Red Sea Salad With Crab Sticks: A Step-by-step Recipe With Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Culinary novelty: Red Sea salad

There are several variants of Red Sea salad, but they all have a common ingredient - imitation of crab meat. Regardless of the additions, the dish turns out to be bright, tasty and light. The recipes are simple, even a novice housewife can handle cooking.

Red Sea salad with vegetables

One of the advantages of the presented recipe is the speed of preparation. Literally 10 minutes - and a delicious and healthy salad on the table.

Ingredients:

• 200 g crab sticks;
• 2 sweet peppers of red color;
• 1 tomato;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 100 g mayonnaise;
• salt to taste.

Recipe:

1. Turn imitation crab meat into thin strips.

   

   Use a sharp knife to cut the crab sticks

2. Grind sweet peppers into long strips.

   

   Choose juicy and fresh bell peppers, the taste of the salad depends on it

3. Cut the tomato into wedges and then into long thin slices. Drain the juice from it along with the seeds.

   

   Excess liquid will ruin the appearance of the salad.

4. Squeeze the garlic through a press.

   

   Fresh garlic spices up the salad

5. Mix all ingredients, salt and season with mayonnaise.

   

   Ready-made Red Sea salad can be served immediately

Red Sea salad with cheese

The cheese and eggs added to the ingredients of the Red Sea salad change the taste of the dish, making it more tender. Cheese must be chosen exactly hard, not processed, and it is better if it has a bright taste. For example, Tilsiter or Cheddar are great.

Ingredients:

• 250 g imitation crab meat;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 2 eggs;
• 150 g of hard cheese;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 100 g mayonnaise;
• salt to taste.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Boil hard boiled eggs.

   

   You can add a pinch of salt to the water for boiling eggs, in this case the shell is easier to clean

2. Chop the imitation crab meat with a sharp knife.

   

   You can use crab sticks instead of crab meat

3. Grind the eggs and add to the bowl with the crab meat.

   

   Eggs for salad can be boiled in advance, this will save cooking time

4. Cut the tomatoes and remove the seeds and excess liquid. Then grind and add to the rest of the salad ingredients.

   

   Choose tomato varieties without a lot of seeds (e.g. plum tomatoes)

5. Grate hard cheese with the largest diameter of the holes.

   

   It is better to grate the cheese just before adding to the salad

6. Chop the garlic wedge.

   

   Fresh garlic goes very well with crab meat

7. Mix all ingredients, salt and season. Serve on fresh lettuce leaves.

   

   Ready-made salad "Red Sea" with cheese is good as a snack or a side dish for fish dishes.

Red Sea salad cake - a festive option

This sumptuous recipe is worth picking up on your culinary box. The salad is prepared in layers, and instead of the traditional mayonnaise, a savory dressing is used.

Products:

• 200 g lightly salted salmon;
• 200 g crab sticks;
• 300 g frozen shrimp;
• 5 eggs;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 100 g sour cream;
• 1/2 tsp mustard with seeds;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 2 bay leaves;
• 3 peas of allspice;
• salt to taste.

Recipe:

1. Boil hard-boiled eggs and cool in cold water. Then peel and divide into yolks and whites.

   

   Note the timing carefully: if the eggs are overcooked, the yolk will turn gray

2. Separately from each other, grate the yolks and whites on a fine grater. Whites on coarse, and yolks on fine.

   

   Yolks and proteins can not be grated, but finely chopped with a knife

3. Grind hard cheese with a grater.

   

   It is better to grate the cheese with long straws, so the salad will look more appetizing

4. Chop crab sticks.

   

   Choose crab sticks from a trusted manufacturer

5. Grind lightly salted salmon into cubes.

   

   Salmon must be of exceptional freshness, otherwise the taste of the salad will be spoiled

6. Boil the shrimps in boiling water with bay leaves and peppercorns for 5 minutes.

   

   Small shrimps are also suitable for salad, it will be even more convenient - you don't have to cut them

7. Then put it on a sieve, drain the water, cool and clean from the shell.

   

   Chilled shrimp are easy to peel

8. Mix mustard with sour cream, garlic and salt passed through a press. Mix the dressing thoroughly.

   

   Mustard and sour cream are very good as a dressing for fish salads

9. Gather the Red Sea salad cake layer by layer in the following order: lightly salted salmon, half of the grated proteins, crab sticks, the remaining proteins, shrimps, grated yolks and cheese. All layers, except for the cheese one, must be greased with a piquant dressing. Before serving, the salad cake should be kept in the refrigerator for 1 hour so that it is saturated with the dressing.

   

   Red Sea salad cake will captivate guests and family with its taste and appearance

Video: bright salad with pickled red onions from Natalia Parkhomenko

I started to cook the Red Sea salad recently, but I already remember it with my homemade ones. The usual "Crab" with corn fed up, so such a simple recipe immediately caught my attention. I often add herbs (dill, green onions, parsley) and red onions to it, so the dish turns out to be very fresh and springy.

What I especially like about the recipe is that half of the ingredients are healthy vegetables. Moreover, they do not need to be cooked for a long time and then cleaned. Just chop, season and that's it! You can sit down at the table.

A quick and easy Red Sea salad is made from affordable, inexpensive ingredients. However, this recipe has many fans, because this dish is versatile and has a bright taste. Try different versions of the Red Sea salad and choose your favorite.