According to experts, this dish can be called a real storehouse of nutrients. With its bright design and unusually pleasant taste, a salad of crabs and tomatoes is able to please the most sophisticated participants of any holiday feast.
Crab meat, one of the main ingredients of the delicacy, is not always available to a wide circle of its admirers - for both financial and territorial reasons. Much more affordable are crab sticks made from the flesh of fish. Possessing a fish aroma and taste, the product is quite widespread in cooking. Many housewives, having decided to make a salad of crab and tomato, are often forced to replace scarce crab meat with popular and affordable crab sticks. The taste of the dish, of course, will differ from its counterpart, which uses natural crab meat. Nevertheless, the salad recipe with crab sticks and tomatoes quite adequately takes its place in the cookbook of any housewife. There are many options for preparing snacks. How to make a salad of crab and tomato? Read about it in our article.
About the principles of preparation
As a basis for salad, only fresh products are used, whether it is crab sticks or natural crab meat, which is usually sold in specialized stores in boiled-frozen form. Before preparing a salad, the product must be thawed. To do this, it can be immersed in boiling water for five minutes. Crab sticks do not defrost before cooking. It is enough to hold them only for a short time at room temperature to make it easier to cut.
Ingredients such as cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers (pickled or fresh), rice, eggs, corn (canned sweet), green peas, boiled carrots and potatoes, herbs, garlic, onions are usually added to a salad of crab and tomato. The dish is usually refilled with sour cream or mayonnaise. There are two varieties of salad preparation - mixed and layered.
About some tricks and secrets of cooking
Experienced housewives recommend:
- To improve the taste of salad, use not mayonnaise as a dressing, but yogurt (natural) or sour cream. It should be noted that the shelf life of the dish will be quite short - only about 12 hours in the refrigerator.
- If cooked-frozen crab meat is used to prepare the salad, after thawing the product should be kept in boiling water for about 5 minutes - to ensure its quality.
- Keep in mind that chopped tomatoes usually produce a lot of juice. It must be deleted. You can also put chopped tomatoes as a decoration on the surface of the salad. In the flaky version, it is recommended to place the tomato layer over the crab - so juices better impregnate the product.
- Tomatoes for salad should be selected ripe, but strong.
- Cheese can be used in various hardness, salting and taste - in accordance with the requirements of the recipe.
Natural crab salad with tomatoes and cheese
This dish uses real crab meat. If a cooked-frozen product is purchased, it should be completely thawed. Experienced cooks recommend a better boil of live crab. To do this, boil water, preliminarily adding cloves, salt, allspice, bay leaf and garlic. Next, crab is immersed in boiling water and kept for 15 minutes. The finished crab is cooled and cleaned.
Ingredients
For the preparation of crab salad with tomatoes and cheese use:
- 500 g of crab meat (freshly cooked or purchased in a store);
- 200 g of cheese (hard, type "Maasdam");
- cucumbers - 2 pcs., fresh, medium-sized;
- tomato (strong, large);
- a small can of peas (canned);
- mayonnaise;
- medium onion;
- salt.
How to cook?
Crab meat is cut into long narrow strips. Cucumbers are peeled and chopped with straws. Tomatoes are cut into long slices. Liquid is drained from peas. The onion is peeled, cut in half, after which each half is chopped along with thin slices and salted. Cheese is rubbed on a grater (coarse).
Then lettuce is collected: chopped tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, crab meat (most), half the cheese (grated) and peas are mixed. Season with mayonnaise, mix gently (it is necessary to ensure that the dish does not turn into porridge due to juice flowing from chopped tomatoes). The salad is laid out on a dish, decorated with strips of crab and cheese, kept for 15 minutes in the cold and served.
Snow crab salad (with tomatoes and cheese)
The name of this salad is associated with the type of crab that is used in its preparation. Snow crab has long been appreciated for its very tender, tasty, light meat. To create a salad, use a semi-finished product (boiled-frozen). Natural crab can be replaced with crab meat brand "Snow Crab". This salad is served to the table in a rather original way - in the form of balls, due to which it is usually prepared on holidays and used as one of the decorations of the feast.
What products are needed?
Use:
- 300 g of natural snow crab meat (or Snow Crab product);
- 2 eggs;
- hard cheese with a mild taste;
- 2 tomatoes;
- small fresh cucumber;
- peeled walnuts (if desired) - a handful;
- mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- garlic - 1 clove.
For decoration you need dill greens.
Cooking salad
Cheese and eggs are rubbed on a fine grater (you can immediately into the total capacity). Half of the tomato is cut, seeds are removed, juice is cut into a small cube. Cucumber is also ground. Add vegetables to eggs and cheese, squeeze garlic. Add dill greens (chopped), laying aside one twig to decorate the dish. Crab meat (half) is chopped very finely, added to the mixture. Then add mayonnaise and mix everything into a homogeneous mass.
Then proceed to decorate the dish. To do this, the remaining crab meat is cut in the form of chips or tinder on a grater (large), put in a separate plate.
Balls the size of a walnut are rolled up from the bulk, inside each of which they put 0.5 or of a nut. Roll in balls in crab chips, spread on a dish.
