Crab salad: composition and recipe

What holiday can do without this tender and tasty salad? Crab salad, the composition of which, perhaps, has already changed several times, is still leading with the traditional olivier on any holiday table. This is an appetizer that is impossible to refuse. Changing the recipe implies a wide variety of such salads, because every housewife wants to bring something new to a traditional dish. However, ingredients such as lettuce, cucumbers, crab sticks or crab meat are the basis of this snack. Let us dwell in more detail on one of the options for this dish.

Crab Salad Composition

To prepare the salad, we need 400 g of crab sticks, mayonnaise, 2 eggs, 2-3 potatoes, one fresh cucumber, onion and canned peas, herbs and freshly ground white pepper to taste. Sometimes salted crackers are added to such a salad.

Recipe

Boil the potatoes, cool and chop finely. Defrost crab sticks , cut into slices. Boil eggs, peel and chop eggs. Chop the onion. The finer the onion, the less tangy the salad will have. If necessary, peel a fresh cucumber from its peel and cut into cubes the size of peas. In a salad bowl where the dish will be served, mix peas and cucumbers, eggs, onions and potatoes, add crab sticks. Salt the salad, season with freshly ground white pepper. Add fresh herbs to taste, mix and season with mayonnaise. Top can be decorated with crab chips. This is done just before serving, so that the chips do not get sour from mayonnaise. Serve chilled to the table. Enjoy your meal!

Recommendations and Tips

1. Crab sticks can be replaced with canned crab meat. Its purchase will cost a little cheaper, and the taste will remain unchanged.
2. A crab salad, the composition of which can be slightly changed, will be less high-calorie if the potatoes are replaced with boiled rice or not added at all.
3. Any greens are suitable for this dish, the arrows of green onions are combined very well with crab meat.
4. The taste of the salad depends on the cut: it is recommended to cut all the vegetables very finely, but crab sticks can be larger. Remember: crab salad, the composition of which will remain unchanged, and the method of cutting - will change, will be very different from the usual.
5. The dish is recommended not only to cool, but also to give it not
   
   insist a lot, the taste of this will only improve.
6. If desired, any hard cheese can also be added to the salad. Cheese can be cut into cubes, but it is recommended to grate it.
7. Salad can also be made puff, for this all layers should be smeared with mayonnaise.
8. You can serve the dish in a large salad bowl or in portions - for example, on the leaves of green lettuce, decorating each serving with halves of cherry tomatoes. You can experiment: put a large portion of this snack on a large dish in the shape of a heart and serve it on the table for Valentine's Day. Just do not forget to capture this moment: wine, a beautifully decorated table, candles and crab salad - the photo will be wonderful!