What is the composition of crab salad

Crab salad has long been a traditional dish of Russian feasts. No wonder, because to cook it simply and quickly, and buy products for it does not require large expenditures. In addition, the usual crab salad you can vary the other ingredients, creating new taste combinations.

A simple recipe for crab salad

One of the first recipes salad with crab sticks, suitable for those who do not want to spend a lot of time to prepare ingredients or just doesn't like rice. For its preparation you will need:
- 8 eggs;
- 250 g crab meat;
- 200 g of canned corn;
- 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- 1 tablespoon of sour cream.

Eggs boil hard boiled, peel the shell and cut into small cubes. Shift in a bowl, eggs and sweet corn, which pre-drain the liquid. Add to ingredients diced crab meat. In a separate bowl, mix the mayonnaise with sour cream and season the salad with the mixture.

Store the egg salad it is recommended that no more than two days and in the refrigerator.

Traditional crab salad with rice and cucumbers

Composition of salad:
- 1 Cup of rice;
- 5 eggs;
3 cucumbers medium size;
- 250 g crab meat or crab sticks;
- 200 g of canned corn;
- ½ Bunch green onions;
- 250 g of mayonnaise.

To salad turned out to be less high-calorie, mayonnaise can be completely replaced low-fat yogurt without any additives or at least low-fat sour cream.

Boil the rice until tender in plenty of salted water, drain and let cool to room temperature. The eggs boil hard boiled and cut into cubes along with crab meat and cucumbers. Put all the ingredients in a salad bowl, add canned corn and chopped green onions. Fill it with mayonnaise just before serving so that the cucumbers did not have time to let the juice, can spoil the appearance of the dish.

Light salad with crab sticks

This is the Lite version of salad with crab sticks, in which rice and eggs are replaced with more beneficial and gentle Chinese cabbage. For its preparation you will need:
- 200 g crab meat or sticks;
- 200 g canned sweet corn;
- ½ Head Chinese cabbage;
- cucumber;
- 1 tbsp of mayonnaise;
- 1 tablespoon of sour cream;
- salt to taste.

For this salad it is better to choose a head of cabbage that has a large amount of green leaves.

Tender part of the leaves of the Beijing cabbage finely slice crosswise and add to salad bowl. Add diced crab meat and cucumber and canned corn. Combine mayonnaise with sour cream and add this dressing to the salad. All carefully mix, the sunflower, if necessary, and serve.