An ingredient such as crab sticks is widely used in cooking. One of the main dishes with them is crab salad. Accessible ingredients and easy cooking are what won over many.
However, not only salads can be prepared from crab sticks. They can be used to create delicious and original snacks that will decorate any celebration. For example, rolls, tartlets and canapes can be prepared from them. They can also be fried in batter or with mushrooms. All these dishes are prepared very simply and quickly. The main thing is to choose fresh ingredients.
Tuna crab sticks rolls
Required Products:
- Canned tuna - 300 grams.
- Parsley - 3 branches.
- Mayonnaise - 120-150 grams.
- Crab sticks - 400 grams.
- Dill - 3 branches.
- Eggs - 4 pieces.
Cooking rolls
Quite often the question arises, what to cook from crab sticks, except for salad. The answer will be numerous recipes that include this product. Delicious roll, tartlets, meatballs - all this can be prepared from crab sticks. In addition, because of their taste, they are perfectly combined with many products, which, in turn, allows you to invent new dishes. Also very tasty are fried sticks in batter. As you can see, there are many options for what to cook from crab sticks, except for salad. It remains only to choose your favorite dish.
Another advantage of this product is that it can be taken out of the freezer at any time and used. One of the cooking options may be rolls of crab sticks with filling. In this case, it is canned tuna. Before use, they must be placed in a warm room, cutting the packaging. While the defrosting process is going on, you need to boil hard-boiled eggs. To do this, dip them in cold water and let them boil for eight to nine minutes after boiling. Then cool, clean and rub them through a grater.
Next, rinse dill and parsley, finely chop. After this, canned tuna fillet is put in a deep plate and knead thoroughly. Add grated eggs, mayonnaise and herbs to it. Stir the connected components until smooth.
Now consider how to cook stuffed crab sticks. After defrosting, carefully unfold each product and apply prepared meat to the surface. Then carefully roll back into the tubes. It turns out a delicious and original snack - rolls of crab sticks with filling. For convenience, each of them should be cut obliquely into two parts.
Tartlets with champignons and crab sticks
Ingredients for cooking:
- Oil - 160 milliliters.
- Cottage cheese - 400 grams.
- Flour - 4 cups.
- Salt - a few pinches.
- Eggs - 2 pieces.
- Champignons - 100 grams.
- Bell pepper - 2 fruits.
- Crab sticks - 400 grams.
- Hard cheese - 120 grams.
- Onion - 1 head.
Cooking tartlets
What else to cook from crab sticks other than salad? You can make a tasty appetizer in the form of tartlets. A beautifully decorated dish will help to decorate any table. Tartlets with mushrooms and crab sticks is an appetizer that can diversify not only the everyday menu, but also the festive one. The filling can be the most varied. Tartlets can be stuffed with meat, vegetables, mushrooms, seafood and other preferred ingredients. Thanks to such recipes, it can be seen that you can cook many different dishes from crab sticks, in addition to salad.
The first, of course, is to cook the tartlets themselves. Why rub the cottage cheese through a sieve and add wheat flour, salt, eggs and 140 milliliters of oil to it in turn. Knead a rather thick dough from the connected components. Then roll out a layer from it with a rolling pin and cut out circles with a mold or other suitable size object. Then lay them in greased molds and not press down the bottom, as well as the edges. Lay out the dough on a baking sheet and send it for baking in the oven. Twenty minutes at a hundred and eighty degrees will be enough.

While baking tartlets, you need to do the filling. Peel, rinse and finely chop the mushrooms, onions and bell peppers. Heat the pan with the remaining oil over medium heat and fry the chopped ingredients on it until they are ready. Separately cut into small cubes fully thawed crab sticks. Then finely chop the cheese with a grater. Mix all the components of the filling, salt, add a little salt and white pepper, and then mix well. Fill the baked and cooled tartlets with the finished filling and place them in the microwave until the cheese melts. If desired, they can be sprinkled with sesame seeds, which will need about 1.5 tablespoons.
Crab stick canapes
Product Composition:
- Fresh cucumbers - 2 pieces.
- Crab sticks - 250 grams.
- Hard cheese - 230 grams.
- Olives (preferably pitted) - 20 pieces.
