Crab salad with shrimp

Beautiful, in a hurry, very tasty, for a festive table! You will cook crab salad with shrimp in 30 minutes maximum. In addition to mayonnaise, you can fill it with sour cream or natural yogurt, thereby reducing the calorie content. You can serve it for a romantic dinner with white wine.

Maria

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Crab sticks

200

Shrimp

200

Beijing Chinese cabbage

200

Pineapples (canned)

150

Garnet

100

Hard cheese

Mayonnaise

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 36 % 8 g

Fats 36 % 8 g

Carbohydrates 27 % 6 g

125 kcal

GI: 67 / 33 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 30 min

Step 1:
How to make crab salad with shrimp? Prepare the ingredients according to the list. Wash the Peking cabbage, dry it and tear it into small pieces with your hands, using only the soft green part of the leaves. Shrimp can be used fresh or frozen. How to defrost shrimp? Do this on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.
Step 2:
How to cook shrimp? Pour water into a large saucepan. The volume of liquid should be twice the volume of seafood. Add salt with ordinary, or better, sea salt (1 tbsp. l per 1 liter of water). When it boils, put the unpeeled shrimp in a saucepan. Bring them to a boil again and immediately turn off the heat. Small shrimp are cooked for no more than 2 minutes. Royal or tiger - 3-7 minutes.
Step 3:
Be careful not to overcook the shrimp and not overexpose them in hot water, otherwise they will not be as soft as you would like. Flip it into a colander, rinse with cold water or send it to a bowl with ice. Peel the chilled shrimp.
Step 4:
Disassemble the ripe pomegranate into individual seeds.
Step 5:
If the crab sticks you use are frozen, defrost them. Without removing the packaging, put them on a cutting board, let them thaw. Now remove the cellophane wrapper. If it unwinds badly, hold the sticks over the steam for 1-3 seconds. Cut the crab sticks into semicircles.
Step 6:
Remove the canned pineapples from the jar into a colander, let the syrup drain. Cut the fruit into small pieces.
Step 7:
Cut the hard cheese into medium cubes. Try to cut crab sticks and cheese of the same size into cubes - this way the salad will look more beautiful. You can take any cheese, semi-hard, soft, according to your taste.
Step 8:
In a salad bowl of a suitable size, combine shrimp, crab sticks, Peking cabbage, pineapples and pomegranate seeds.
Step 9:
Season the salad with mayonnaise and mix. You can prepare the dressing by mixing sour cream and mayonnaise in equal proportions or using one sour cream, natural yogurt without additives.

How to buy shrimp correctly? It is better to buy frozen seafood, but make sure that there is not too much ice and snow in the package. There should be no damage and stains on the shell. The more the tail of crustaceans is twisted, the fresher they are. If the shrimp meat has a yellowish tint, this is not a good sign. It is better to leave such seafood in the store.

How to buy crab sticks correctly? Be sure to pay attention to the expiration date of the product. Surimi meat (minced white fish) should appear in the list of ingredients in the first place. Important! Do not buy the product if there is frost on it. This is a sign of repeated freezing. Fresh sticks should be free of gray and yellow spots, elastic and slightly moist. If the product is sticky, it means it is spoiled.

The film in which each crab stick is wrapped is sometimes poorly removed. To facilitate the process, hold the sticks over the steam for 1-3 seconds.

It is better to prepare mayonnaise yourself. It will be tastier and healthier. See here interesting recipes for homemade mayonnaise.
Also, as a dressing, you can use not only mayonnaise, but also sour cream or natural yogurt. They can be taken separately or mixed with mayonnaise in any proportion to your taste - this will reduce the calorie content of the dish.

Salad with shrimp and pomegranate goes very well with white wine. I love salads with seafood, but because of their excessive cost, I do not cook them as often as I would like. But when I buy shrimp, I immediately realize interesting recipes that I've been dreaming about for a long time. An elegant salad will decorate the festive table!