Is it possible to boil crab sticks. Is there a crab in crab sticks? Is there any use in the current surimi

Expert - head of the Roskontrol expert area Andrey Mosov.

Is there a crab in crab sticks?

No. Both sticks and crab meat in packs are just an imitation of it. This can be understood immediately by the price. A standard package of crab sticks (200-250 g) is sold from 40 rubles. And the same amount of real crab meat - from 900 rubles. The main ingredient of the sticks is surimi minced meat, the content of which ranges from 25 to 60%. Along with it, the composition contains water, starch, vegetable oil, egg white, salt, sugar and natural or identical food additives (thickeners, flavors, dyes, flavor enhancers).

Surimi itself is made from white fish with a minimum fat content: mackerel, pollock, hake, blue whiting. Basically, surimi is a concentrated protein from fish meat obtained from fresh fillets, stripped of blood, fat and enzymes.

The more minced meat, the better the structure and taste of the sticks. On the packaging of the correct crab sticks, it must be written that this is "imitation".

How are they prepared?

Fillets of white fish are crushed and washed for a long time under cold water - until only undissolved proteins remain. Further, all moisture is removed from this mass. The result is a tasteless mass, to which salt, spices and sugar are added. As well as preservatives (sorbic acid - E420, pyrophosphates - E450), glutamic acid, phosphates, carrageenan thickener - otherwise the product will not be stored. After that, red stripes are created on the meat with the help of dyes E160c (paprika extract) or E120 (carmine or cochineal obtained from insects). A special bleach can also be added to make the meat look more attractive, titanium dioxide. By the way, E120 may cause allergies in some consumers.

After painting, the crab sticks pass through the hob, which reaches a temperature of 100 ° C.

How much can you store?

After opening the package, the sticks live in the refrigerator for a maximum of 24 hours. Actually, the shelf life of crab salad with mayonnaise does not exceed a day. Further you can get poisoned.

Is there a benefit?

Yes. They contain sodium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, zinc, iodine. What's more, crab sticks are rich in vitamins B₁ and B₂. Surimi contains methionine, which improves wound healing and has a positive effect on fat metabolism. Crab sticks are low in calories - they contain no more than 100 kcal per 100 g of product. The approximate content of proteins - 6 g, carbohydrates - 10 g. But they cannot be considered an equivalent substitute for fish in the diet due to the large number of additives.

Impurities that are added to crab sticks are less useful: egg powder increases the proportion of protein in the product, and starch allows you to increase the volume and firmness of crab sticks.

Do I need to boil before eating?

No. It is a ready-to-eat product. Additional heat treatment can spoil the taste, because the sticks have already passed it before.

Is crab meat safe?

A recent examination (see table) of crab meat showed that in all tested samples of popular brands (Vici, Russian Sea, Meridian / Snow Crab, Santa Bremor, D (Dixie) in one or another At least there are food additives such as dyes (carmines, paprika extract), stabilizers (sodium polyphosphate, E450, E452), an emulsifier (E471), flavor enhancers (monosodium glutamate) and a water-retaining agent (polyphosphate).

All products are safe, but in some cases they have drawbacks.
Provided by NP Roskontrol
The product that received the lowest rating from the organization.

But at the same time, all samples, according to the examination, are safe in terms of microbiological indicators.

The presence of these additives does not mean that the manufacturer has violated the law. But experts are convinced that the less additives a product contains, the better it is. In addition, the choice "by composition" depends on how important the presence or absence of these ingredients is for the manufacturer.

Surimi, namely they are called in cooking, is a ready-to-eat product. They contain flour, salt, crab or white fish meat. But questions about whether it is necessary to additionally heat it are still found in various culinary forums. In this article, we will take a closer look at such a question and give advice on how to cook this product.

Do I need to boil crab sticks for salad

You do not need to cook them, since all salads with crab sticks are always cold. It is a ready-made product that will make any ingredient tasty and can be combined with various foods: eggs, pineapples, cucumbers, tomatoes, and so on.

