Crab cake is a very modern interpretation of the salad. The appetizer looks gorgeous, will decorate the table and will surely delight with taste. And you can cook it for a variety of recipes.
Here are collected popular options that are worthy of attention.
Crab Cake - General Cooking Principles
For the cake, you can use all those products that go to the salad. These are eggs, sticks, rice, cucumbers, various greens, onions, and corn. There are options with the addition of salted fish, mushrooms, some interesting recipes can be found just below. Mayonnaise is usually used to lubricate products, sauces based on it are sometimes made, and spices are welcome.
Popular cakes:
1. With wafer shortcakes. They have a neutral or even salty taste, thin, ideal for a layer of filling.
2. From the expanded sticks. They are used in the form of cakes. It is important to pay attention to the sticks when buying, not all of them can unfold.
3. From products in layers. Usually for assembly use a split form, and confectionery ring will fit. Ingredients are stacked in turn, tamped. After cooling, the ring is removed, the cake is decorated.
To decorate the crab cake, you can use different types of greens, often make balls of cheese with garlic and chopsticks, you can simply boil and cut quail eggs, cut flowers from cucumbers or tomatoes. The main thing is not to forget that for decoration you need to use those products that are inside or combine well with the main ingredients, complementing their taste.
Crab Cake with Wafer Cakes
The most common and simple recipe for crab cake. It is advisable to assemble it in the specified sequence so that the layers are evenly soaked. Mayonnaise immediately shift into a bag, make a hole for squeezing a thin stream. It is difficult to lubricate the layers with a spoon, the crushed ingredients will drag, and the waffles will become limp from a large amount of sauce. Ingredients
• 0.25 kg of sticks;
• 4 eggs (cook);
• 1 package of cake layers;
• 150 grams of cheese;
• 50 g of dill;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 300g of mayonnaise;
• 1 processed cheese;
• 2 cucumbers;
• 7 quail eggs (cook).
Method of preparation
1. Lay one cake on a plate, lightly grease and cover with the second cake, smear it better. Put aside a couple of crab sticks, chop everything else. Spread half on the cake, make a mayonnaise net, cover with a new crust, we also coat it.
2. We rub or we cut eggs, we spread, we grease and we cover.
3. Now comes a layer of chopped cucumbers, mixed with half greens, oil, but not salt, cover with a new cake.
4. Now a layer of cheese, grease, cover.
5. Finish with a layer of remaining chopsticks, just sprinkle the entire cake.
6. Rub the melted cheese and the two remaining sticks, add garlic and some mayonnaise. Roll the balls, spread on the cake. Cut the quail eggs along, lay on the cake.
7. Sprinkle the sides of the snack cake with greens.
Crab cake “Paradise”
This is a variant of the cake from the chopsticks that will be the cake layers. It is important to choose large and long sticks, they must fully unfold to a rectangle or square. If you need a large cake, you can lay several unwrapped sticks on a layer, increasing proportionally the other ingredients of the snack.
Ingredients
• 10 sticks;
• three boiled eggs;
• 3 pickled cucumbers;
• 70 grams of rice;
• 1 bunch of dill;
• 250 g of mayonnaise;
• onions, spices.
Method of preparation
1. Boil rice in salted water until soft, drain into a colander. If there is no time to cool, then simply rinse with cold water, leave, let drops drip.
2. Chop finely or rub boiled eggs into a bowl, add a little onion, but without it, pour the rice.
3. Salted cucumbers and add to the stuffing, we fill it all with mayonnaise, but we adjust the quantity ourselves, we need a thick mass that will not spread.
4. Unfold melted sticks to get “cakes”.
5. Put one unfolded stick on the dish. If they are small, then collect a cake of several pieces, you can cut off the excess. 6. Grease the cake with chopsticks stuffing, re-lay the layer, then the salad, collect the cake. Decorate with greens, you can lay out a lattice of chopsticks cut into strips. Give the snack cake for about an hour to stand in the fridge.
Crab cake with rice in a split form
If there is no detachable form, then you can use a pastry ring or come up with something else. It’s just not possible to lay things like layers of lettuce, because it will be necessary to tamp food.
Ingredients
• 100 grams of rice;
• 250 g of mayonnaise;
• 0.25 g of chopsticks;
• 0.17 kg of cheese (can be processed);
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 4 eggs (cook);
• 1 tomato;
• greens, spices.
Method of preparation
1. Cook rice in salted water, dump into a colander. After cooling down, add a little bit of greenery to it, just a few branches, it will make the layer more beautiful, put a spoon of mayonnaise, stir and shift it into a split ring mounted on a flat dish.
