Probably, every hostess already knows that there is nothing in common between crabs and similar sticks. But this does not make a popular product less than any, it continues to be actively used in snacks and the number of recipes is growing every day.
Especially tasty options for crab salads with tomatoes.
Crab salad with tomatoes - the general principles of cooking
For salads, you can use frozen and chilled sticks. There is no particular difference in composition, maybe only in humidity. Frozen sticks need to be thawed out beforehand and only then used. For appetizers, cut into circles, cubes, straws, or grind grated.
Tomatoes for salad need to choose ripe, but elastic. In order to not form a lot of juice in the dish, the insides can be removed, leaving only the meaty parts. It is better to cut tomatoes a little larger than the other ingredients. If the appetizer is laid out in layers, then it is better not to salt the tomatoes, only slightly smear the sauce. Otherwise, increased secretion of juice can not be avoided.
In addition to chopsticks and tomatoes, salads often include eggs. They need to boil hard-boiled, at least 7-8 minutes. Cut into cubes, straws or grated. For sharpness and aroma, onions, garlic and pepper are also added.
Mayonnaise is mainly used as a dressing, rarely sauces based on vegetable oil, yogurt, sour cream, lemon juice, vinegar.
Recipe 1: Crab salad with tomatoes and garlic
Despite the fact that in the recipe of this crab salad with tomatoes and garlic are few ingredients, and they are all familiar, the taste of the final dish is peculiar. A great recipe to make a quick snack.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of chopsticks;
• 2 ripe tomatoes;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 0.15 kg of mayonnaise;
• salt, white pepper.
Cooking
1. Tomatoes need to be washed, dried and cut into cubes or straws.
2. Free sticks from the film and cut into the same slices as tomatoes.
3. Add chopped garlic cloves. 4. Salt, pepper and mix with mayonnaise.
Recipe 2: Crab salad with tomatoes and shrimps "Seafood"
To do this, the crab salad with tomatoes will need already cooked and peeled shrimp. You also need a fresh yellow or red bell pepper, preferably with thick flesh. There is still a red lettuce, which can be replaced with a regular one, but in this case, it is better to scald the pieces with boiling water so that bitterness is gone.
Ingredients
• 2 tomatoes;
• 0.15 kg peeled shrimp;
• 0.15 kg of chopsticks;
• 1 pepper;
• a bunch of dill;
• mayonnaise;
• 1 red onion.
Cooking
1. Tomatoes and peppers shred arbitrary slices, approximately the same size.
2. Chopsticks and cut into slices or cubes, if desired.
3. Chop the onion very finely so that it is evenly distributed in the dish.
4. Mix everything, add peeled shrimps. If they are large, then you can cut each in half.
5. Pour the chopped dill, add mayonnaise and mix. To taste add salt.
Recipe 3: Puffed Crab Salad with Tomatoes
Delicious, nourishing and fast crab salad with tomatoes, which also looks very nice on the table. Most of the time it takes boiling eggs, which will take as much as 8 minutes! Particularly well, this salad looks in portion serving on a plate with greens.
Ingredients
• 3 eggs;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 0.15 kg of chopsticks;
• mayonnaise;
• 70 gr. cheese
Cooking
1. Cook eggs, cool, clean.
2. Cut the tomatoes into cubes, along the way we remove the seeds with liquid. We spread the first layer and coat with mayonnaise sauce.
3. We cut each stick lengthwise into two halves, then with cubes too. We spread the second layer and coat it.
4. The next layer is chopped eggs with mayonnaise.
5. Finish - grated cheese. To taste, each layer can be salted, add chopped greens.
Recipe 4: Crab salad with tomatoes and cucumbers “Longing for Summer”
This salad is especially relevant with crab sticks and tomatoes in the winter season, when you already want something fresh and light. Even if the purchased vegetables are not very pleasing to the taste, in this salad it will not be noticeable, as it uses a rich dressing with lemon juice and mustard. Ingredients
• 2 tomatoes;
• 2 cucumbers;
• 200 gr. chopsticks;
• half a lemon;
• boiled eggs 2 things;
• any greens;
• full spoon of sour cream;
• 3 spoons of butter;
• 1 tsp. mustard (already prepared), spices.
Cooking
1. Tomatoes, cucumbers and chopsticks are cut arbitrarily, we put everything in a common bowl.
2. Add chopped greens and eggs.
3. For the sauce, mix the oil with mustard, grind, pour in lemon juice and put a spoonful of sour cream.
4. Fill the “Tosca for Summer” with an aromatic sauce and you can cheer up.
Recipe 5: Crab salad with tomatoes and “Spicy” avocado
Ideally, this crab salad with tomatoes is made with real meat of sea creatures. But we will prepare a modern version, on sticks. Avocado is better to take ripe, so that the sauce turned out good.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of crab sticks (meat);
• 0.4 kg of tomatoes;
• one ripe avocado fruit;
• 90 gr. yogurt without fillers;
• any mixture of herbs (cumin, oregano, coriander, anise, etc.);
• salt;
• red onion;
• 0.2 kg of cheese.
Cooking
1. Turn tomatoes and sticks into even cubes, do the same with cheese. Instead, you can also take mozzarella or feta. All sent to the bowl.
2. Cut the onion into thin, translucent slices. Add to the salad.
3. Cut the avocado, remove the bone, extract the pulp with a spoon and put in the blender.
4. Pour in natural yogurt without additives to avocado, pour in salt, a spoonful of herbs and whisk it all together. You can just put everything together and knead, but in a blender, the sauce is tastier, the mass is more homogeneous.
