Classic crab salad without corn

Favorite salad with crab sticks without adding corn. Crab stick salad is a frequent guest on our tables, both festive and everyday. But some do not really like canned corn, which is added to the salad. By excluding this ingredient from the salad, we will not spoil it in any way.

Anna

Recipe author

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Crab sticks

200

Cucumbers

300

Eggs (boiled)

Steamed rice (raw, pre-boil for salad)

Dill

Onion

0.5

Mayonnaise

Salt

0.5

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 29 % 5 g

Fats 35 % 6 g

Carbohydrates 35 % 6 g

101 kcal

GI: 80 / 0 / 20

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 15 h

Step 1:
How to make a classic crab salad without corn? Wash fresh cucumbers, dry them and cut them into small cubes. Put the sliced cucumbers in the selected salad bowl.
Step 2:
Pour steamed rice with boiling water 2:1 and boil until tender, drain and cool. Add the cooled boiled rice to the bowl with the sliced cucumbers.
Step 3:
Crab sticks, if frozen, pre-defrost. Remove the crab sticks from the package and slice. Add the chopped chopsticks to the salad.
Step 4:
Pre-boiled and cooled eggs, peel from the shell and cut into cubes. Add the eggs to the salad.
Step 5:
Peel and finely chop the onion with a knife. You can pre-pour boiling water over the onion. Wash the fresh dill greens, dry them and chop them finely. Add onion and dill to the salad.
Step 6:
For salad dressing, I take mayonnaise, you can take a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream. Season the salad with mayonnaise, add salt and mix.
Step 7:
Cool the finished salad a little before serving. Salad can act as an independent dish or as one of the cold appetizers of the festive table.

As I said, salad with crab sticks is one of those salads that most often appear on our tables. Such a salad is easy to cook, the ingredients for it are always available, and almost everyone loves it, so there are usually no dissatisfied people preparing it for a festive table. But despite this, this salad may not be liked because of the addition of canned corn to it - not everyone likes it. It seems that by eliminating this ingredient, the salad can be spoiled, but it is not. There are actually a lot of substitutes for corn in such a salad.
I suggest an option that is most often at my house - fresh onions and fresh herbs. The salad turns out juicy, fragrant and delicious.
In addition, corn in the salad can be replaced with fresh tomatoes, fresh bell peppers, fresh lettuce or Peking cabbage, hard cheese. Of course, this will be an inferior replacement in taste, but the salad from such a replacement will not get worse, and some may like it much more than the classics.

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.

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.

How to cook hard-boiled eggs? So that the eggs do not crack when cooking, put them in cold water and put them to cook on a small fire. Boil the eggs for 9 minutes after boiling, then pour cold water and cool. From a sharp temperature drop, the shell will be better cleaned.