Salad with crab sticks and apples: how to choose ingredients, so it was delicious

Salad with crab sticks and apples is a frequent guest on the table. Its ingredients are simple, cooking is simple, the taste is quite refined, assimilation is easy.

Crab sticks: is there any crab meat in them?

Crab meat was and remains one of the favorite dishes in Japan. That is why in the seventies of the last century, marked by a deficit of this product, Japanese scientists created a "kanikama" - an imitation of crab meat from surimi.

Squeezing of white fish meat fillet (surimi) for a long time (from the 11th century) was used in traditional Japanese cuisine. This product has no smell, is practically degreased, consists of proteins of animal origin, is used as the basis for many Japanese dishes. Salad with crab sticks and apples is a modern dish of Russian cuisine, based on the traditional Japanese product of surimi.

Why do crab sticks smell differently and differ significantly in taste?

At the heart of any light dish, and a salad with crab sticks and apples is just such an appetizer, there is a balanced composition and the right organoleptic. The taste of crab and apple is a combination of unbalanced, unusual for Russian cuisine. But if the crab sticks still smell like crab, but simply fish, then the salad can be considered unsuccessful.

In Russia (then the USSR), the first crab sticks plant was built in Murmansk in 1984. According to the main recipe, the composition of the product was to include minced meat from white meat of fish such as hake, pollock and putas. As a flavoring, concentrate from the decoction of crabs was used, as in "kanikama".

How to choose crab sticks now?

These products are imported to Russia from the CIS countries, the bulk - from China. In the composition (this often refers to Chinese products) - starch, soy protein, egg protein, food additives, synthetic flavors. Surimi (crushed and squeezed fish fillets) may not be at all. Most often, the manufacturer adds this minced meat to the crab sticks , but only from ten to twenty-five percent. That is, to a salad with crab sticks and apples was real, we must carefully look at the label - the more surimi in the composition, the more delicious the dish.

The label is usually indicated as being used as a flavoring. Usually they are synthetic compounds, but they can also be natural. To enhance the taste, sodium glutamate is added .

Recipe for salad with crab sticks and apple

Ingredients:

1. Crab sticks - 1 pack.
2. Rice - 1 glass.
3. Apple is one big juicy sweet and sour.
4. Egg - 2 pieces.
5. Marinated cucumbers - 2 pieces.
6. Corn - 1 pot.
7. Mayonnaise - 6 tablespoons (any).
8. Sour cream 20% - 2 tablespoons.
9. Green onion - a bunch.
10. Salt.
11. Sugar.

Preparation:

1. Apple peel, cut into small strips, add salt and leave for half an hour. Isolate the juice. Use when cooking rice.
2. Boil rice until cooked, adding apple juice and sugar before the end of cooking. It is better to take Krasnodar rice, it should be boiled to a state of thick porridge.
3. Boil the hard-boiled eggs. To cool. Clear. Separate the proteins, finely chop. Yolks grate, leave for decoration.
4. Crab sticks unfrozen. Cut into small cubes.
5. Pickled cucumbers cut into strips.
6. Chop the green onions and mash with salt.

Compound:

1. In a deep bowl, put the boiled rice, combine it with cucumbers, corn, mix everything thoroughly.
2. Crab sticks, apple, eggs gently combine with the ingredients cooked in a bowl.
3. Pour a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream.
4. Sprinkle with onion and yolk.

Such a salad with crab sticks and corn, apple and pickled cucumbers, green onions in sour-cream mayonnaise sauce is better served at room temperature.

Salad with crab sticks, apple and cheese

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks - one pack.
• Rice Krasnodar - one glass.
• Apples are two juicy and sweet.
• Egg - 2 pieces.
• Marinated cucumbers - 2 pieces.
• Fresh cucumber - 1 piece.
• Corn - one pot.
• Cheese "Russian" - 150 grams.
• Butter - 100 grams.
• Salt.
• Sugar.

Preparation:

1. Apples peeled off, cut into small straws, add salt, leave for half an hour. Isolate the juice. Use when cooking rice.
2. Boil rice until cooked, adding apple juice and sugar before the end of cooking. Brew to a state of thick porridge.
3. Boil the hard-boiled eggs. To cool. Clear. Separate the proteins, finely chop. Yolks grate, leave for decoration.
4. Crab sticks unfrozen. Cut into small cubes.
5. Pickled cucumbers and fresh cut into strips, mix.
6. Grate the cheese on the grater.
7. Grind the frozen oil on a grater.

Compound:

1. In a deep bowl, put the boiled rice, combine it with corn, mix thoroughly.
2. In a salad bowl alternately lay a layer of mixture, crab sticks, egg, apple, cucumber.
3. Each layer sprinkle with butter and cheese, a little mayonnaise and sour cream.
4. Top with lettuce and a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream. Sprinkle with yolk.

Serve chilled salad. Prepare before serving.

Ingredients of "crab" salads

What is a salad prepared for? Crab sticks, apple, eggs - the main components. In light snacks of such a plan, the basis is always either rice or boiled potatoes. With them corn and green peas are consistent. Marinated and fresh cucumbers set off the taste, the apple and pear contribute spice. Cheese gives sharpness and smoothens the roughness of organoleptic. In sour cream-mayonnaise sauce you can add freshly ground black pepper, green onions, ginger, coriander.