If you want to surprise guests and cook something new instead of already bored dishes, then try making a Red Sea salad with crab sticks.

Red Sea Salad with Crab Sticks - Basic Recipe

Despite this unusual name, the dish is made from very simple ingredients and does not require much time.

Required Products:

  • three tablespoons of mayonnaise;
  • two cloves of garlic;
  • 0.2 kg of crab sticks;
  • 0.1 kg of cheese;
  • spices to taste;
  • one bell pepper.

Cooking process:

  1. Cut the top off the pepper, remove the seeds, rinse thoroughly and cut into thin slices.
  2. Crab sticks must be thawed, just like pepper we turn them into strips.
  3. Cheese is cut into squares, and then into small cubes.
  4. Everything that we have prepared is sent to a beautiful dish, mixed with garlic, which must be minced in a convenient way, with mayonnaise, and sprinkled with any seasoning to your taste.

With the addition of tomato

Red Sea salad with crab sticks and tomatoes is a bit juicier and richer than the basic version. To avoid excess fluid, add tomatoes only before serving.

Required Products:

  • packaging of crab sticks;
  • two tomatoes;
  • herbs, spices and mayonnaise to your liking;
  • sweet pepper - one piece;
  • approximately 100 grams of cheese.

Cooking process:

  1. Cut the tomatoes into quarters, remove the soft interior from them, and cut the hard into bars, place in a salad bowl.
  2. Add peeled seeds there, grind it beforehand with strips.
  3. Thawed crab sticks cut into oblong slices, mix with other products.
  4. Cut the cheese in any way, but it is better if it is also thin slices.
  5. Season the dish with spices, garlic, add the right amount of mayonnaise and immediately bring to the table.

"Red Sea" with crab sticks and cheese

Required Products:

  • two cloves of garlic;
  • any seasonings and mayonnaise to your liking;
  • two tomatoes;
  • one bell pepper;
  • about 0.25 kg of crab sticks;
  • a piece of cheese weighing about 100 grams.

Cooking process:

  1. Prepare all the ingredients: thaw the crab sticks and slice them obliquely to make long strips, cut off the top from the pepper, remove the seeds and also turn into slices, cut the tomatoes in half, pull out a soft core, chop into small cubes. Do the same with cheese. As a result, all components should be approximately the same length and shape.
  2. Fold everything in a salad bowl, preferably if it is glass, it will look more beautiful especially for a festive table. Add more crushed garlic to your taste, you can slightly salt and a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise.

Quick Salad Option

The dish is prepared very simply and quickly, you do not need to boil anything in advance, but in the end a beautiful and bright salad comes out.

Required Products:

  • 150 grams of any hard cheese;
  • garlic - one clove;
  • one red bell pepper;
  • 0.25 kg of crab sticks;
  • tomatoes - two pieces;
  • spices and mayonnaise to your taste.

Cooking process:

  1. We remove the hat from the pepper, peel the seeds, cut into cubes. In the same way we grind cheese and crab sticks, which must be thawed.
  2. Put tomatoes last. From them you need to remove the pulp and grind it into the same shape as the rest of the ingredients.
  3. We put everything in a container, well, if it is transparent, season with crushed garlic, mayonnaise and, if desired, you can add other spices, mix.

With corn

Required Products:

  • one sweet red pepper;
  • a jar of canned corn;
  • mayonnaise, herbs and garlic to taste;
  • three tomatoes;
  • 100 grams of cheese;
  • 0.4 kg of crab sticks.

Cooking process:

  1. All of the ingredients listed should be cut into thin slices of approximately the same length. Remove the pulp from the tomato, and seeds from the pepper.
  2. We send everything to a salad bowl, add corn, add grated or chopped cheese, put mayonnaise, herbs and other spices to taste.

With fresh cucumbers

Required Products:

  • large packaging of crab sticks;
  • one pepper is preferably red;
  • mayonnaise and herbs to taste;
  • two fresh cucumbers;
  • 0.150 grams of cheese.

Cooking process:

  1. We prepare a beautiful container, send cucumbers cut into strips, pepper chopped into slices, as well as crab sticks cut obliquely so that they look like long strips.
  2. Grind the cheese on a coarse grater, or grind it with a knife, add to the rest of the ingredients, season everything with mayonnaise, herbs and mix well.

With sweet pepper

Required Products:

  • spices, herbs, garlic and mayonnaise to your liking;
  • sweet pepper - one piece;
  • packaging of crab sticks weighing 200 grams;
  • 100 grams of cheese;
  • 2 tomatoes.

Cooking process:

  1. We remove the pulp from the tomato, cut into strips, peel the seeds, chop in the same way. We also do it with crab sticks and cheese.
  2. We mix all the products in a salad bowl seasoning them with mayonnaise, fresh herbs and other spices as you wish.

Puff salad with crab sticks, eggs and cheese

Required Products:

  • one tomato;
  • about 250 grams of crab sticks;
  • red bell pepper;
  • mayonnaise to your taste;
  • eggs - two pieces;
  • approximately 150 grams of hard cheese.

Cooking process:

  1. Defrost crab sticks in advance and boil the eggs to a hard boiled state. Remove the pulp from the tomato, it will not be needed, because it flows strongly, and remove the seeds from the pepper.
  2. Grind all the ingredients with a thin strip knife, grate the eggs and cheese.
  3. Put the ingredients on top of each other in the following order: crab sticks, eggs, tomatoes, peppers, cheese. If you took a lot of products, then you can repeat several times. Do not forget that all layers of salad need to be smeared with a small amount of mayonnaise. And the top can be decorated with remaining vegetables or fresh herbs.

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