Do I need to boil frozen crab sticks

This product perfectly tolerates freezing, and it does not affect its taste. The only caveat is that it is necessary to completely defrost them before use. It is best to take it out in advance and put it in a bag on the lower shelf of the refrigerator. This way they will not be watery.

You do not need to cook them in this form. Hot crab stick has a not very pleasant taste, and its appearance deteriorates.

Do I need to boil crab sticks for the filling

There are lovers of pies with the addition of this product, the imagination of the hostesses really knows no bounds. If you mix them with eggs and onions, it will turn out to be very tasty. Such pies are especially tasty with a cup of fresh coffee (Jacobs coffee 400 price). But there is no need to cook them.

Many people prefer to make stuffed crab sticks. Are they cooked for such a dish to make it easier to unfold? No, they just need to be kept in hot water for 5 minutes.

Does a child need to cook crab sticks

In general, the question itself needs to be posed differently: are they needed in his diet? From the point of view of benefits, it is "empty" food. Even if the composition contains 30% of fish meat, you can buy natural pollock at the same price.

If you still decide to give your child crab sticks, then you do not need to cook them. The only thing to watch out for is the expiration dates.

Crab sticks in Russia fell in love almost immediately. Most likely, the main role here was played by the fact that they can be cooked quickly: this is not even a semi-finished product, but a completely ready-to-eat product.

Basically, salads are prepared from crab sticks - and our housewives loved to cook salads back in the "Soviet" times, with whole basins, but there are many other dishes that are also prepared quickly and taste good. Of course, the name of the product - "crab" sticks also had a certain impact on consumers, but this was the case at the very beginning.

What are "crab sticks"

Now it is already clear to everyone that crabs have absolutely nothing to do with it, but they are already used to the product, they have learned to cook many delicious dishes, especially since the price of sticks is low, and the shelf life is long. After all, we are used to eating sausage without meat, so why not eat crab sticks without crabs?

Crab sticks are sold today in any store, and although not all buyers look at the composition of this product when buying, still many people have doubts and questions. Consumers are interested in what crab sticks are made of, whether their use is harmful, and of course, which manufacturers' products should be bought and which should be discarded. You can find out about the nutritional value of crab sticks if you still look at the back of the package - and absolutely everything should be listed there.

The history of crab sticks

Who and when invented crab sticks? Of course, the Japanese did it - after all, they always come up with a lot of new and interesting things, and then the whole world uses it and is surprised: well, wow! Crab sticks, in general, were invented by the Japanese long ago, at the beginning of the 12th century. More precisely, then the Japanese began to make white mince from fish, calling it "surimi".

The then semi-finished products were prepared from surimi: koloboks, sausages, etc. These products were then fried, boiled or baked using their own Japanese spices. Most of all the people loved "kamaboko" - dense fish balls.

As time went on, the Japanese tried to export this product, but the market did not accept it. In Western countries, it was said that surimi balls resemble soapy rubber and that even dogs would not eat them.

And so, in the 70s of the XX century, everything changed quickly, and radically: the product from surimi became loved by consumers of the entire civilized world. What is the secret of such phenomenal success?

The fact is that it was at this time that food additives began to be widely used in the food industry of different countries: dyes, flavors, flavor enhancers and other fruits of scientific achievements. And then the surimi product, previously understood only by the Japanese, turned into "crab" sticks, exotic for consumers in many countries - an imitation of crab meat. In America, Europe and Russia, crab sticks are especially popular, but in Japan everything, as before, is calm - of all products made from surimi, crab sticks account for only 10%.

Probably, in the XII century, much better quality fish was used to prepare surimi, and it certainly was environmentally friendly. However, today surimi is not made from the best types of fish: usually it is haddock, blue whiting, pollock, hake, perch and other white fish. Fish fillets are washed, ground, and then, to remove excess moisture, passed through a centrifuge.

It turns out a light mass, to which salt, sugar and starch are added - this is surimi. It must be said that Russian food industry enterprises rarely prepare surimi themselves: they buy it abroad - in Canada, the USA, Argentina and other countries, and crab sticks are prepared on the spot.