Then the remaining tomatoes are cut into slices or slices, spread them next to the crab balls, decorated with a sprig of dill. If desired, squeeze a drop of mayonnaise onto tomato slices.
Simple salad with tomatoes, cheese, garlic, crab sticks
We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the basic recipe of a dish containing a minimum of products and providing for the use of crab sticks instead of natural crab meat. If desired, the hostess can diversify and complement this dish. Meanwhile, a salad of crab sticks, tomatoes, cheese and garlic is very tasty and without any additions, and the dish is prepared quite simply and quickly. Use:
- 200 g (packaging) of crab meat or crab sticks;
- 200 g of cheese;
- medium-sized ripe tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- dill greens - if desired.
About the cooking method
Crab sticks (slightly thawed) are peeled, cut lengthwise into 3 parts, and then chopped into small cubes. Cheese is grated (medium). If you use a fine grater, the salad will turn out more tender, but less textured. Tomatoes are cut into small cubes. Experienced housewives recommend first removing excess juice and seeds from them.
Next, the products are laid out in a bowl. Garlic is squeezed on top (using a press). Mayonnaise is added, gently mixed. Sprinkle with dill on top.
Cooking puff crab salad with tomatoes
This salad with tomato, egg, crab sticks and cheese is interesting in that it is laid out in layers. This means that you can serve refreshments both in portioned bowls and in the form of a beautiful slide on a large dish.
As a part of ingredients
What foods does a salad consist of? Tomatoes, cheese, egg, crab sticks, garlic, cucumbers (pickled), onions - traditional ingredients are used, to which are added green peas, vinegar, sugar, black pepper and mayonnaise. The number of products required by the recipe:
- 200 g of crab sticks;
- tomatoes (medium, dense) - 2 pcs.;
- cucumbers (pickled, medium size) - 2 pcs.;
- green peas (canned) - 1 jar;
- a few tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- 150 g of hard cheese;
- bulb (purple, medium size);
- table vinegar - to taste;
- a pinch of sugar;
- ground black pepper - to taste.
Cooking
Crab sticks are cut into strips or cubes. Cucumbers (pickled) and tomatoes are ground in the same way. Onion is chopped into thin rings, sprinkled with sugar and poured with vinegar (previously diluted with water). Leave for 5-10 minutes, then the liquid is drained. In a bowl or dish spread tomatoes, gloves. Crab sticks are added from above, greased with mayonnaise. Next, lay a layer of green peas, followed by a layer of cucumbers. Once again generously greased with mayonnaise, again sprinkled with pepper. Cheese is rubbed on a grater (fine) and, not crushing, sprinkle salad on it. On top, treats are decorated with onion rings, allowed to infuse for half an hour and served at the table.
Crab salad with sweet pepper and tomatoes
To create 6 servings of salad, you will need the ingredients:
- 250 grams of crab sticks;
- 3 tomatoes;
- 1 sweet pepper;
- 200 grams of hard cheese;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- mayonnaise to taste.
The process of preparing crab salad with peppers and tomatoes will take about 15 minutes.
Tomatoes, crab sticks, pepper are cut into strips. Pass garlic through a press. Cheese grated. All mix, season with mayonnaise.
Salad with corn, crab sticks, tomatoes and cheese
A very large number of various methods are known for preparing crab salad with tomatoes and corn. We offer you to get acquainted with one of the options that is perfectly suited for a festive feast. Sometimes housewives use this recipe to prepare a salad for a family dinner. In this case, it is recommended to add a little rice to the dish - so it will turn out to be more satisfying and nutritious.
The ingredients of this salad can be supplemented or changed at will. Since tomatoes are used in the recipe, it is better to cook the dish at once. The cooking process will take very little time - about 35 minutes.
Product Composition
All ingredients can be easily found in any supermarket. To prepare 6 servings of salad use:
- 400 grams of crab sticks;
- 100 grams of canned corn;
- 5 eggs;
- 200 grams of hard cheese;
- 2 tomatoes;
- 10 grams of green onions;
- 10 grams of dill;
- two garlic cloves;
- 2 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
- two pinches of salt;
- two pinches of black pepper.
Recipe
Wash tomatoes and make an incision on them (cruciform shape). Then the tomatoes are immersed for 5-10 seconds. in boiling water, after it is cooled and skinned with a knife. Crab sticks are peeled and cut into small cubes, slices or strips. If desired, crab sticks can be grated (coarse). Tomatoes are peeled and cut into small slices, cubes or slices. Eggs are boiled in salt water for 8-10 minutes, after which they are dipped in cold water and allowed to cool completely. Then the eggs are cleaned and grated (coarse). Hard cheese is also triturated on a coarse grater. Wash greens, dry and finely chop.
Prepare a salad dressing. Garlic is peeled and core removed. Pass the garlic through a press and mix with mayonnaise. Ground black pepper and salt are added to the dressing to taste. The taste of the dressing should turn out to be salty, quite spicy, saturated.
At the end, put all the ingredients in a salad bowl and add salad dressing. All mix well and taste. If necessary, add black pepper salt, mayonnaise or garlic. Serve the salad to your liking. Serve refreshments in portions, salad bowls or bowls.