2. Cut chopsticks finely, put them on top of rice, grease and tamp. Next, do the same with chopped finely tomatoes, it is not necessary to cover it with sauce.
3. Egg whites and cheese rub in a separate bowl, stir together, add chopped garlic cloves, but you can make a salad without them. Now we put this mixture on the tomatoes, we coat the layer well.
4. Remove the cake to freeze in the fridge for a couple of hours.
5. Carefully twist and remove the ring. Rub the top of the boiled yolks that are left, sprinkle the sides of the cake with greens. To decorate, you can use tomatoes or crab sticks.
Crab Cake (with red fish)
Another version of the cake with unwrapped chopsticks. Simple and quick recipe. Cheese, you can take a hard or mix it in half with processed cheese. Fish used salted red, it can be pink, salmon or any other species.
Ingredients
• 7-8 large sticks;
• 120 g of fish;
• five eggs;
• 200 grams of cheese;
• a little mayonnaise;
• 3 tablespoons of corn;
• 5-8 olives.
Method of preparation
1. Start by boiling eggs and thawing sticks, as this takes the most time. Eggs cool, peel, grate in a bowl. Also, grate cheese or two kinds of cheese with them, sometimes they add a little cottage cheese, which can also be done. 2. Cut the red fish into pieces, not large, fall asleep in the total mass. We introduce mayonnaise, herbs and spices to taste. Stir.
3. Unfold the chopsticks, alternately grease the prepared salad, stacking each other in the form of a small cake.
4. Cut the olives in half lengthwise, put them on the salad with corn kernels. The side parts can be simply greased, sprinkled with dill or other herbs.
Crab cake with wafer crust and salmon
Another variation of waffle crab cake. If there is no salmon, then you can take another salted fish of red varieties.
Ingredients
• 6 cake layers;
• 0.3 kg of chopsticks;
• 0.15 kg of red fish;
• 4 eggs (cook);
• mayonnaise for greasing;
• 0.13 kg of cheese;
• greens for decoration.
Method of preparation
1. We put one cake on another, having missed a thin layer of mayonnaise, so that they stick together a little. Next, rub the eggs, add a little mayonnaise, stir and lubricate the first layer, cover with a dry waffle cake.
2. We rub two-thirds of the sticks, mix with mayonnaise, lay out, cover.
3. Now we rub cheese, we also fill with sauce, we spread it.
4. Grind the remaining chopsticks, add to them the chopped fish, but not all, half enough, dressing with sauce, grease the cake and cover again.
5. Thinly grease the last wafer with mayonnaise, lay out the remaining fish, cut into neat plates, decorate the cake with greens.
Crab Cake with Olives and Green Onions
This cake is also made from chopsticks and wafer cakes, but it differs from the previous versions in a spicy taste and a difficult combination of products. Olives, it is advisable to immediately choose the seedless, so that you can quickly cut.
Ingredients
• bank of olives;
• 5 cake layers;
• 400 g chopsticks;
• mayonnaise;
• 5 eggs;
• 2 onions;
• 12 g garlic;
• 150 grams of cheese.
Method of preparation
1. Grate the cheese in one bowl, eggs in the other, chopsticks in the third, chop the green onions separately, split in half.
2. Cut the olives into small cubes, you can put them for decoration. Grind the product poured into the eggs, add mayonnaise, stir. 3. Squeeze the garlic to the cheese, also seasoned with mayonnaise.
4. Chopsticks are mixed with half of onion, seasoned, stirred.
5. We spread the mixture of eggs on a double wafer cake, spread it, cover it, spread the crab mass, cover it, then the cheese mixture goes. Thoroughly smear.
6. Cover the cake with a waffle cake, put mayonnaise, fall asleep with the remaining green onions, you can decorate with olives, chopsticks.
Crab Cake - Tips and Tricks
• To reduce the fat content of the snack cake, you can mix mayonnaise with sour cream or partially coat it with some layers, for example, cheese or eggs.
• If juicy products, such as pickled or fresh cucumbers, are added to the cake, they should be pressed after cutting. From tomatoes it is better to immediately remove the seeds with watery parts.
• If a snack cake is made in advance, then you should not decorate it immediately, the greens will wither, will lose an attractive appearance. It is better to make out before serving.
• Filling products with spices should be very careful. Mayonnaise and cheese themselves contain salt, these layers do not need to be salted. Vegetables when added begin to produce juice.
• If you want to give the cake a spicy taste and add spicy ingredients (garlic, pepper, mustard), then it is best to lay it in the sauce, otherwise it will not work out evenly.
