Most housewives know only the classic recipe for crab salad. In fact, there are more interesting variations of it. For example, with shrimp, mushrooms, crackers and other additional ingredients.

Classic Crab Salad with Corn

Ingredients: a full glass of boiled white long-grain rice, 4 chicken eggs cooked to a frozen yolk, rock salt to taste, a standard can of corn in the form of canned food, 240 g of quality crab sticks, low-fat mayonnaise.

  1. To prepare a classic crab salad, you will need to grind all the ingredients indicated in the recipe.
  2. First, rice cooked in salt water is poured into the salad bowl. Then, chopped middle pieces are added to it with slices of sticks.
  3. Eggs are chopped into a small cube, after which they are mixed with other ingredients.

It remains to pour corn kernels into the snack without brine and season the dish with salted mayonnaise.

With rice and fresh cucumbers

Ingredients: 2 medium cucumbers (fresh), 220 g of thawed crab sticks, a jar of canned sweet corn, a full glass of cooked white rice, a bunch of green onions, 4 eggs pre-cooked to a hardened yolk, table salt, low-fat mayonnaise.

  1. It is very important to cook the cereal immediately in salted water and crumbly. Then the snack will turn out to be especially tasty in the end. Rice in the form of sticky porridge can completely ruin the treat.
  2. Fresh cucumbers are peeled of hard skin and cut into a small cube. Boiled eggs are likewise crushed.
  3. Crab sticks are chopped quite large.
  4. Corn is laid out on a colander so that excess liquid is removed from it.
  5. Greens finely chopped with a sharp knife.

In order to cook such a salad with crab sticks and corn to the end, it remains to pour it with salted sauce, and also to taste to decorate with fresh or pickled vegetables.

From crab sticks with apples

Ingredients: 2/3 cup of pre-cooked rice, 130 g of thawed crab sticks, 2 eggs pre-cooked to hardened yolk, a whole sweet and sour apple, half a purple onion, 120 g canned red beans, sauce to taste, rock salt.

  1. Ready cooled rice is immediately poured into a salad bowl.
  2. Canned beans are distributed on top. For the dish in question, both red and white are suitable. Before adding to the bowl, the beans are tilted into a colander so that excess liquid drains from it.
  3. Onions and boiled cooled eggs are chopped into a small cube. According to the same scheme, the fruit is freed, free from the skin and the seed box.
  4. Sticks are cut in medium or large pieces.

Prepared ingredients from steps 3 and 4 are added to the bowl, after which they are salted and seasoned with the selected sauce. Instead of the usual mayonnaise, you can take sour cream with garlic and any other options you like.

With fresh cabbage

Ingredients: 120 g juicy quality crab sticks, a full jar of canned corn grains, cucumber (fresh), a bunch of dill (fresh), 220 g cabbage, 3-4 tbsp. tablespoons light mayonnaise, salt.

  1. First chopped sticks are sent to the bowl. Middle cucumbers of fresh cucumber immediately go there too. If desired, hard dark skin can also be cut from it.
  2. Cabbage is very finely chopped with a sharp knife. To soften the vegetable, you should thoroughly mash it with your hands.
  3. Dill is well washed, gets rid of excess moisture and finely chopped.
  4. All components from the previous steps are connected in a capacious container. Corn spills without liquid to them.

The appetizer is salted and generously greased with sauce.

With crab meat and mushrooms

Components: 230 g of frozen champignons, 2 chicken eggs pre-cooked to a frozen yolk, 300 g of crab meat, a small head of onion, salt, sauce.

  1. First, cooked and cooled eggs are very finely cut. If desired, you can simply grind them with a grater with medium divisions.
  2. Champignons are cut into thin slices and fried in any fat with onion cubes. If desired, you can experiment with pickled mushrooms. In this case, they are simply added to the snack without brine.
  3. Crab meat is cut large enough to be clearly felt in the finished snack.
  4. All ingredients are mixed, seasoned with any preferred sauce (you can take regular mayonnaise), salted and tamped tightly in a beautiful salad bowl. You can use the serving ring to form a snack.

Ready salad with crab meat is decorated with fresh herbs and / or canned green peas.

With squid and shrimp

Ingredients: 220 g of quality chilled crab sticks, 2 medium squid carcasses, 430 g of small peeled shrimp, 70 g of red caviar, 4 chicken eggs pre-cooked to a frozen yolk, 60 g each of light mayonnaise and sour cream of medium fat content.

  1. Chilled eggs are cut into thin sticks. Crab sticks are also cut.
  2. Then you can do seafood. First, the shrimp are sent to salted boiling water for 4 minutes. If they are already pre-cooked and frozen in this form, then it is enough for 2-3 minutes to fill the product with freshly boiled water. Shrimps are reclined in a colander, and then sent to a salad bowl with eggs.
  3. Squid carcasses get rid of films and all that is superfluous. Then they are cut into small rings. Prepared seafood is placed in one cup, and ice water is poured into another. Squids are poured with boiling water for 40 seconds, after which they are immediately transferred to a cold liquid with a slotted spoon.The rings also go to other ground ingredients.
  4. Prepared foods are seasoned with sour cream and mayonnaise sauce. They are salted to taste.

From above the food is sprinkled with red caviar. Such a salad with crab chips can be served very effectively. Wide round snacks are selected, on which small portions of snacks are laid out. This is a great option for a festive table.

Crab salad with crackers

Product composition: 180 g of thawed crab sticks, 3 eggs pre-cooked to a frozen yolk, 230 g of sweet corn in the form of canned food, 4 tbsp. tablespoons of fat mayonnaise, rock salt 90 g of white crackers.

  1. At the very beginning, crab sticks are cut into large or medium pieces.
  2. Crackers are best used small wheat with the taste of caviar or any seafood. They also get enough sleep in a salad bowl to crab sticks.
  3. Corn without brine is added to the bowl.
  4. The eggs cool, get rid of the shell, and then randomly cut. It is best to cut them into small cubes.
  5. All pre-prepared foods are mixed in a roomy salad bowl. They taste salted and seasoned with fatty mayonnaise.

You will be able to effectively serve a snack in portions in beautiful miniature bowls. Garnished with the remaining crackers, as well as chopped herbs. Tomato cherry tomatoes go well with the taste of such a salad. Their halves can also be spread on top of the salad.

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