5. Fill the sliced ingredients with sauce, mix and spicy crab salad with tomatoes ready!
Recipe 6: Crab salad with tomatoes and “Dream” corn
Corn is one of the most successful additions to crab sticks, so it comes in many snacks. Facilitate cooking and speed up the process using canned food. Also, for the preparation of this crab salad with tomatoes, you will need canned olives, it is better to immediately buy without stones. Ingredients
• 0.1 kg of olives;
• 5 eggs;
• standard corn bank;
• 0.2 kg of chopsticks;
• 3 tomatoes;
• mayonnaise, salt.
Also, the dish can be supplemented with greens, put an onion or a couple of cloves of garlic.
Cooking
1. Boil eggs, clean and chop finely.
2. In tomatoes, remove the liquid part with seeds, cut the flesh into small cubes.
3. Cut sticks and ship to tomatoes with eggs.
4. Cut olives into rings, pour them into a bowl.
5. Open the corn, pour out the liquid and send the grain to the rest of the ingredients.
6. Salad with mayonnaise, salt to taste.
Recipe 7: Crab salad with tomatoes and lightly salted salmon “Red”
The recipe for a festive crab salad with tomatoes, which consists only of red products. You can even use salted salmon (pink salmon, chum salmon, trout). Salad can be prepared in layers or mixed, for an amateur. It looks more beautiful if you cut all the ingredients into strips.
Ingredients
• 0.15 kg salmon;
• rods 0.2 kg;
• 4-5 tomatoes;
• lettuce;
• one Bulgarian pepper;
• mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Fish, pepper and chopsticks shred neat straw.
1. Remove seeds from tomatoes and also cut into strips.
2. Onion cleaned, cut into half rings. If you caught a sharp onion, then put in a colander and scalded with boiling water.
3. All mix, salt, dressing with mayonnaise.
4. If you make layers: tomatoes, onions, sticks, peppers, salmon. Each layer, except onions, is coated with mayonnaise.
Recipe 8: Crab Salad with Tomatoes, Pineapples and Eggs
Another unusual combination in the recipe for an incredibly tasty salad with crab sticks and tomatoes. Canned pineapples are used, but if desired, you can put fresh fruit. Dressing - mayonnaise.
Ingredients
• 6 pineapple rings;
• 0.15 kg crab sticks;
• 3 tomatoes;
• Corn Bank;
• 4 testicles;
• green onions;
• for dressing mayonnaise.
Cooking
• Boiled eggs are cut into random, not very small cubes.
• Tomatoes and chopsticks grind as well.
• Cut pineapple rings, add them to a colander and let excess liquid flow. • Remove the marinade from the corn and send the kernels to the total weight.
• Chop finely green onion. To taste you can put chopped dill or parsley.
• Spread pineapples.
• Add mayonnaise, mix and ready!
Recipe 9: Crab Salad with Tomatoes and Rice
A rich, spicy and nourishing version of crab salad with tomatoes, which men especially like. Ready boiled rice is used, it is better to use long varieties to make the appetizer look more beautiful and neater.
Ingredients
• 0.25 kg of boiled rice;
• 0.2 kg of mayonnaise;
• 250 gr. chopsticks;
• 4 tomatoes;
• 4 eggs, boil;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• Mustard spoon, ground pepper.
Cooking
1. Cut all the ingredients in random pieces. You can dice, you can straw. Tomatoes can be removed with liquid seeds.
2. Add boiled rice.
3. Finely chop the garlic, mix with mayonnaise, add black pepper and spicy mustard. All fray with a spoon.
4. Dress up the salad.
Recipe 10: Crab Salad with Tomatoes and Harbor Caviar
A special feature of crab salad with tomatoes “Harbor” is a charming cap from red caviar. Ideally, it is advisable to use a real, granular product. But in order to save some housewives use a jelly analog and do not complain, the taste of the salad itself is excellent. Prepared in layers in a deep salad bowl.
Ingredients
• 50 gr. caviar;
• 200 gr. chopsticks;
• 200 gr. tomatoes;
• 4 testicles;
• mayonnaise;
• 150 gr. cheese
Cooking
1. Boil the eggs, peel.
2. Cut the tomatoes into cubes, place them on the bottom of a salad bowl and sandwich them with mayonnaise.
3. Chop sticks with very thin rings, put them on top of tomatoes. Mayonnaise.
4. Eggs are three large, then lay out a new layer, salt and lubricate.
5. Three cheese and lay out a layer. Good coat with mayonnaise.
6. If there is enough caviar and a small-diameter salad bowl, then lay it out in one layer, leaving no proline.
7. You can simply spawn caviar in small slides, approximately half a teaspoon over the entire area of lettuce and between them spread out leaves of greenery.
Crab salad with tomatoes - tips and tricks
• Serving any snack will be more interesting and presentable, if done in portions. And crab salad with tomatoes is no exception. And yet this method allows not to remain a snack in the general salad bowl, let the tomatoes juice.
• To make garlic better distributed in a salad, it must be squeezed into a dressing, stirred, brewed, and only then sent to a common dish.
• The most common mistake hostesses make is cutting frozen sticks. The product not only needs to be allowed to thaw, but also to lie warm.
• Crab sticks are very fond of onions, but only if it is not bitter. Therefore, do not forget to doused it with boiling water before putting it into the salad, even if it is not indicated in the recipe.
• Any salad can be served in the form of original rolls. You do not need to chop sticks and mix with other ingredients. It is necessary to turn each into a layer, put a couple of tablespoons of lettuce and roll. This should be done carefully so as not to damage the canvas.
• Believe that crab sticks are harmful to health. But in fact, this is not quite the case; a high-quality product consists of minced fish, proteins, thickeners and dyes. The list of ingredients is not as scary as it is painted, and moderate consumption will not cause any harm.
• If salads are prepared in advance, then you should not put spices, dressings, tomatoes and greens in them. It can also be cooked, but put in separate containers and put into the refrigerator. Add better before serving.
