Every housewife wants to surprise her guests by preparing something original and tasty for them. But today's variety of holiday snack recipes is just crazy. What kind of ingredients are not used in the most bizarre combinations, forms and methods of processing. It seems that it is already impossible to come up with anything new and outstanding.
Secret appetizer
However, the next time, preparing for the next family celebration, try to get just one extra package of crab sticks to discover an appetizer amazing in its simplicity and taste from this product familiar from childhood - crab sticks in dough. Their soft and delicate texture, combined with an intriguing “wrapper” of fried crispy pastry, will not leave indifferent at your holiday table.
Let's consider several options and ways of serving such an unusual dish.
Crab sticks in pastry
Ingredients:
- 1 pack of crab sticks;
- 2 eggs;
- half a lemon;
- 60 g flour
- half pickled cucumber;
- 1/3 cup of milk;
- spices to taste.
Thawed and peeled crab sticks marinate in a mixture of lemon juice and vegetable oil. Add pepper, salt to taste. We place for 20 minutes in the refrigerator. At this time, prepare the dough. Separate squirrels and yolks. We breed flour in warm milk and add the yolk, mashed with salt. We put the resulting mass in a warm place for 10-15 minutes.
We bring the proteins to solid peaks and immediately before frying we combine them with the prepared base. Put each crab stick in the dough. Then fry in hot oil until golden brown.
To evenly distribute the batter, you can re-dip the stick with a damp surface after frying the first side. An express snack for your gala menu is ready. This dish is perfect pickles. Serve, garnished with lemon slices and herbs.
Cheese Crab Sticks
To diversify this already delicious snack, your favorite filling added to the classic recipe will help. The most successful variant is a dish with a piquant cheese flavor.
For him, you need to take:
- 250-300 g of crab sticks;
- 1 egg
- 50 g of hard cheese;
- 60 g of flour;
- salt to taste;
- breading mixture;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking:
Mix the eggs with flour until a homogeneous mass without lumps is formed. If necessary, it can be passed through a sieve. Grate the cheese and pour it directly into the dough. All ingredients are mixed well several times. We put prepared crab sticks into the resulting batter. After that, roll them in a breading mixture and send them to a well-heated pan with sunflower oil. Fry each item until a golden crust appears. Crab sticks with cheese in the dough are ready.
In this embodiment, the dish goes well with sour cream sauce or regular mayonnaise. Decorate your holiday table with this original snack. And be sure that your guests and households will appreciate it, not even realizing how simple and quick the crab sticks recipe is in the test.