cakes;
• sandwiches, etc.

In addition, a significant advantage of the crab product is its versatility: you can eat dishes with it hot or cold - in both cases, the aftertaste will be very light, sweetish-salty. Combines crab meat with:

• vegetables;
• rice;
• eggs;
• greens;
• canned food, etc.

And, of course, you can not go past the nutritional value of the product. Crab meat contains vitamins of group B, which are responsible for the proper functioning of the nervous system, vitamin PP, which is involved in metabolism, as well as many trace elements necessary for the normal functioning of the whole organism.

Product preparation

Before you start cooking salads or any other crab meat dishes, you must prepare it - boil it. This concerns the raw product (if the meat is canned, then it does not need preliminary preparation).

Instruction:

1. Crab meat is dipped in boiling water.
2. Salt, add bay leaf, pepper and cook for 3 minutes. In no case do not need to digest the product, otherwise its taste will resemble rubber.
3. Give cool and cut into salads.

As for crab sticks, they are simply thawed. True, there is one peculiarity: if hot snacks are made from the meat of crabs or sticks, then it is recommended to fry it lightly in olive oil.

Salad with crab meat: a recipe with photos

A classic recipe for crab salad is an option that has eggs and mayonnaise.

Ingredients:

• 250 grams of crab meat;
• 3 boiled hard boiled eggs; 1 small lettuce;
• 200 g of sweet canned corn;
• salad mayonnaise;
• greenery.

Cooking:

1. Prepared crab meat cut into squares.
2. Shred onions with thin half-rings, pour boiling water over - so we will get rid of the bitterness of the vegetable.
3. Cut eggs into small cubes.
4. In the salad bowl, mix eggs, crabs, onions and corn.
5. We dress with mayonnaise and put a couple of greens for decoration. The dish is ready.

Such a salad, as a rule, is very popular, so it is eaten very quickly. If you want to make it more satisfying, then add the recipe with one more ingredient - boiled rice (about ½ tbsp.)

Delicious salad "Hawaiian"

As mentioned above, crab meat is perfectly combined with a wide variety of vegetables. Therefore, for the preparation of delicious snacks, you can use vegetable mix "Hawaiian mix".

Ingredients:

• 400 g vegetable assortment;
• 200 grams of crab meat;
• 2 boiled hard boiled eggs;
• light salad mayonnaise.

Cooking:

1. Prepared crab meat cut into small sticks.
2. Boil the Hawaiian mixture for about 5 minutes in lightly salted water, decant and let cool.
3. Finely cut eggs.
4. Mix in a bowl of crabs, eggs and assorted vegetables.
5. Fill with mayonnaise and let it brew for 10 minutes. The dish is ready.

For dressing in this salad, you can pour and olive oil (2-3 tbsp. L). If you like savory snacks, then mix the oil with 1 tbsp. l vinegar (table or wine).

Festive snack "Avocado"

If you want to cook an unusual and tasty dish that will be a worthy decoration of the holiday table, then make a snack of crab salad and avocado.

Ingredients:

• 300 grams of crab meat;
• 2 long fresh cucumbers;
• 1 apple (preferably sweet and sour variety);
• 1 tbsp. l lemon fresh;
• 1 avocado fruit;
• 3 boiled eggs;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 70 g red or capelin roe;
• 4 tbsp. l salad mayonnaise;
• salt;
• greenery.

Cooking:

1. Prepared meat cut into cubes.
2. Finely chop the cucumber.
3. Straw cut apple, pour it with lemon juice.
4. Blender grind eggs mixed with 1 tbsp. l mayonnaise.
5. Combine eggs, apple and cucumber.
6. From the avocado, remove the bone, remove the pulp with a spoon and mix with finely chopped garlic. Add 1 tbsp. l mayonnaise.
7. In a small salad bowls lay out a layer of garlic, apple, crab.
8. We pour with mayonnaise, we put a hill of caviar and we decorate with greens.

Crab Salad with Tomatoes

Tomatoes perfectly set off the sweetish taste of crab meat, so these two ingredients combine very well in salads - for example, in a snack with cheese.

Ingredients:

• 200 grams of crab meat;
• 2 boiled eggs;
• 200 g melted (or hard) cheese;
• 1 sweet pepper;
• 1 large tomato;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• salad mayonnaise;
• salt, pepper

Cooking:

1. Cut the crab meat into strips.
2. Grind eggs with a blender or fork.
3. Semicircles cut pepper, diced tomato.
4. Hard cheese rubbed on a grater, if melted, then mash with a fork.
5. Pour the mayonnaise into the bowl and mix with the finely chopped garlic (you can use the garlic dish).
6. Mix tomato, pepper, eggs and crab meat.
7. Dress the sauce and sprinkle with cheese.

This same salad can be made multi-layered. To do this, the ingredients are laid out in an arbitrary sequence and richly promazyvaetsya garlic mayonnaise sauce.

Gourmet salad with oranges

If you like the original flavor combinations, then enjoy an excellent crabs salad with oranges.

Ingredients:

• 200 crab meat;
• 2 large oranges;
• 3 boiled hard boiled eggs;
• 200 g of sweet canned corn; 1 clove of garlic;
• salad mayonnaise.

Cooking:

1. Crab meat cut into strips.
2. Use a sharp knife to cut each slice of orange into 3 pieces.
3. Grate eggs and garlic.
4. We decant the corn.
5. In a deep bowl, mix the ingredients, dress with mayonnaise. The dish is ready.

Crab meat salad is a delicious and delicious dish that can be cooked in several versions. At the same time its aesthetic and gastronomic qualities always remain on top. In addition, it is not difficult to prepare crustacean meat salads, and the necessary products are quite accessible even in the region most distant from the seas and oceans.