Crab meat salad with cucumber will help out when you need to quickly prepare an appetizer from a simple set of ingredients. It takes a little time to cut, but even the most demanding gourmet will like the taste. The salad turns out to be light on the stomach and fresh like spring. But this does not prevent it from being satisfying, since it contains high-calorie crab meat.
There are many options for preparing crab meat appetizers with cucumber. For example, fresh cucumber can be replaced with pickled cucumber, and shrimp can be used instead of crab meat. You can also include green peas or canned corn, dill, lettuce, onions, and rice among the ingredients. However, the basic recipe still remains unchanged and the most beloved for many.
Crab appetizer is a great variety for the daily menu. It can also be prepared before guests arrive. Many housewives include this appetizer among the dishes for the holiday table, especially for New Year's feasts. The salad is universal; both children and adults love it. And you can serve it at any meal: breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack.
Taste Info Salads with crab sticks
Ingredients
- crab meat – 150 g;
- chicken egg – 2 pcs.;
- fresh cucumber – 1 pc.;
- green onions - a quarter of a bunch;
- mayonnaise – 2 tbsp;
- salt - to taste;
- a mixture of ground peppers - to taste.
How to prepare a salad with crab meat and fresh cucumber
Remove pre-frozen crab meat from packaging and cut into small cubes.
Wash and peel the fresh cucumber - this will make the salad light and tender. It is better to choose a large cucumber. If you only have a small cucumber, then there is no need to peel it.
Cut the cucumber into thin bars. The thinner the bars, the more tender the snack will be.
Cool pre-boiled eggs under cold running water, remove shells and cut into large cubes.
Combine all chopped ingredients in a salad bowl or deep plate.
Separate the required number of green onion feathers from the bunch. Wash, chop and add it to the rest of the ingredients.
Add Mayo. If there is a lot of time left before serving, it is better to add mayonnaise later, just before serving.
Sprinkle a little ground pepper (you can just black pepper, or you can use a mixture of several peppers). If the mayonnaise is not salty enough, you can add salt to the salad.
Mix all the contents of the salad bowl well with a spoon.
A delicious salad with crab meat and fresh cucumber is ready! It can be refrigerated before serving (time permitting).
Note to the owner:
- canned corn is a common ingredient in crab appetizers; it is added at the request of the hostess. For the amount of ingredients indicated in the recipe, you will need 150-200 g of corn kernels;
- additional ingredients (such as green peas, onions, rice, cabbage) can be added at the request of the hostess - this way you can make the dish more varied and interesting;
- It is better to store the salad in the refrigerator for two days, after this time it may lose its taste;
- Before serving, the dish can be decorated with sprigs of herbs or lettuce leaves. You can serve it in the traditional way, or you can stuff tartlets with salad or wrap it in a sheet of Armenian lavash.
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Crab sticks go well with a large number of foods, so they are used for preparing appetizers, salads, first and second courses. , fried in batter, cooked into cutlets, added to soups, fillings for pies, pies, sandwiches and pita bread snacks. But the most popular dish with them is salad.
There are many cooking options, there are recipes with the addition of white or Chinese cabbage, potatoes, boiled rice, fresh or pickled cucumbers, beans, cheese, mushrooms and Korean carrots.
The classic recipe consists of canned corn, fresh cucumbers, boiled rice, eggs and onions. But to add a spicy new taste, we prepare a salad with crab sticks and pickled cucumber without rice. Hard cheese will add a special flavor to the dish.
Taste Info Salads with crab sticks
Ingredients
- Crab sticks - 1 pack (200 g);
- Canned corn - half a can;
- Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- Hard cheese - 70 g;
- Pickled cucumber - 1 pc.;
- Mayonnaise - 2 tbsp;
- Ground pepper, salt - to taste.
How to make crab salad with pickles
Open the corn and place it in a colander, let it stand for a while to let the liquid drain out.
30 minutes before cooking, remove the crab sticks from the freezer, let them thaw, peel them, and cut them crosswise into medium pieces.
We wash the chicken eggs, put them in cold water, put them on the fire and cook for 8-9 minutes after boiling. Fill with cold water, leave for 5-8 minutes, peel and cut into cubes.
Cut the pickled cucumber lengthwise into 2 halves, drain the liquid and cut into cubes. You can also use pickled cucumbers for cooking, but vinegar is added to the marinade to preserve them, which reduces the content of vitamins and microelements.
