It is known that many families come up with their own modifications of known recipes, replacing products or adding ingredients. For example, you can recall a salad with corn and crab sticks, the recipe for this dish can be varied, it seems, almost to infinity, adding those or other ingredients. Traditionally, the salad includes crab sticks, corn, eggs, but cucumber, onions, rice and many other things are added at will.
Classics are always in fashion
But let's start with the traditional version: tell you how to prepare a salad with crab sticks and corn classic. In this recipe, the ingredients are minimal, it is light enough, and therefore enjoys such popularity.
Ingredients:
- egg - 4 pieces;
- mayonnaise "Olive" - 1 package (130-150 g);
- canned corn - 1 jar;
- sticks of crab or crab meat - 350-400 g;
- salt - 1 pinch;
- freshly ground pepper fragrant and black - 1 pinch.
Preparation
Eggs can be boiled in advance - if they are moved to cold water after cooking and wait about half an hour, it will be much easier to clean the shell. The well-known product - crab sticks should be removed from the package and thawed. When choosing a product, pay attention to the fact that the layers should be tightly folded and fit without gaps, and the red-orange color should not be too bright. Peeled sticks and eggs cut into cubes of the same size, pour into a salad bowl. Open the jar with corn and drain the liquid. However, if you want your dish to get better, you can pour a couple of spoons of this brine. Salt, pepper, season the salad with mayonnaise, mix and wait for a while (not longer than a couple of hours). Salad is tastier when lightly infused.
Light salad
A very pleasant, easy and useful dish will appeal to those who control the weight and try not to overload the body with high-calorie food - a salad that includes cabbage, corn, crab sticks and a lot of greens. And, mind you, no mayonnaise.
Ingredients:
- Peking cabbage - 200 g;
- frozen corn - 1 glass;
- crab meat - 2 packs;
- petiolate celery - 1 stem;
- parsley, cilantro, basil - 1 bunch;
- salt - 1 pinch;
- lemon juice - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil - 30 ml.
Preparation
We put the corn into boiling water and wait about 5 minutes, then we throw it back on the sieve and allow it to cool. Celery and cut into small pieces, Pekinese cabbage shredded thin straw, short, convenient for eating. Finely cut the washed greens, but the crab meat is cut quite large. We connect everything in a salad bowl, pour a mixture of olive oil and lemon juice. Mix and serve. You can add cherry tomatoes, chopped Bulgarian peppers, quail eggs if desired.
Sour is a salad of beans , crab sticks and corn. You can use cooked at home beans, and you can take canned - depends on the imagination.