Crab Stick Salad
Cooking time: 1 h 30 min
Recipe yield: 6 servings
Crab Stick Salad Recipe
Crab stick salad is one of the traditional salads that are cooked for the New Year and other holidays. The recipe for crab stick salad is simple, unlike newest Year's salads, this salad is light and has a unique taste, since it does not include potatoes or other ingredients that are difficult for the body. Anyone can cook such a salad at home, the main thing is to stock up on the ingredients in advance and spend a little time preparing this wonderful holiday salad. Crab stick salad is mainly cooked for New Year and other holidays in countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, but crab stick salad has nothing to do with the Soviet Union, total poverty and shortages. Crab stick salad appeared precisely thanks to the collapse of the Soviet Union, when previously unavailable food products became available for sale. Among them were the two most important ingredients of crab stick salad - canned corn and the crab sticks themselves. Therefore, we can assume that crab stick salad appeared in the 90s of the 20th century, since previously there was simply nothing to prepare it from. Many people still prepare crab stick salad now; it has become one of the traditional dishes cooked for the New Year, along with Olivier salad, herring under a fur coat and Mimosa salad, although it appeared much later than them. The only difference between the modern crab stick salad recipe and the original one is the use of Beijing cabbage in it. When the crab stick salad recipe first appeared, it included coarser white cabbage, but with the advent of more tender Beijing cabbage, crab stick salad became even tastier than before. Crab stick salad is popular due to its lightness and interesting taste, but there are recipes when they try to add potatoes, rice and other ingredients to the crab salad, which deprive this salad of its main advantages. Therefore, it is better to leave the rice for the pilaf, and the potatoes for the Olivier salad, and cook the crab salad according to the traditional recipe.
Crab Stick Salad Recipe Ingredients
Crab Stick Salad Cooking Recipe
Crab stick salad can be cooked using this classic recipe. First you need to hard boil the eggs and cool them.
At this time, you can process the main ingredient of the crab stick salad - crab sticks. To do this, they need to be defrosted a little, but not completely, otherwise they will be difficult to cut. Cut each crab stick lengthwise into four pieces and then cut into small cubes.
Finely chop the Chinese cabbage, and the part of the cabbage located closer to the stalk must be cut smaller than the cabbage leaves, otherwise the crab salad will turn out to be uneven in taste.
Peel the cooled eggs and finely chop or crush with a fork so that you get a homogeneous mass of small egg pieces.
Cut the cucumbers into cubes, chop the greens. Drain liquid from canned corn.
Now place the crab sticks, canned corn, cucumbers, Chinese cabbage and eggs in a large bowl, pour in lemon juice, salt, pepper, season with mayonnaise and mix well.
Ready to put the crab stick salad in the refrigerator at least overnight, or better yet, for a day, so that the tastes of its individual ingredients combine into the overall taste of the crab salad.