Many other ingredients are added to surimi: vegetable oil, vegetable and egg whites, purified water, starch, stabilizers, flavors, thickeners, flavor enhancers, dyes such as carrageenan or carmine, so that the sticks have an attractive red color. It turns out that only 45% of minced fish remains in the product - at best, since usually there is no more than 25% of it, which is considered a completely normal ratio. The product packaging does not indicate the percentage of ingredients at all, but you still need to read the composition. Today consumers already know that the first listed ingredients make up the majority of the product, so if the word surimi comes first, the sticks are of acceptable quality and can be bought.

If this word is in second place, the amount of fish in the product is minimized, and when it is not on the list, then there is no fish at all, but only starch, soy protein and various substitutes. Such sticks are hardly worth buying, of course, if you are not completely indifferent to what you eat.

As for the amount of food additives, there is no getting away from them - there are simply no crab sticks without them. Another thing is that in Russia those harmful additives are still allowed that have long been banned in countries where they care about the health of their citizens. Additives such as E450, E420, E160, E171, which can cause allergies and chronic diseases, have long been banned in the EU countries, but in our country they are actively used.

Many manufacturers and even experts are trying to convince the consumer that a small amount of chemical additives will not harm health. Perhaps, if you do not take into account that we constantly buy products in our stores in which there are more than enough of such substances, and crab sticks are added to almost all salads, replacing other ingredients with them - after all, this is cheaper.

In any case, the decision to purchase is made by the consumer, but there is one more thing to keep in mind. Microbiological contamination of a product is much more dangerous than the content of "chemistry" in it, especially since crab sticks are most often not subjected to heat treatment before use. So it is better to buy products from well-known manufacturers in vacuum packaging than cheaper bulk options.

How to choose crab sticks

What crab sticks are worth buying? Of course, you need to pay attention to the appearance: the sticks should be neat and beautiful, look appetizing, be juicy and firm, like crab meat. Dry, frost-bitten and lacking elasticity sticks are unworthy of attention, like those sold from the freezer, where the temperature is below -18 ° C, since their taste, and even more so any value, is completely lost.

You cannot freeze crab sticks again: such a product can be identified by the presence of ice and snow in the package, and also refuse to purchase. Sticks should be evenly and neatly colored on one side, and the packaging contains all information about the manufacturer, expiration date and storage conditions.

Crab sticks: harm or benefit

Consider crab sticks a useful product is not worth it: all vitamins, minerals and healthy fats disappear when cooking surimi, only fish protein remains. Nevertheless, dishes made from them remain popular. One of these dishes is crab sticks “under a fur coat” (although usually herring is prepared “under a fur coat”).

It is necessary to hard-boil 5-6 eggs and separate the whites from the yolks. Grate the proteins and place in an even layer in a deep plate, top with finely chopped onions and finely grated processed cheese. Put the grated butter (50 g) on ​​the cheese, and cover with a layer of light mayonnaise on top. Cut the sticks into thin slices, and then unfold to make "noodles" and lay on the mayonnaise in an even layer. On top is a grated green apple, another layer of mayonnaise and grated egg yolk.

Crab sticks and children

And one more thing.

Some parents are very happy when their young children eat crab sticks for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and even love them more than sweets. It is known that the child's body is more susceptible to "chemistry", and gets used to it faster, so that something like food addiction turns out. This applies not only to crab sticks, but also to all products that contain chemical food additives.

Parents believe that if pediatricians do not specifically warn them about this, then there is nothing to fear. It is worth remembering that doctors mainly deal with the treatment of diseases, but parents should be concerned with the health of children. So it is better for adults to eat crab sticks themselves if they want to, and for kids to cook dishes from real fresh fish.

Seafood is a necessary part of any person's diet, everyone knows about their benefits. Unfortunately, the gifts of the world's oceans are not cheap, so many housewives are actively using their substitutes. For example, instead of crab meat, you can add crab sticks to salads.

This original product is made from ground white fish meat. Sticks are a ready-made product that does not require heat treatment; today, many salads can be prepared on their basis. Below are the most popular and affordable dishes.