Coarsely grate the hard cheese.
Place the prepared sticks (reserving a little for decoration), eggs, cucumber and cheese into a bowl.
Add corn from a colander.
Spread mayonnaise on top.
Sprinkle with ground black pepper and salt.
Mix the salad, cover and place in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes so that all the aromas and flavors combine.
Take out the cooled delicious salad, put it in a salad bowl, arrange the remaining sticks beautifully on top and serve immediately.
Cooking tips:
- You can quickly defrost the sticks in the microwave. Clean them, transfer to a plate and heat for about 1 minute in the “auto-defrost fish” mode. Open and inspect the product periodically.
- A salad of pickled cucumbers and crab sticks will be more flavorful if you add fresh herbs to taste. Dill, green onions and/or parsley work great.
- To get a thicker and richer salad sauce, grind the hard cheese on a fine grater, mix with mayonnaise and add to the salad.
- Mayonnaise can be replaced with a dressing made from lemon juice, mustard and olive oil.
The salad will acquire a new taste if you pre-fry the thawed sticks in a small amount of oil (vegetable or butter).
Crab salad with cucumber and corn became one of the most popular as soon as crab sticks appeared on the shelves. Along with this, this salad was certainly prepared for the New Year's table. But later many new and tasty dishes and salads came to our menu, and the salad with crab sticks went into the shadows for a while. And recently I noticed that the popularity of this salad has grown again, many different recipes have appeared.
First, let's look at the classic version of crab salad - with corn and cucumber. Moreover, you can prepare such a salad either with or without the addition of rice, the main thing is that there are crab sticks or, even better, crab meat.
6 classic recipes for crab stick salad with cucumber and corn:
Crab salad with cucumber and corn without rice - classic recipe
This recipe is one of the simplest. Imagine that you have guests on the doorstep, you need to quickly set the table. And you have crab sticks and a can of canned corn. Well, I think it’s not difficult to find cucumbers and eggs in the refrigerator. And in literally 10 minutes a hearty and very tasty salad is born that you can feed your guests.
We will need:
- crab sticks - 250 gr.
- chicken eggs - 3-4 pcs.
- fresh cucumber - 1 - 2 pcs.
- green onions - 2-3 stalks
- fresh dill - a bunch
- salt, pepper - to taste
- mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. l.
- We remove the crab sticks from the protective film and cut them into cubes.
For unexpected guests, crab sticks can be purchased in advance and frozen. Before cooking, simply rinse them with hot water.
2. Chop a couple of green onions. Do not overdo it with onions, otherwise the salad will turn out bitter. You need very little onion for a hint of flavor. Fresh dill gives the salad a special flavor. In winter, if I don’t have fresh dill on hand, I add frozen. Add greens to crab sticks.
3. Boil the eggs, peel, cut into cubes and also add to the salad.
4. Place the finished canned corn in the salad.
Please note that for salads you need to choose unsweetened canned corn
5. All that remains is to cut the fresh cucumber into small cubes.
6. Mix all ingredients in a salad bowl, salt the salad and sprinkle with ground black pepper. If you are preparing a salad for guests, then knead the entire salad. And if you have prepared a salad for several days for your family, then you should season with mayonnaise only the portion that you will eat right away. It is better to store the rest of the salad without mayonnaise.
Crab stick salad with cucumber, corn and rice
The salad recipe is similar to the previous one, only we add boiled rice to the same ingredients. Perhaps this salad is even more classic, at least this is the recipe I remember from childhood.
We will need:
- crab sticks - 400 gr.
- chicken eggs - 5 pcs.
- rice - 1/2 cup
- fresh cucumber - 1 - 2 pcs.
- salt, pepper - to taste
- mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. l.
- How beautiful boiled country eggs, which have a real yellow yolk, look in a salad! Boil the eggs for the salad and cool under cold water. Then cut the eggs into small cubes.
- Boil the rice in salted water until tender, drain the water, and let the rice cool.
- Cut crab sticks into cubes. Here's what you like. I saw different ways of cutting ingredients into a salad - both small and large pieces. I prefer to cut it smaller.
- Cut fresh cucumber into small cubes.
- Place crab sticks, eggs, boiled rice, and cucumber in a salad bowl. Add a can of canned corn.
- For freshness, you can add a couple of green onions and dill.
