Crab salad with potatoes: selection of ingredients and recipe

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Salads with crab meat and crab sticks are a great solution when you want to taste something not too heavy, but very satisfying. On a holiday, on weekdays and even as a snack at work - everywhere this dish is appropriate. But how many recipes do you know? Today we will especially focus on crab salads with potatoes. Recipes without rice enjoy undying interest among our citizens. There are always a couple of potatoes in the house, it will not be difficult to buy other components for them.

The steps are simple. We read our selection of recipes, collect products and proceed to practical actions. But before we start to conjure in the kitchen, we will dwell on small nuances.

About potatoes

Before directly preparing crab salad with potatoes, we will need to prepare in advanceone of the important ingredients is potatoes.

You can cook it in two ways. Do you like the option of cooking a dish based on peeled boiled root crops? We clean and cook until cooked. Don't forget to s alt the water. Drain the water from the finished potatoes for crab salad, cool and use as intended - chop into a salad.

And if potatoes boiled in their skins are more attractive, then we cook them without peeling them. Potatoes cooked in these two ways will taste completely different. Try it, you will understand what we are talking about. Perhaps a variation of potatoes boiled with skins will be a highlight in the preparation of all salads in which it is included.

How and how much to cook jacket potatoes for salad? First, it must be washed very thoroughly with a brush. It is better to take medium-sized tubers so that they reach readiness at the same time. Then the potatoes are poured with cold water a centimeter above the level of root crops. Throw in half a teaspoon of s alt. We put it on the stove. We count the time from the moment of boiling. Cook for about thirty minutes. We check for readiness. To do this, pierce one root crop with a fork or knife. The absence of a characteristic crunch is a sign of readiness.

How and how much to cook other ingredients

Boiled carrots and eggs are also added to the crab salad with potatoes. Boil carrots in a salad in the same way: mine, cook until the moment when it does not crunch when pierced with a knife or fork. Drain the water and also be sure to cool completely.

Cook eggs for crab salad, counting from boiling for 8-10 minutes. Drain the boiling water and immediately add very cold water to them. After standing for half an hour in such water, the eggs cool faster, it is easier to free them from the shell. Now get to work!

Salad with crab meat (or chopsticks)

Most popular and endlessly loved, this snack option is the most frequent on the holiday table. Ingredients:

• 200 grams of crab sticks (or meat).
• One medium carrot - boiled and peeled.
• Two boiled eggs.
• Potato - 2-4 tubers of medium diameter.
• Can of canned sweet corn.
• Small onion - 1 piece.
• Fresh cucumber - optional.
• Chives or dill - optional.
• Add mayonnaise and s alt to taste.

How to make a salad with crab sticks, potatoes and eggs

Potatoes, carrots and eggs are boiled in advance until fully cooked and peeled and shelled.

Cut these three components into small cubes and send them to a salad bowl. Now you need to release the crab ingredient from the packaging. Also chop into cubes.

If you decide to use a cucumber for your dish, then you need to wash it and chop it finely. I must say that even without cucumber this salad is very good.

The onion must be cut very finely.

Drain the liquid from the corn and put the grains in the salad.

S alt all the ingredients to taste, season with mayonnaise. If desired, add greens to the snack. Simple and delicious crab salad is ready.

Royal

Crab salad with shrimp and potatoes is truly a royal treat. Let's check the availability of the following set of products:

• Crab sticks or meat - 200-230 grams.
• Boiled potatoes - 3 pieces.
• Boiled eggs - 2-3 pieces.
• Cheese - 150 grams. It is preferable to take hard or semi-hard varieties.
• Caviar caviar - 1 can (180 grams).
• Peeled shrimp - 100-150 grams.
• Mayonnaise - to taste.

More about cooking

All components in crushed form are laid out separately for now.

Crab sticks, eggs and potatoes cut into small cubes. We grate the cheese on a grater of medium or fine fraction.

Lettuce is collected in layers, placing them at our discretion. The most significant moment - the shrimp are laid out on the surface of the salad. Coat each layer with mayonnaise (except caviar). Lettuce can be served in a transparent bowl to show the layers. It is also allowed to form an appetizer in the form of a cake, decorating with shrimp. Can be served in separate glasses (cremansk), it will already be a cocktail salad.

With an apple

To get acquainted with new tastes, sometimes quite unusual at first glance, you need to experiment more boldly in the kitchen. This salad is very suitable for this purpose. Ingredients List for Apple Crab Salad:

• Potatoes - 2-3 pieces.
• Egg - 2-3pieces.
• Large apple - 1 piece.
• Crab sticks - 200-400 grams.
• Onion - 1 medium head.
• Mayonnaise and s alt to taste.
• Boiled carrots - optional. Quantity at the discretion of the experimenter.

Step by step instructions

Cook potatoes, eggs and carrots in advance. Cool and peel them.

Release sticks from packaging. You can cut them into cubes or short strips.

Chop the onion finely. Rinse it with water to wash away the bitterness. Soak for 20 minutes in the marinade. To prepare the marinade, vinegar and water are mixed in a ratio of one to one.

Chop potatoes and carrots into cubes or grate on a coarse grater.

Eggs will be processed as follows: grate the whites on a coarse grater separately from the yolks. We simply crush the latter so that they turn into a homogeneous loose mass.

Products are ready. Let's form the dish in layers. We will cover each ingredient with a mesh of mayonnaise or simply brush with sauce.

1. Put the potatoes on the bottom of a dish or a transparent salad bowl. Lightly s alt it.
2. The second layer will be pickled onions.
3. Apple wash. Remove the peel from it and grate it too. This is the third layer. Due to the fact that the apple darkens very quickly during processing, we cook it immediately before adding it to the salad. Don't forget the mayonnaise.
4. Sprinkle the apple layer with straws of crab sticks. More mayonnaise. Do not put too much sauce: in the process of infusion, itwill spread as it should.
5. The fifth layer will be pureed squirrels. They need to be leveled more carefully. Another fine mesh of mayonnaise.
6. If you wish and have products, you can repeat the layers again.
7. Finish the salad with a layer of yolks. And then the appetizer is decorated with greens as desired.

It is advisable to keep the snack for at least 15-30 minutes before serving.

With marinated mushrooms and cheese

Another not quite familiar option. But a lot of people already love it. Salad Ingredients:

• Marinated champignons - 150 grams.
• One pack of crabmeat or sticks - 100-250 grams.
• Two medium potatoes.
• Carrots are one thing.
• Chicken eggs - 4 pieces.
• Pigtail cheese, smoked - 100 grams.
• Mayonnaise - optional.
• Greens - optional.

Boil potatoes, eggs and carrots in advance and peel. First, place the chopped components in different bowls. A little later, we will form an appetizer in one salad bowl:

• On a grater (large) three vegetables and eggs.
• Sticks cut into thin slices or grated.
• Cheese will be cut no more than a centimeter long and slightly disassembled into fibers.
• Remove the mushrooms from the marinade. Cut them into strips.

Lay out in layers in the following order:

1. Potatoes.
2. Eggs.
3. Crab sticks or meat.
4. Cheese.
5. Carrot.
6. Mushrooms.

Each layer should be smeared with mayonnaise sauce. We decorate the surface of the finished salad with herbs. The appetizer served on lettuce leaves looks beautiful.

You can place small caps of pickled mushrooms on the surface and sprinkle them with herbs. Decorate the salad of crab sticks with smoked cheese and mushrooms as your fantasy tells. The main thing is to give it time to brew in the refrigerator for at least 15-20 minutes. A juicy, satisfying and unusual snack is ready. Call the tasters and start sampling.