This dish is probably “on duty” for any festive meal in the entire post-Soviet space. Therefore, it may well be called nationwide and popular. Of course, today we will focus on a salad of crab sticks with corn and rice. It is prepared quite simply. The ingredients are available in any store under the sign "Products". And the cost also can not but rejoice. After all, it is only called "Crab". In fact, the sticks that are made from fish components are used as the main component.
Crab sticks salad with corn and rice: ingredients
Experienced home cooks, for sure, know the recipe, and not one, of this appetizer. There are several options, but we will choose the classics of the genre. So, we need:
- 250 grams (packaging) of crab sticks;
- a jar of sweet corn in canned food;
- half a glass of rice;
- 4 eggs;
- dressing mayonnaise;
- salt - according to personal taste;
- a mixture of peppers as a seasoning;
- fresh greens for decoration.
And you can start making a salad of crab sticks with corn and rice.
Simple cooking!
The practical part:
- Hard-boiled eggs - about 10 minutes in boiling water. Cool and peel. Cut into cubes (you can grate it coarsely) and place in a container for making salad from crab sticks with corn and rice.
- Thaw the crab product slightly and cut into large cubes. And you can, if you want, tear with long fibers for greater beauty.
- Boil rice in salted water until tender. It is better to take friable varieties that absorb liquid well. Long grain, by the way, according to experts, is poorly suited for this particular dish.
- We place the rice, which must first be slightly cooled, and the sticks in a bowl of eggs.
- We open canned corn. Strain out excess water - let it drain on a colander.
- Put the corn to the rest of the ingredients.
- All the components of the salad with crab sticks, corn, eggs, rice thoroughly, but gently mix. Salt and pepper according to individual preferences. Season with mayonnaise and mix again. It is necessary to achieve such a consistency of the dish, when it has already been saturated with sauce, but has not yet turned into a mushy state.
- Decorate with chopped fresh herbs. You can rub the cooked yolk or even hard cheese on top of the salad, laid out in a bowl. And you can decorate it with curly clippings of eggs or vegetables. Here, show your culinary imagination - who can.
- Now, it is imperative to let the food brew a little below the refrigerator. Well, that’s all - you can serve it to the table.
Salad: rice, crab sticks, corn, cucumber
This dish option is no less popular among the people. Fresh cucumber gives the salad a special aroma and taste. And it’s especially good to cook it in the season when cucumbers are quite inexpensive. But in the winter season, you can certainly treat yourself to a delicacy. Indeed, today fresh vegetables can be purchased in stores almost all year round. Just in the cold, they will cost an order of magnitude more expensive.
Ingredients
For cooking, we need:
- packing of "crabs" - 200-250 grams;
- 2 eggs;
- 100-150 grams of fresh cucumbers;
- half a glass of rice;
- a jar (200 grams) of sweet corn preserved in its own juice;
- onion (it is better to take red onions);
- mayonnaise;
- salt with peppers;
- fresh greens.
And you can proceed.
Cooking salad
A salad with crab sticks, corn and rice according to the recipe with the addition of cucumbers is prepared just as easily as its previous variation.
Instruction:
- Defrost crab sticks and cut into cubes. Fold in a large bowl.
- Boil the eggs, cut into cubes.
- Boil rice, cool.
- Drain the corn and pour it to the rest of the ingredients.
- Chop red onion finely.
- We mix everything in a bowl, adding fresh cucumbers cut into pieces (at the request of the cook, you can peel them).
- Salt, season with pepper or a mixture of peppers and season with Provencal mayonnaise.
- We lay out in portioned bowls, decorate with chopped greens and its branches and serve on the festive table.
Advice
Here are a few little tricks:
- As a substitute for a fresh vegetable, you can use a pickled analog. With pickles, the crab sticks salad option with corn and rice vaguely resembles Olivier with a crab flavor.
- By the way, you can do without rice. In many families, a dish is prepared without this ingredient. Then exclude the cereal, and keep all other components in proportion.
Cheese snack option
Such a salad can be prepared with hard cheese. For him we need:
- gram 300 sticks of crab;
- a jar of corn;
- a pair of fresh cucumbers;
- 3-4 eggs;
- 200 grams of hard cheese;
- salt with peppers;
- mayonnaise.
Boil the eggs and cut them into cubes. Grate the cheese coarsely. Cut cucumbers and sticks into cubes. We express the corn in a colander to make the glass water. All the above ingredients are placed in a container of suitable volume, salt, pepper, season with mayonnaise. You can decorate the salad with grated yolk, cheese, sprigs of greens. After - let him insist on the bottom of the refrigerator, but not in the freezer, and you can serve it to the table. Bon appetit to all!