The answer to the question of who came up with a salad with crab sticks and shrimp has been lost for centuries. Most likely, this exquisite recipe was invented in Japan, where there is a real cult of seafood. However, originally one of its ingredients was crab meat. Now it is surimi fish, the main component of the chopsticks. Naturally, the dish of crab and shrimp cannot be called budgetary or even democratic. Therefore, refined seafood began to be replaced with something simpler - for example, surimi. When the fame of the dish crossed the borders of the Land of the Rising Sun, various ingredients that are rarely used in Japan began to be added to the salad. This is corn, green canned peas, cabbage. Thus, the so-called “Classic salad with crab sticks and shrimp” appeared, which we will prepare now.
This is a very simple dish. The quantitative composition of the components depends on your taste preferences. Cut the sticks and eggs themselves (well-boiled hard boiled), add peeled shrimp, canned corn and peas to them, season with mayonnaise, salt and spices. Shuffle - and you're done! Other products can be attached to these basic components. The main thing is that they are combined with the taste of surimi. Salad with crab sticks and shrimp can be prepared in a glass dish in a “layered” format. To do this, carefully lay out seafood and vegetables layer by layer, and decorate the top of the dish with mayonnaise net and grated egg yolks.
To make a
light, low-calorie dinner out of
salad , it makes sense to turn to the original recipe, originally from Japan. Boil a glass of rice, let it cool, letting the liquid drain. Instead of shrimp, we will use squid (300 grams). We cook them for no more than five minutes, then cool and finely chop. We also grind two hundred grams of crab sticks. Then we mix in the dishes the above ingredients with a can of canned corn and seaweed (gram 100-150). Season to taste with salt and pepper, as well as a glass of mayonnaise. Gourmet salad with calamari and crab sticks is ready.
For the summer option, try to refresh the dish with vegetables. In addition to 200 g of shrimp and seven crab sticks, we use 15-20 pieces of cherry tomatoes, two stalks of green onion, half of bell pepper and lettuce. For calories in a salad with shrimp and crab sticks, it would be nice to cut 50 g of hard yellow cheese. You can fill the dish with mayonnaise or olive oil, and lovers of piquancy can add a spoonful of soy sauce.
Well, in winter you can cook an unusually tasty dish with the addition of smoked capelin caviar. It is sold in stores, it is not difficult to get it. As a festive New Year's treat, such a salad with crab sticks and shrimp can also be made puff. To do this, boiled potatoes (two medium tubers cut in circles) are laid in layers at the bottom of a beautiful crystal dish. In a separate bowl, dressing is prepared from mayonnaise, capelin caviar and lemon juice. She generously greased a layer of potatoes. Next, a package of chopped crab sticks and one chopped onion is laid on it. Again, everything is lubricated with dressing. Then three boiled eggs rub into the dish. Three hundred grams of shrimp are boiled, peeled and laid on top. If they are small, then it is possible and the whole, if not - you need to cut. The topmost layer should be cheese (100 g), which is rubbed on a coarse grater.