Crab sticks are a dish that can be served in a wide variety of ways. Chopsticks can be thawed, chopped and served immediately. So they will be a great snack. They can be cut, mixed with other ingredients and get a tasty and satisfying salad. But there is another way to cook crab sticks - this is stuffing.
Filling the sticks is quite easy, and this dish will not hit the budget hard. The filling is formed from your favorite ingredients. It can be eggs, vegetables, meat, cheese products and so on. The easiest option for a delicious snack is crab sticks stuffed with cheese and garlic. Cheese will add spice to the dish, and garlic - pungency.
Preparing an appetizer of crab sticks, cheese and other ingredients very quickly. The dish will be a real salvation for those whom guests suddenly rushed to. And you can cook a snack based on the recipes below.
Crab sticks stuffed with cheese and garlic
Product List:
- Cheese - two hundred and fifty grams.
- Crab sticks - five hundred grams.
- Eggs - six pieces.
- Garlic - two cloves.
- Mayonnaise.
Cooking
The first thing to do is to remove the crab sticks from the refrigerator and leave them to defrost. During this time, prepare the filling. Place eggs in cold water and put on fire. When the water boils, cook for one minute over high heat, then reduce the heat and cook for another eight to nine minutes. Then cool them and remove the shell. Peel the eggs and separate the whites from the yolks. Grate separately in different dishes. Cheese also pass through a grater.
In a bowl, combine the prepared components of the filling - cheese, protein, garlic and mayonnaise - and stir. Now you need to slowly and carefully deploy all the crab sticks so as not to damage them. On each of the sticks with a thin layer, put the filling and roll into tubes. Then put mayonnaise on sticks and sprinkle with grated yolks. Crab sticks stuffed with cheese and garlic are ready. It remains only to put them beautifully on the table. Put lettuce leaves on a large dish and put crab sticks on top in combination with any vegetables of your choice.
Crab sticks stuffed with cream cheese, herbs and garlic
If some time ago such a dish as stuffed crab sticks was exotic, now there are a large number of recipes with crab sticks. In addition to the traditional salad, you can cook many interesting and completely different tastes from them. Consider one of these recipes for crab sticks stuffed with cheese and garlic, and processed cheese.
Ingredients:
- Eggs - three pieces.
- Cream cheese "Friendship" - three hundred and fifty grams.
- Crab sticks - four hundred grams.
- Cheese - one hundred and fifty grams.
- Garlic - five cloves.
- Mayonnaise.
Cooking snacks
If the sticks were just taken out of the freezer, they need to be put in a warm place until they are fully thawed. In the event that there is a need, this process can be accelerated by filling crab sticks with cold water. While there is a defrost, you need to prepare the filling.
Hard-boiled eggs. They should boil no more than nine minutes, otherwise the eggs will lose their taste. Dip them in cold water, let them cool completely and remove the shell from them. Prepare roomy dishes in which, in turn, place hard cheese, eggs, garlic and Druzhba cheese grated on a fine grater . Pour mayonnaise and gently mix all the ingredients.
Next, carefully so as not to damage the crab sticks, unfold them and lay out the cooked filling in an even layer, and wrap them. Crab sticks stuffed with cheese and garlic, with the addition of cream cheese, are ready. The appetizer is spicy, with a slightly spicy taste. Serve nicely with vegetables and herbs and serve.
Stuffed Crab Sticks with Herbs and Onions
Required Products:
- Hard cheese - five hundred grams.
- Cream cheese - one hundred grams.
- Green onions - a bunch.
- Garlic - five cloves.
- Fresh dill - a bunch.
- Crab sticks - twenty pieces.
- Mayonnaise - three hundred grams.
- Eggs - three pieces.
Cooking a dish
Crab sticks are sold in two types: chilled and frozen. If a chilled product was purchased for preparing snacks, then you can immediately start cooking. Otherwise, the sticks must be thawed, and only then can they be deployed, and then filled with the filling.
To prepare the filling, grate the Druzhba processed cheese, hard cheese, garlic, finely chopped dill and onions in a bowl through a grater in turn and add one hundred and fifty grams of mayonnaise. All components are mixed together. Separate hard boiled three eggs. Allow to cool, remove the shell and pass through the grater. On carefully unwrapped crab sticks with a thin layer, apply the cooked filling and roll back into the tubes.
Place the first layer of stuffed tubes in a dish, grease with the remaining mayonnaise and sprinkle with grated eggs. Repeat the process with all the sticks. Decorate the last layer with greens. An appetizer of stuffed crab sticks is ready. If desired, it can be refrigerated and served chilled.
Stuffed Crab Sticks with Chicken, Cheese and Eggs
You can diversify the table not only with light snacks from stuffed crab sticks. If you add meat to the filling, you will get not only a tasty and original dish, but also quite nutritious and satisfying. Preparing this appetizer is quite simple. What does it take to make this recipe with crab sticks?
Required Products:
- Crab sticks - a pound.
- Boiled chicken meat - three hundred grams.
- Eggs - three pieces.
- Cheese - two hundred and fifty grams.
- Garlic - two cloves.
- Mayonnaise.
- Salt.
Getting down to cooking
Before you start preparing the filling, you need to prepare crab sticks. There are several options for defrosting them faster. The sticks can be placed in the microwave for five minutes, after removing the film from them and folding them into a glass dish. You can soak in cold water, as well as steam over it.
If time is not limited, then you can simply lay them out on a table and let them gradually unfreeze. Cooking the filling. Pre-cooked chicken meat into small pieces. Hard-boiled eggs, cool, peel and pass through a grater. Grate cheese on a coarse grater.
Put all the ingredients in the bowl, add garlic, mayonnaise, salt and stir. The filling is ready. There is only one answer to the question of how to deploy crab sticks. Caution, slowly, so as not to tear or damage. On the expanded sticks evenly, not a thick layer, place the prepared filling. Roll into rolls and put on a cooked dish. Garnish with vegetables and sprinkle with herbs. Such a dish will be a table decoration.
Crab sticks stuffed with mushrooms, cheese, eggs and shrimp.
There are a large number of recipes for stuffing crab sticks. From simple, consisting of one or two ingredients, to complex, which include three to four or more components. The composition of the filling depends on your imagination and taste preferences. Crab sticks stuffed with mushrooms, cheese and shrimp filling are spicy, tasty and nutritious.
Required Products:
- Crab sticks - one kilogram.
- Cheese - three hundred grams.
- Mushrooms - three hundred grams.
- Shrimp - three hundred grams.
- Onion - two heads.
- Eggs - four pieces.
- Mayonnaise.
- Greens.
- Salt.
- Pepper.
Cooking Stuffed Crab Sticks
Put the frozen crab sticks in a warm place and proceed with the preparation of the filling. Rinse the champignons well and cut into small pieces. Put mushrooms in a preheated and greased pan and fry, stirring constantly until cooked. Pour the eggs with cold water, bring to a boil and cook for eight minutes. Cool, remove the shell and grate. Separate the onion from the husk, rinse, chop into small cubes and stew in sunflower oil until slightly golden.
Shrimp put in boiling water, boil for a couple of minutes and drain the water. After cooling, divide them into small parts. Rub the cheese through a grater. Rinse the parsley and chop finely. Place all the ingredients prepared for the filling in a bowl, add mayonnaise, salt and pepper. Mix gently. Thawed crab sticks slowly unwrap and apply a filling of cheese, shrimp, mushrooms and eggs to them with a thin, even layer. Give them the shape of rolls and put on a beautiful dish, garnished with vegetables and sprinkled with herbs. In addition to originality, this dish has a piquant taste. Also, such an appetizer will quickly satisfy your hunger.