Classic Crab Sticks and Rice Salad Recipe

Since sticks came to Russia from the East (Japan and China), the best "companion" for them is rice. This cereal is adored by the Japanese and is considered very useful. That is why it (together with crab sticks) forms the basis of a classic salad, below is its recipe.

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks (or the so-called crab meat) - 250 gr.
• Sea salt.
• Canned corn - 1 can.
• Onions - 1-2 pcs., Depending on the size.
• Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
• Rice - 100 gr.
• Mayonnaise - to the taste of the hostess.

Cooking algorithm:

1. The first step is to boil chicken eggs and rice. Rinse the groats, bring water (1 liter) to a boil, put the washed rice, salt, stir, cook until tender. Secret: if you add a little lemon juice at the end of boiling the cereal, it will acquire a beautiful snow-white color and a slight sourness.
2. The cooking process is 20 minutes (with constant stirring). Throw in a colander with fine holes, rinse, cool to room temperature.
3. Boil eggs in water (salted) until hard boiled (10 minutes). Transfer the eggs to cold water, to cool, peel.
4. Peel the crab meat from the film. Peel and rinse the turnip onions.
5. You can actually start preparing the salad. To do this, cut crab sticks, onions and boiled eggs (you can cut them into small cubes).
6. Open the canned corn, drain the water.
7. Place the ingredients in a large enough container. Before serving, the salad must be salted, then seasoned with mayonnaise or mayonnaise sauce.
8. Serve chilled. Such a salad can serve as a side dish for meat, fish, or be an independent dish.

Fresh Cucumber Crab Salad Recipe - Photo Recipe

The familiar and boring crab salad is easy to update by adding fresh vegetables to the ingredients. Fresh peppers, onions, or cucumbers are great options.

It is with the latter that you should prepare the crab salad in the first place. It turns out to be especially aromatic and juicy. It's also nice that the cucumber cubes crunch. This will surely appeal to children and other vegetable lovers.

Your mark:

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Quantity: 4 servings

Ingredients

• Crab sticks: 300 g
• Fresh cucumbers: 200 g
• Eggs: 4
• Corn: 1 b.
• Mayonnaise: to taste

Cooking instructions

First you need to leave the crab sticks warm for a while so that they defrost. Or use the microwave for this. Then we release them from the packaging. For this salad, cut them into equal cubes.





Wash fresh cucumbers, cut off the stalk and inflorescence. We cut them into cubes.



Pour the chopped cucumbers into the dishes for the crab sticks.



The eggs, which we boiled a little earlier, will also be cut into cubes, like the previous ingredients.



Pour them into a bowl where we will mix our salad.



Add the last ingredient - corn. We first drain all the juice from it. Otherwise, the salad may come out too wet. Cucumbers will also give their juice.



Add mayonnaise.



Mix thoroughly, taste and only after that it may be necessary to salt.



We transfer the salad from the saucepan to a beautiful dish and put it on the table.

How to make corn crab salad

Canned corn is second only to rice for compatibility with crab sticks. It sets off the fishy aroma of the sticks, gives the salad a pleasant sweetness and juiciness. Here is one of the easiest salads to prepare, popular with Russian housewives.

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks - 400 gr.
• Canned corn - 350 gr.
• Mayonnaise - 150 gr.
• Chicken eggs - 5 pcs.
• Bow (feather) - 1 bunch.
• Rice - 100 gr.
• Parsley - 1 bunch.
• Salt.
• Dill - 1 bunch.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Such a simple dish can be prepared without rice (less work) or with rice (more work, but also product yield). Rinse the rice with water, put it in salted boiling water, cook until cooked (20 minutes or a little less). In order not to stick together and not burn, constant stirring is required.
2. Boil eggs until cooked, state - hard boiled, time - 10 minutes. Drain the water from the corn. Rinse greens, dry.
3. You can start, in fact, to prepare the salad. First, chop the sticks, eggs into small or medium cubes. Chop the greens.
4. In a deep salad bowl, combine corn, rice, chopped sticks, eggs. Season with salt, lightly season with mayonnaise. This should be done just before serving, sprinkle with chopped herbs.