- Season the salad a little and add ground black pepper. Season the salad with mayonnaise.
Delicious salad with crab sticks, rice, corn and pickled cucumber - recipe with photo
This salad can decorate a holiday table, and we will diversify it by adding pickled cucumbers in addition to fresh cucumbers. It turns out very tasty and spicy. And the beauty of this salad, and of course the aroma, will be given by red bell pepper.
We will need:
- crab sticks - 250 gr.
- rice - 1/2 cup
- canned corn - 1 can
- fresh cucumber - 1 - 2 pcs.
- pickled cucumber - 1-2 pcs.
- bell pepper - 1 pc.
- green onions - a few feathers
- salt, pepper - to taste
- mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. l.
1. Chop the crab sticks finely and place in a salad bowl.
2. Boil the rice in salted water until tender and cool. Add rice to crab sticks.
3. Bell pepper not only adds brightness to this salad, but also juiciness. Cut it into small cubes.
4. Next, finely chopped fresh and pickled cucumbers go into the salad bowl.
5. Place canned corn in salad and add chopped green onions. Look what colors you get in this dish!
7. Salad with crab sticks, salt, pepper and season with mayonnaise.
8. I really like decorating salads using a special mold. For guests, this salad can be served on portioned plates; it turns out very beautifully.
Delicious crab salad with corn and pickled cucumber - video
It turns out that by slightly modifying the recipe, you can get a completely different tasting salad. In this recipe, in addition to pickled cucumber, cheese is also used, which is unusual for such a salad.
Salad “Tenderness” with crab sticks in layers - a delicious recipe for the holiday table
Nothing extra in this salad. Cheese is probably needed here to give this amazing salad tenderness. So let’s call the salad “Tenderness”. It's very easy to prepare.
We will need:
- crab sticks - 200 gr.
- canned corn - 1/2 can
- fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs.
- boiled eggs - 3 pcs.
- hard cheese - 150 gr.
- salt, pepper - to taste
- mayonnaise
- Cut all the ingredients for this salad into small cubes. Of course, we boil the eggs first.
2. We will place the salad on a flat plate in layers. Place the first layer of fresh cucumber. We make a mesh of mayonnaise on top or just grease this layer a little.
3. The next layer is crab sticks and again we make a mayonnaise mesh.
4. Grate the boiled eggs on a coarse grater, place on a plate and add a little salt. Grease a little with mayonnaise again.
5. Grate the cheese in the next layer, and place the corn tightly on top.
6. Decorate the top of the salad with a mayonnaise mesh. You can insert a decoration of greenery or cucumber into the middle.
Salad with crab sticks, corn, cucumber and cabbage
In this collection, I introduced you to a simple and delicious crab salad with corn and cucumber. We were convinced that different recipes yield completely different tastes. And this salad is prepared very quickly and simply, it is like no other suitable for unexpected friends.
The main thing is to have crab sticks in stock, and you can choose any other ingredients for them. Look for what other salads with crab sticks you can prepare in the following articles.
Sometimes it happens that if you make even small changes to a traditional, long-familiar and familiar salad, you get a very interesting taste effect. Try, for example, replacing one ingredient in a crab stick salad - instead of fresh cucumbers, use pickled cucumbers - and you will see that a new taste can be achieved with the most minimal means.
Ingredients:
- Crab sticks, fresh or frozen - 200 grams,
- Eggs 5 pieces,
- Canned corn 300 grams,
- Pickled cucumbers 200 grams (2 pieces),
- Salt to taste
- Ground pepper to taste
- Mayonnaise - 2-3 tablespoons
Cooking method
Hard-boil the eggs and cool them with cold water - this will make them easier to peel. Remove the shell from them. Remove the yolk from two eggs and set aside - you will need it for decoration. Chop everything else finely enough.
Add canned corn.
Cut the pickled cucumbers into small pieces.
If you have frozen crab sticks, you need to remove them from the refrigerator in advance so that they thaw. Remove them from the packages, set one aside for decoration, and cut the rest into smaller pieces. Sprinkle with ground pepper, salt, add mayonnaise.
Stir.
Place the finished salad in portions on plates. If you want it to look like mine, use a medium-sized serving ring.
Grate the yolk and sprinkle it on top of the salad. Cut the reserved crab stick diagonally and decorate the top and sides of the salad.
It turned out to be a very unusual holiday treat.
Bon appetit!
