Today, a salad with shrimp and crab sticks is considered the most popular dish. However, given the cost of some ingredients, it can not be attributed to the budget or everyday options. This salad is usually prepared on holidays or for some special occasions. You can do it in many ways. Everything will depend on which components the hostess wants to include in the dish.

Shrimp, crab sticks and tomato salad

According to experts, seafood goes well with juicy vegetables. That's why in a salad with shrimp and crab sticks go well, eg, fresh tomatoes. There may be many options.

The composition includes:

  • 150 grams of crab sticks;
  • 250 grams of frozen shrimp;
  • a tomato;
  • 1 pod of sweet pepper;
  • salt;
  • ½ head of red onion;
  • ground pepper;
  • mayonnaise.

To make a salad, you must:

  1. Thaw first, and then boil in salted water and cool the shrimp.
  2. Grind the crab component with a coarse grater. It will be much easier to do this if you first put them in the freezer for 15-20 minutes.
  3. Chopped onions finely chopped.
  4. Dice the tomatoes.
  5. Wash the pepper, carefully cut out the stalk from it, remove the seeds, and then chop the flesh into straws.
  6. Fold the prepared foods in a deep bowl, salt, lightly sprinkle with pepper and season with mayonnaise.

The salad is juicy and quite tasty. In addition, he looks very impressive on the table.

With squid

Some housewives are sure that the salad will become tastier if it simultaneously contains more different seafood.To make sure of this, you can try to make a salad, for example, with shrimp, squid and crab sticks. In the people it is better known as "Marine".

To prepare, you need the composition of the components:

  • 200 grams of crab sticks;
  • 250 grams of peeled shrimp;
  • ½ head of Beijing cabbage;
  • 400 grams of fresh squid;
  • mayonnaise.

To make this salad, you must:

  1. Boil the shrimp. To do this, they should be put in a pot of boiling water and held there for one and a half to two minutes, adding a little salt. Readiness can be determined by color. Fresh shrimp are usually gray, and after cooking they turn pink.
  2. Gently remove the film from the squid carcass. Dip the meat for 2.5-3 minutes in boiling water. Water must be salted. Then the boiled, slightly whitened carcass should be taken out with a slotted spoon, put on a colander and wait until all the moisture has drained.
  3. After that, grind all prepared seafood. Shrimp can be simply cut in half, and squid, chopsticks and cabbage can be cut into strips.
  4. Collect the ingredients in one dish, pour with mayonnaise and mix.

If seafood is cooked correctly and not overcooked, then the salad will certainly turn out to be tender and juicy.

How to cook with pineapple

AT shrimp and crab sticks salad can add Little pineapples. This original an exotic tandem can be a good option for an easy but wholesome dinner.

In this case, the set of products will be slightly different:

  • 200 grams of frozen crab sticks;
  • 100 grams of canned pineapple;
  • 150 grams of boiled shrimp (peeled);
  • 2 boiled eggs;
  • 70 grams of cheese (hard);
  • 100-120 grams of mayonnaise.

Cooking sequence:

  1. Pieces of pineapple from a jar and finely chop.
  2. Randomly chop the crab sticks.
  3. Do the same with peeled eggs.
  4. Grind the cheese on a grater with large cells.
  5. If the prawns are small, then it is better to take them whole. Raw frozen foods must first be boiled (as indicated in the previous recipe), and then refrigerated and cleaned.
  6. Transfer all ingredients to a bowl, pour them with mayonnaise and mix.

Check the finished salad for salt, and fans of spicy dishes pepper it a little.

Royal salad with shrimp and crab sticks

For especially solemn occasions, an unusual Royal salad is ideal. True, he does not have any strict recipes, but there is one interesting option, where there are shrimps along with crab sticks.

To work, you will need:

  • 0.5 kilograms of shrimp;
  • 300 grams of crab sticks;
  • 3 eggs;
  • 100 grams of cheese;
  • 5-6 feathers of green onions;
  • 180 grams of red caviar;
  • 10 tablespoons of mayonnaise.

The cooking method is not particularly difficult:

  1. Boil and then peel the shrimp.
  2. The main component is randomly crumble.
  3. Boil hard boiled eggs. After that, they must be peeled and finely chopped.
  4. Rub the cheese on a coarse grater.
  5. Fold the products in a deep plate, add mayonnaise to them and mix well.
  6. Level the resulting mass, and lay the eggs on top of it and decorate with green onions.

Such a chic salad will be a real highlight of any holiday table.

A simple snack with corn

There are situations when you need to quickly cook something tasty, but there is absolutely no time to mess around in the kitchen for a long time. In this case, you can use the option of a simple, but rather original snack.

To prepare it, you only need:

  • 250 grams of frozen shrimp;
  • 150 grams of crab sticks and canned corn;
  • a little mayonnaise.

Such a dish is prepared in just a few minutes:

  1. First you need to boil frozen shrimp in salted water, and then cool and peel them.
  2. Dice chopsticks.
  3. Get the corn out of the can and strain.
  4. Collect the ingredients in one plate and mix.

This is the simplest salad with shrimp and crab sticks, which will be a great option for a quick and easy snack. Even a schoolboy can cook a dish.

Cheese Recipe

Among the huge variety of recipes, there is another interesting option. This is a royal salad. In composition, it partly resembles one of the recipes described above. True, such a dish is prepared much easier and faster.

To make it, you need to have in stock:

  • 1 large package (240 grams) of crab sticks;
  • 1 clove of garlic;
  • 300 grams of boiled shrimp;
  • 150 grams of hard cheese;
  • 3 boiled squid carcasses;
  • mayonnaise sauce;
  • 3 full tablespoons of red caviar.

Method for preparing a quick salad:

  1. If the squid and shrimp are frozen, then first you need to pour them with boiling water and wait a couple of minutes.
  2. Cheese grated with large cells.
  3. Grind the garlic with a special crush.
  4. Gently chop the crab sticks and squid.
  5. Peel and shrimp in half if they are too large.
  6. Collect all the components on the list in a salad bowl and mix.

The dish is really tasty. But to cook it every day for the money will be very expensive.

Puff Crab Salad

For special occasions, salads are best laid out on plates in layers.

It turns out a kind of cake, which by tradition is necessarily present on any holiday table. As an example, you can try to cook an original crab salad.

To do this, you must first assemble the following required components on the desktop:

  • 180 grams of crab sticks and as much hard cheese;
  • 2 cucumbers;
  • 220 grams of shrimp;
  • 4 eggs;
  • salt;
  • 125 grams of mayonnaise sauce;
  • pepper;
  • fresh greens.

This dish is being prepared step by step:

  1. Boil hard boiled eggs. Peel them and rub on a coarse grater.
  2. Shrimps put for 3 minutes in boiling salt water, and then throw them in a colander and wait until all the liquid has drained. Large specimens can be cut into two parts.
  3. Crab sticks crumble squares.
  4. Finely grate the cheese.
  5. Chop greens
  6. Peel the cucumber and grind it on a coarse grater.
  7. Put the prepared products on a wide plate in layers in the following order: cucumber - ½ part of eggs - ½ part of cheese - mayonnaise - ½ part of crab sticks - remaining eggs - leftover cheese - mayonnaise - leftover crab sticks - shrimp. Garnish the dish with herbs.

So that the structure does not crumble and look neat, you can use a special culinary form in the form of a ring to lay the layers.

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