White, yellow and green colors of the salad look very bright, festive, spring-like!

Delicious crab salad with cabbage

Russian housewives, unlike Japanese ones, actively use ordinary white cabbage in combination with crab sticks. Indeed, these two products complement each other, the cabbage makes the salad juicier, and the sticks give the dish a pleasant fishy flavor. In addition, the cost of the starting ingredients is quite low, so even students can cook it.

Ingredients:

• White cabbage - 200-300 gr.
• Crab sticks - 200 gr.
• Onion (small head) - 1 pc.
• Canned corn - ½ can.
• Lemon - ½ pc.
• Salt.
• Mayonnaise sauce (mayonnaise) - a few tablespoons.

Cooking algorithm:

1. For this salad, you do not need to boil vegetables, so you can start cooking almost before eating. Chop the cabbage, ideally into thin strips (novice housewives will have to practice, experienced ones have already mastered this rather complicated technological process). The thinner the cabbage is cut, the sooner it will give juice, and also - the dish looks more appetizing.
2. Cut the sticks across or into medium-sized cubes.
3. Put chopped cabbage, chopped sticks, half a can of corn in a deep salad bowl.
4. Peel the onion, rinse under the tap, cut into cubes, their size depends on the skill and desire of the hostess. You can scald it with boiling water, then its sharp taste will disappear.
5. Take half a lemon and squeeze the juice into a salad bowl, or drizzle over prepared ingredients. Salt lightly, mix gently, add mayonnaise.

You can immediately salt the chopped cabbage, crush it a little. Then it will be more tender and juicy, and at the end of cooking, there is no need to add salt.

Crab salad with tomatoes

Cheese and tomatoes are two products that go well with each other. But experimental housewives have found that crab sticks can make "pleasant company" for this couple. A little bit of effort, a minimum of food and a wonderful salad becomes a real decoration of the dinner.

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks (crab meat) - 200 gr.
• Tomatoes - 300 gr. (4-5 pcs.).
• Hard cheese (such as "Holland") - 250-300 gr.
• Garlic - 2 cloves.
• Mayonnaise (to the taste of the hostess).

Cooking algorithm:

1. The tomatoes must be washed. Peel the garlic, rinse, squeeze it into mayonnaise, let it brew a little.
2. You can start preparing the salad: it is better to use a glass salad bowl, because the salad looks very nice "in the cut".
3. Cut the tomatoes and sticks at the request of the "cook" - into small cubes, strips. Grate the cheese using a medium-sized grater.
4. Put half of the crab sticks in a glass salad bowl, grease with mayonnaise with garlic. Top with a layer of tomatoes, mayonnaise, a layer of cheese.
5. Then repeat once more the crab sticks, a layer of mayonnaise, tomatoes, a layer of mayonnaise. The top "cap" of the salad should be cheese.
6. It is good to decorate such a salad with fresh herbs - parsley, dill or onion feathers.

Salad with crab sticks and cheese

Crab sticks are a unique product, they go well with many vegetables, eggs and cheese. Below is one of the easiest recipes to prepare; a novice hostess will also make yummy.

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks - 240 gr.
• Hard cheese (like "Holland") - 200 gr.
• Chicken eggs - 4-5 pcs.
• Salt.
• Garlic - 1-2 cloves (depending on size)
• Corn - 1 can.
• Mayonnaise.

Cooking algorithm:

1. First, you need to boil the eggs - you need to put them in boiling water, slightly salted so that they do not burst.
2. The cooking process is 10 minutes, then they are quickly immersed in ice water, this helps in removing the shell. Peel, cut.
3. Cut the so-called sticks into plates. Grate the cheese.
4. In a deep bowl, mix the sticks, boiled eggs, corn, cheese. Lightly add salt.
5. Peel the garlic, rinse, pass the slices through a press into mayonnaise.
6. Season the salad with mayonnaise-garlic sauce. Let it brew (up to 15 minutes).

How to make bean crab salad

Interestingly, instead of canned corn, many housewives use ready-made beans packaged in cans with the same success. And the most skillful cooks prefer to cook beans (or beans) for salad on their own. True, this business will take quite a long time.