Cooking process
Existing canapΓ© recipes in their variety can satisfy even the most sophisticated gourmets. Serving cooked mini skewer sandwiches made this appetizer incredibly popular. But you need to consider that you need to use only high-quality products for canapes. Tiny sandwiches will be appropriate on any table, without exception. They can consist of ham, seafood, fruits, cheese, meat and many other ingredients. It all depends on taste and imagination. One option is canapes with crab sticks on skewers.
To use for the preparation of such a snack you need the simple ingredients indicated in the recipe. First, cut the cheese (gouda, brie or cheddar) into small cubes, about 1.5 centimeters, on a cutting board. If these varieties could not be purchased, other hard cheeses can also be used. Next, remove the packaging film from the thawed crab sticks and cut each diagonally into 1.5β2 centimeter pieces.
Then, thoroughly wash fresh, non-sluggish cucumbers and trim the ends on both sides. Cut them lengthwise into two halves, and then chop them into half rings, about one centimeter thick. When all the ingredients for making tiny sandwiches are prepared, you can start assembling the canapes. The first to string olives on skewers, from which the bones must be extracted. Then, in any order, add the remaining components. Put prepared canapes with crab sticks on a large flat plate in one layer and serve the appetizer on the buffet table.
Fried crab sticks with oyster mushrooms
List of ingredients:
- Oyster mushrooms - 500 grams.
- Onion - 4 medium-sized fruits.
- Crab sticks - 400 grams.
- Carrots - 2 pieces.
- Olive oil - 4 tablespoons.
Recipe
To cook fried crab sticks with mushrooms, you must initially wash well and cook the carrots until tender. First you need to remove the film from the sticks for faster defrosting. Rinse mushrooms, dry and cut into plates. Place them in a pan and fry with two tablespoons of olive oil until the water evaporates. Peel and chop the purple onion finely in half rings. Then extinguish it with the remaining oil until golden brown.
After the carrots are boiled, it needs to be peeled and rubbed coarsely. All fried, stewed and boiled foods should be allowed to cool. Then combine them together in a bowl, salt a little, drizzle with olive oil and mix gently. For a beautiful presentation, you need to take a flat white plate and lay on it several sheets of salad. Then place a special mold on top and fill it with cooked ingredients. Tamp and carefully remove the form. You can also simply lay out a mass of fried crab sticks with mushrooms in any dish and serve a tasty and satisfying meal for dinner.
Fried crab sticks
The list of ingredients:
- White flour - 200 grams.
- Crab sticks - 350 grams.
- Mayonnaise - 120-140 grams.
- Oil - 60 milliliters.
- Eggs - 4 pieces.
- Salt - 1/3 teaspoon.
- Ground pepper - a few pinches.
Recipe
Most often, many housewives use crab sticks as one of the components of various salads. But from this product you can cook quite a few tasty and original dishes, one of which is fried crab sticks in batter. If holiday gatherings are planned, then you can surprise your friends with this dish. It is prepared quite simply, and it turns out very tasty. Next, we will examine in more detail how to fry crab sticks in batter.
First, of course, you need to cook batter. You need to pick up a convenient bowl and drive eggs into it. Add the wheat flour and the right amount of mayonnaise. Then come the spices. You can also add your favorite seasonings to your taste and desire. Beat lightly with a regular dining fork. By consistency, the batter should resemble sour cream. Then heat the oil in a pan. Then dip the crab sticks, freed from the film, into the batter and lay them out for frying in a pan.

During the whole process, you canβt go far from the stove, the sticks are prepared very quickly. When they are fried on one side for two to three minutes until golden brown, you need to immediately turn them over to the other. After that, put the crab sticks on a paper towel, and then transfer to a plate. Serve them both hot and completely cooled. In addition, you can offer to sticks a sauce of lemon juice, sour cream, dill and garlic. Or from mustard, mayonnaise and fat sour cream. Taking note of this recipe, you can always cook this delicious dish periodically.
Easy-to-cook chopstick dishes have an unusual and vibrant taste that will not leave anyone indifferent.
Now this ingredient can be used not only as one of the components for salads. Crab sticks can become part of a wide variety of dishes.