Various variations on a salad of crab sticks with corn and rice

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

This dish is probably "on duty" for any festive meal throughout the post-Soviet space. Therefore, it may well be called popular and popular. Of course, today we will talk about a salad of crab sticks with corn and rice. It is prepared quite simply. Ingredients are available at any grocery store. And the cost also can not but rejoice. After all, it is only called "Crab". In fact, sticks are used as the main component, which are made from fish components.

Crab stick salad with corn and rice: ingredients

Experienced home cooks probably know the recipe, and more than one, of this appetizer. There are several options, but we will choose the classics of the genre. So, we need:

• 250 grams (pack) of crab sticks;
• canned sweet corn;
• half a cup of rice;
• 4 eggs;
• mayonnaise for dressing;
• s alt - personal taste;
• mixture of peppers inas seasoning;
• fresh greens for garnish.

And you can start making a salad of crab sticks with corn and rice.

Cooking easy

Practical part:

1. Boil hard-boiled eggs - about 10 minutes in boiling water. Cool and peel off the shell. Cut into cubes (you can also grate coarsely) and place in a container for making a salad of crab sticks with corn and rice.
2. The crab product is slightly thawed and cut into fairly large cubes. Or you can, if you want, break with long fibers for greater beauty.
3. Boil rice in s alted water until tender. It is better to take friable varieties that absorb liquid well. Long-grain, by the way, according to experts, is not suitable for this particular dish.
4. Place the rice, which must first be cooled a little, and the sticks in the container for the eggs.
5. Opening canned corn. We express excess water - let it drain in a colander.
6. Add corn to other ingredients.
7. All components of the salad with crab sticks, corn, eggs, rice carefully but gently mix. S alt and pepper to individual preference. Season with mayonnaise and mix again. It is necessary to achieve such a consistency of the dish when it has already been soaked in sauce, but has not yet turned into a mushy state.
8. Decorate with chopped fresh herbs. You can rub the boiled yolk or even hard cheese on top of the salad, laid out in bowls. And you can decorate it with curlyegg or vegetable cutouts. Here, show your culinary imagination - whoever can.
9. Now, in a mandatory way, you need to let the food brew a little at the bottom of the refrigerator. Well, that's all - you can serve it to the table.

Salad: rice, crab sticks, corn, cucumber

This version of the dish is no less popular among the people. Fresh cucumber gives the salad a special aroma and taste. And it is especially good to cook it in the season when cucumbers are quite inexpensive. But even in the winter, for sure, you can treat yourself to a delicacy. After all, today fresh vegetables can be purchased in stores almost all year round. It's just that in the cold they will cost an order of magnitude more.

Ingredients

For cooking we need:

• packaging "crabs" - 200-250 grams;
• 2 eggs;
• 100-150 grams of fresh cucumbers;
• half a cup of rice;
• a jar (200 grams) of canned sweet corn in its own juice;
• onion (better to take red onion);
• mayonnaise;
• s alt and pepper;
• fresh greens.

And you can start.

Cooking salad

Salad with crab sticks, corn and rice according to the recipe with the addition of cucumbers is prepared no less simply than its previous variation.

Instruction:

1. Defrost crab sticks and cut into cubes. Place in a large bowl.
2. Boil eggs, cut into cubes.
3. Boil rice, cool.
4. Drain the corn and add to the rest of the ingredients.
5. Chop the red onion finely.
6. Mix everything in a bowl, adding sliced fresh cucumbers (you can peel them if you wish).
7. S alt, season with pepper or a mixture of peppers and season with Provencal mayonnaise.
8. Place in portioned bowls, decorate with chopped greens and its sprigs and serve on the festive table.

Tips

Here are a few little tricks:

• As a substitute for a fresh vegetable, you can use a pickled analogue. With pickles, the version of the salad of crab sticks with corn and rice is vaguely reminiscent of Olivier with crab flavor.
• By the way, you can do without rice. In many families, the dish is prepared without this ingredient. Then exclude the cereal, and keep all other components in proportions.

Cheese snack option

This salad can be prepared with hard cheese. For him, we need:

• gram 300 crab sticks;
• can of corn;
• a pair of fresh cucumbers;
• 3-4 eggs;
• 200 grams of hard cheese;
• s alt and pepper;
• mayonnaise.

Boil eggs and cut into cubes. Coarsely grate the cheese. Cucumbers and sticks cut into cubes. Strain the corn into a colander to drain the water. We place all of the above ingredients in a container of suitable volume, s alt and pepper, season with mayonnaise. You can decorate the salad with grated yolk, cheese,branches of greenery. After - let it brew at the bottom of the refrigerator, but not in the freezer, and you can serve it to the table. Bon appetit everyone!