Ingredients:

• Ready-made canned beans - 1 can.
• Crab sticks (or meat) - 200-240 gr.
• Salt.
• Greens - a bunch of dill, parsley.
• Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
• Mayonnaise (can be replaced with mayonnaise sauce).

Cooking algorithm:

1. Pre-boil fresh eggs (cooking time until hard boiled - 10 minutes). Cool the eggs and peel them. Cut into cubes (large or medium - optional).
2. Free the crab sticks from the packaging, cut each into cubes or slices.
3. Rinse the greens, put them in ice water for 10 minutes, dry them. Drain the water from the beans.
4. Put the cooked ingredients in a deep, beautiful salad bowl - eggs and slices of crab sticks, add beans and very finely chopped greens there. Season with salt, season with mayonnaise.

A salad that uses red beans looks especially beautiful. Decorate the salad with greens or cherry tomatoes, cut into 2 or 4 pieces.

Red Sea salad with crab sticks

Another dish, which is based on crab sticks, consists of available products, it is easy and quick to prepare. It got the name "Red Sea" because of the color of the main ingredients - sticks, tomatoes and bell peppers, also red.

Ingredients:

• Crab meat (or sticks) - 200 gr.
• Juicy, ripe tomatoes - 3-4 pcs.
• Red (Bulgarian) pepper - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 1-2 cloves.
• Hard cheese - 150-200 gr.
• Mayonnaise sauce (or mayonnaise).
• Salt.

Cooking algorithm:

1. You don't need to cook anything (fry, boil) for the salad beforehand, so you can start cutting food immediately before lunch or dinner.
2. Wash the tomatoes, remove the stalk, cut into long thin strips with a very sharp knife.
3. Wash the Bulgarian pepper, remove the "tail" and seeds, also cut into strips.
4. Then carry out the same operation with crab sticks: peel and cut.
5. Grate cheese (you can choose large or medium-sized holes).
6. Peel the garlic, rinse, crush with a knife, salt to let in more juice, move with mayonnaise.
7. In a glass salad bowl, mix the food, season with garlic-mayonnaise sauce, do not add salt.

Pineapple crab salad recipe

It would be nice to use real crab meat for the next salad (canned). If you are tight with finances, you can replace with ordinary crab sticks, they also go well with pineapples.

Ingredients:

• Sticks - 1 pack (200 gr.).
• Mayonnaise sauce (unsweetened yogurt, mayonnaise).
• Hard cheese - 200-250 gr.
• Bulb onions - 1-2 pcs.
• Canned pineapple slices - 1 can.
• Chicken eggs - 4-5 pcs.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Such a salad looks gorgeous in the form of layers, so the products need to be prepared and then placed in a deep salad bowl.
2. Boil chicken eggs for 10 minutes (state - hard boiled), cool, cut the proteins into cubes, mash the yolks with a fork in a separate plate.
3. Drain the pineapple filling.
4. Grate cheese (grater with fine or medium holes).
5. Cut the peeled and washed onions into thin half rings, scald, rinse with water.
6. Put sticks on the bottom of the salad bowl, coat with mayonnaise. Then - proteins, chopped onion half rings, pineapple cubes, grated cheese. There is a layer of mayonnaise between the ingredients.
7. Decorate the top of the salad with mashed yolk, add a little greenery, your favorite parsley or, for example, dill.

Important: the salad does not need to be salted, on the contrary, thanks to pineapples, it will have a slightly sweetish original taste.

How to make crab salad in layers

One and the same salad can be served in two different ways, households will not even believe that it is one and the same dish. The first time you can mix all the ingredients and simply season with mayonnaise (sauce).

The second time, you can put the same products, prepared and cut, in a salad bowl in layers, each smearing lightly with mayonnaise. Here is a recipe for one of the sticks based salads that looks amazing and tastes great.

