To a family event, for a festive meal, it is good to prepare a salad made from natural crab. Most of the population of Russia can afford only canned crab (dishes from fresh crab, of course, tastier). Crab, even canned - a delicacy and quite expensive. However, it should be noted that even canned crab, incommensurably more delicious, useful and natural product than cheap surimi, the so-called crab sticks (in which there are no crabs at all).
Fresh crab salad with avocado
Ingredients:
- crab meat - 200-300 g;
- fruit avocado - 1 pc .;
- tomatoes ripe dense - 2 pcs .;
- chilli;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- lime - 1 piece;
- greens (parsley, basil, coriander, young onion):
- olive oil - 3 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
We prepare sauce-dressing. Mix olive oil with lime juice, season with chopped garlic, chili and salt.
Crab boil in boiling slightly salted water to confident redness of the shell. Boil well with spices for broth (laurel, sweet pepper, peas, cloves). Small and medium-sized crabs are welded in 5-10 minutes, large ones are cooked for no more than 30 minutes. With the help of special tongs, we extract the flesh of the crab from the chitinous shell and cut into pieces convenient for eating, not too finely. From the half-cut avocado cut along the fruit, we extract a bone, cut the flesh into cubes. We cut the tomatoes into slices. Greenery finely chopped. We connect all these products in a salad bowl, pour the dressing and mix.
Alternatively, it is possible not to use the oil refill, but to prepare from the same ingredients a cocktail salad made from crabs filled with live unsweetened yogurt.
The composition of this salad can also include hard-boiled quail eggs, young olives without pits, sweet peppers, asparagus, capers, cucumbers, young brine feta cheese.
Salad of canned crab with squid and sea cabbage.
Ingredients:
- canned crab meat - 1 pot;
- Chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- flesh of squid - 200 g;
- canned sea cabbage - 1 can;
- sesame oil;
- soy sauce ;
- hot red pepper;
- lemon juice;
- greens (wild garlic, onion, basil, parsley, coriander).
Preparation
We scald the squid with boiling water, peel it, remove the cartilage, boil it for 3 minutes and cut it into strips or spirals. We chop the greens. Eggs are hard boiled and cut into small cubes. We lay squid and eggs in a salad bowl,
Using the same ingredients, you can also prepare salads from crabs, shrimps and squid. To do this, follow the above recipes. Shrimp boil separately, clean and add to salads.
To crab salads, it is good to serve table wine white or pink.