How to make natural crab salad?

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-09 15:28

Now we will tell you how to prepare a natural crab salad. The recipe for its creation will be discussed step by step in our article.

Note that the meat of this marine life is a very light, tasty and he althy product. True, natural crab is expensive. Therefore, many people allow themselves such a delicacy only on holidays. At normal times, most of us replace it with crab sticks, which are made from surimi at best. Anyone who has tried real sea creature meat understands that the difference between these two products is great.

Snow Salad

This dish got its name not because of the original serving or frosty taste, but because of its main component - snow crab meat. All other ingredients that are in the dish are quite simple and ordinary. Therefore, you won’t spend much on them.

This natural crab salad is delicious, it is perfect for a festive feast or a romantic evening for two lovers.

For cooking you will need:

• four chicken eggs;
• two large cucumbers;
• 500 grams of boiled-frozen natural crab meat;
• tablespoon of vinegar (6%);
• red onion;
• 150 grams of hard mild cheese;
• three tablespoons of mayonnaise.

Cooking delicious salad

1. Thaw crab meat. Let the resulting juice drain, separate the veins. Then cut into thin chips.
2. Boil eggs, cool, peel. Then take out the yolks, put them in a separate container. This salad requires only proteins. Cut them into strips.



3. Wash the onion, peel the husk. Then cut the vegetable into cubes or half rings. After scalding with boiling water, add a little vinegar. Let the onion marinate for seven minutes. Then drain the brine, dry the onion.
4. Remove the thin skin with a vegetable peeler from the washed cucumber. Then grate.
5. Do the same with cheese.

6. Now you need to assemble a salad of natural crabs. In a separate deep bowl, combine the cucumber pulp, dried onion, crab meat, egg whites and cheese (most of it).

7. If desired, you can also add some greens (chopped). Season the resulting mixture with mayonnaise sauce. After put in portioned vases or in a large plate salad of natural crabs. Top with cheese shavings.

Puff salad

Now let's look at another version of how a natural crab salad is prepared. Note that the main ingredient must be prepared and cut by yourself. But believethe time and effort spent will definitely pay off with rave reviews from guests and an unusual taste of the dish.

To prepare a salad with natural crab meat, you will need:

• two large cucumbers;
• one live crab medium in size (approximately weighing one kilogram);
• one bay leaf;
• five tablespoons of quail egg mayonnaise;
• 170 grams of hard sweetish cheese (such as Maasdam and others);
• garlic clove;
• ninety grams of canned peas;
• 180 grams of ripe and sweet tomatoes;
• two tablespoons of sea s alt;
• five peppercorns;
• one lime or lemon;
• two pieces of cloves.

Cooking an interesting crab dish: a step by step recipe

1. Cooking live crab is easy, you just need to follow further instructions. First, pour water into a large saucepan. In volume, it should be twice as much as the weight of the crab. Let the water boil, add bay leaf, sea s alt, cloves and peppercorns. Then peel the garlic, push through the press, add to the broth. Lime (or lemon) wash, cut. Then squeeze the juice into the pan. Stir. Let the broth boil again.
2. After throw the crab into the brine, wait until the liquid boils. And cook for sixteen minutes. There is no need to cook more time, as the crab will become “rubber”.
3. After the specified time, remove it from the brine, put it on the back, cool. Putting it on a plate is exactly so that the meat does not flow outjuice.



4. While the main component cools down, let's move on to the others. Rinse the tomatoes, cut into thin circles, which are then divided into quarters.
5. Wash the cucumbers, remove the skin, cut into medium cubes.
6. Cut the cheese exactly like the cucumber.
7. Drain the brine from the peas.
8. Cut the crab. To do this, open the shell with a knife, remove the meat, separate the mucus from it, as well as the gills. Cut the claws, remove the fillet. Then mince the meat.
9. Gather the lettuce in layers in random order. Spread each layer with mayonnaise.
10. Garnish the crab shavings salad. There is no need to coat the dish with mayonnaise on top.

Salad of natural crab meat. Chinese cabbage recipe

Such an unusual dish will delight lovers of both s alty and sweet. This delicious salad has both fruits and more satisfying ingredients.

For cooking you will need:

• 45ml lemon juice;
• two big green sour apples;
• 400 grams of boiled-frozen crab meat (of course, natural);
• five green onion feathers;
• garlic clove;
• 25 ml apple cider vinegar (6%);
• s alt (to taste);
• ninety milliliters of olive oil;
• 150 grams of Chinese cabbage.

Cooking a delicious natural crab dish: step by step instructions

1. First, defrost the meat, pour s alted boiling water over it for a few minutes. Afterdrain. Then separate the meat into fibers.



2. Wash the apples, peel them, remove the cores. Cut one fruit into cubes. Save the other one for the base of the sauce. Puree it in a blender. Then add vinegar and lemon juice, garlic (pressed through a press). S alt all this mixture (half a teaspoon will be enough). Then set the bowl of ingredients aside.
3. Now take Chinese cabbage, peel it, chop it.
4. Cut onion feathers.
5. Now it's time for you to assemble the natural crab salad. How it's done? Everything is quite simple. In one deep plate, combine all the ingredients, namely: green onions, apple, Beijing cabbage and, of course, crab meat. Then drizzle the garlic-apple sauce and olive oil over the ingredients.