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks - 200 gr.
• Mayonnaise.
• Apple (sweet and sour) - 1 pc.
• Salt.
• Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
• Fresh carrots - 1 pc.
• Cheese (ideally - hard varieties) - 150 gr.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Eggs will require the most time for cooking - they need to be salted with water, boiled for 10 minutes, cooled, cleaned. Separate from each other by cutting into different containers, whites and yolks.
2. Chop the sticks into strips.
3. Wash the apple, cut into strips.
4. Peel the carrots, rinse, grate (grater with large holes).
5. Put in a salad bowl in turn - sticks, apples, whites, yolks, carrots, cheese. In this case, grease each layer with mayonnaise.
6. Sometimes you can find the same recipe, only unsweetened yogurt is offered instead of mayonnaise. Then the dish becomes truly dietary.

Delicious salad with crab meat and mushrooms

The original recipe suggests using crab sticks and canned mushrooms. Quite a rare combination, but why not try to carry out a creative experiment in the kitchen and surprise the household.

Ingredients:

• Sticks - 200 gr.
• Champignons - 400 gr.
• Bulb onions - 1 pc.
• Pepper, salt, vinegar.
• Chicken eggs - 5-6 pcs.
• Carrots - 2 pcs.
• Vegetable oil for frying.
• Mayonnaise.
• Greens for decorating a dish.

Cooking algorithm:

1. According to this recipe, onions need to be pickled. To do this, cut it into strips, put it in a porcelain bowl. Season with salt, add sugar, pour over with apple cider (ideally) vinegar.
2. Stew carrots in oil until soft, cool.
3. Remove the packaging from crab sticks, cut into slices or cubes.
4. Boil the eggs for 10 minutes in salted water, remove the shell, cut into cubes.
5. Drain the filling from the canned mushrooms, cut into slices.
6. Mix the prepared foods in a deep bowl, then gently transfer to a beautiful salad bowl.
7. The dish is ready, you can invite relatives and friends to taste the new original salad!

Crab salad with apples

For a salad containing crab sticks, rice and corn are most often chosen as "partners". But, if you add just one apple, then the taste of the dish will change dramatically. The salad will be more tender, dietary.

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks - 240-300 gr.
• Rice (long grain) - 150 gr.
• Corn - 1 can.
• Sweet and sour apple - 1-2 pcs.
• Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
• Mayonnaise and salt.

Cooking algorithm:

1. The first step is to boil the rice: rinse it, put it in salted boiling water, cook for 15-20 minutes (until tender), stir all the time so that it does not stick together. Drain the water, rinse the rice, leave to cool.
2. Boil eggs - 10 minutes, also cool, peel.
3. Cut sticks, boiled eggs and apples in the same way - into strips.
4. Add rice, corn grains to the same container.
5. Season with mayonnaise, add a little salt.
6. A little greenery turns an ordinary salad into a culinary masterpiece that friends and colleagues will surely appreciate.

Spicy salad recipe with crab sticks, cheese and garlic

The so-called crab meat or an analogue, crab sticks, is a neutral product, does not have a pronounced taste and aroma. That is why garlic can be found quite often in salad recipes; it gives aroma and pungency to a dish.

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks –340 gr.
• Corn - 1 can.
• Eggs - 4-5 pcs.
• Greens (dill) - 3-5 branches.
• Hard cheese - 200 gr.
• Garlic - 3-4 cloves.
• Mayonnaise.
• Salt.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Boil fresh eggs (the norm is 10-12 minutes). Cool, clean.
2. Cut eggs, cheese, sticks into cubes.
3. Squeeze the garlic into mayonnaise, leave for 10 minutes, to infuse.
4. In a salad bowl, mix all the chopped ingredients, add corn and chopped dill.
5. Stir gently, then season with mayonnaise, add a little salt.
6. The light scent of garlic stimulates the appetite, and therefore the salad disappears in the blink of an eye.

Healthy crab salad with carrots

Naturally, crab meat is much more useful than sticks called crab meat, but it is quite expensive. On the other hand, completely different products (more affordable in terms of price and availability) help to make the salad useful. For example, a salad recipe with canned corn and fresh carrots.

