Raffaello From Crab Sticks And Cheese: A Step-by-step Recipe With Photos And Videos

2025 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:41

Rafaello made from crab sticks and cheese: a snack you can't help but love

If you want to not only deliciously feed your guests, but also surprise them with an unusual dish, learn how to cook Rafaello from crab sticks and cheese. No expensive products, scanty time costs and always excellent results. It is simply impossible to spoil this appetizer with inept cooking.

How to make "Rafaello" from crab sticks and cheese: a step by step recipe

Immediately, we note that Rafaello snack bars are best made from two types of cheese. The first, solid, will give them density and a more pronounced taste, and the second - melted or curd - will endow the mass with plasticity and allow you to give it the desired shape. However, if you wish, you can do with one hard cheese, if you choose a fatter mayonnaise: it will serve as a "binding material", holding together the components of the treat.

You will need:

• 200 g crab sticks;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 50 g processed or soft cream cheese;
• 3 eggs;
• 1-2 cloves of garlic;
• about 100 ml of mayonnaise;
• dill, parsley, other herbs to taste.

Cooking.

1. Cut the crab sticks into small shavings, or better pass through a blender.

   

   Chop crab sticks as small as possible

2. Boil the eggs and grate them on a fine grater.

   

   There is no need to separate the yolk from the protein, as is often the case when preparing salads.

3. Grate and cheese. Put the melted one in the freezer for 15–20 minutes - this way it will harden well, but will not freeze. Creamy or curd cheese is enough to knead with a fork.

   

   Choose a fine grater

4. Chop the greens.

   

   Dill and parsley go well with "Rafaello"

5. Chop the garlic.

   

   Finely chop the garlic or press through a press if you feel like it.

6. Combine both types of cheese, eggs, garlic, half crab sticks and half greens. Season everything with mayonnaise.

   

   Determine the amount of mayonnaise based on the density of the resulting mass

7. Soak your hands in water, take a lump of mass - about the size of a tablespoon - mold a ball out of it and roll it in the crushed crab sticks you have left.

   

   Press the crab stick shavings lightly against the ball with your fingers

8. Repeat the steps from point 7 until you run out of crab-cheese mass. Put the finished balls on a flat dish, decorate with herbs and put them in the cold for a couple of hours.

   

   To become tastier, the appetizer must be infused

If you want to make your Raffaellos more:

• hearty, add a few tablespoons of boiled rice to the mass;
• spicy - roll up an olive or pitted olive, a piece of walnut kernel, hazelnuts, peanuts, cherry tomatoes in each ball;
• gourmet - replace crab sticks with real crab meat or place a slice of red fish inside the ball.

In addition to crab sticks, the appetizer is dipped in coconut flakes, chopped greens, fried almond crumbs, turmeric, paprika, sesame seeds, and sometimes even canned corn kernels.

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Video: Rafaello snack bars with olives

The New Year is noisy, but we still have so many opportunities to sit at the festive table with Druze and loved ones! February 23, March 8, birthdays … So, an excuse to cook up Rafaello diners will be presented very soon. Have you already decided what exactly you will cook them with?