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks - 1 pack.
• Canned milk corn - 1 can.
• Boiled eggs - 4-5 pcs.
• Carrots - 1-2 pcs.
• Mayonnaise.
• Sea salt.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Everything is extremely simple. Peel the carrots, rinse them from dirt, chop them into very thin strips or grate.
2. Boil chicken eggs, grate.
3. Place the corn on a sieve.
4. Cut the sticks into slices.
5. In a container, mix the components of the salad, pour with mayonnaise, mix again.
6. Now put in bowls or in a salad bowl, sprinkle with herbs.

Fancy Korean Crab Salad

"Carrot-cha" is a well-known product, popular in the East. In this form, your favorite vegetable is good in itself, as a snack and as part of various dishes.

Ingredients:

• Crab sticks - 200-250 gr.
• Korean carrots - 250 gr.
• Boiled eggs - 3 pcs.
• Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
• Corn - ½ can.
• Mayonnaise (or mayonnaise sauce) - 1 pack.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Cut carrots finely enough, cut cucumbers and crab sticks into strips, and boiled eggs into cubes.
2. Throw ½ cans of corn in a colander.
3. Mix everything, sprinkle with salt, mayonnaise, mix again.
4. Sprinkle the salad with fresh herbs (finely chopped), the dish of the day is ready!

How to make a salad with crab sticks and chicken

Another recipe suggests combining crab sticks and chicken together. The chefs take into account the fact that there is nothing from the real crabs in the sticks, and the modern product is made from ground fish.

Ingredients:

• Sticks - 100 gr.
• Boiled chicken meat - 100 gr.
• Canned corn - ½ a regular can or a small can.
• Boiled chicken eggs - 3-4 pcs.
• Fresh greens.
• Salt (you can take sea salt), mayonnaise.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Boil chicken fillet (half breast) with onion, salt, seasonings.
2. Cut the chicken sticks and meat into strips.
3. Place the corn on a sieve.
4. Boil the eggs (10 minutes), cool. Then cut them and the onion feathers.
5. Simply mix the products in a salad bowl, add salt, mayonnaise (or unsweetened yogurt), mix again.

Households can try to guess for a long time what ingredients are used in this salad, except for onions and corn.

Delicate crab salad with avocado

Many housewives successfully use rare vegetables and fruits, for example, avocado, in cooking. It spices up a friend.

Ingredients:

• Avocado - 1 pc.
• Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
• Crab sticks - 200 gr.
• Hard cheese - 100-140 gr.
• Lemon juice - 1-2 tbsp l.
• Garlic - 1-2 cloves.
• Oil (preferably olive)
• Sea salt to taste.

Cooking algorithm:

1. This simple salad is prepared just before serving, wash the avocado and cucumber, peel and chop.
2. Cut crab sticks into slices or cubes, grate cheese or cubes.
3. Dressing - olive oil, lemon, salt, crushed garlic and herbs. Pour the mixed ingredients with aromatic sauce and serve.

Crab sticks, as a versatile soldier in the kitchen, go well with vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, and even chicken. Salads with chopsticks are delicious and aromatic, but they look just gorgeous.

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Crab sticks became a truly national product as soon as they appeared on the shelves of our stores. Salads with them even pushed the famous Olivier and Fur coats out of the festive tables for a while. But, despite this, some housewives have a question whether it is necessary to cook crab sticks for salad and other dishes, and if necessary, how to do it correctly.

Let's try to understand this issue.

Do I need to boil crab sticks for salad

Crab sticks are essentially an imitation of crab meat. This product is made from processed fish protein - the same mysterious word "surimi" on all packages of crab sticks, as well as minced meat of the most inexpensive white fish. The color is given to the product using food coloring. The production process involves several stages of processing and preparation, giving the final result a ready-to-use product.

You do not need to cook crab sticks additionally. They are completely ready for use. If you bought frozen sticks, then you just need to defrost them.

Do I need to cook crab sticks for stuffing

Some types of crab sticks unwind very well. This property was used by savvy chefs and came up with many recipes where some kind of filling is wrapped in an unfolded crab stick. But not all sticks can be neatly unfolded, even when well defrosted. Such species need to be dipped in salted boiling water for a few minutes.