Once considered a delicious salad with crab sticks and Peking cabbage very soon turned into a common and popular snack. A variety of components began to be added to it - from pineapples and peaches to pickled cucumbers and mushrooms. And all because the combination of its basic components is universal. Below you will find recipes for the simplest Chinese cabbage salad, as well as its various variations with more interesting ingredients.

Basic salad with Chinese cabbage and crab sticks

Very light, consisting of a minimum of products, tasty and at the same time “healthy” salad, we will make with orange.

On 8-10 sticks, prepare:

  • 150 g Peking;
  • one large orange;
  • a couple of spoons of mayonnaise;
  • chopped fresh parsley.

Working process:

  1. Cut medium-sized crab sticks.
  2. Fold them in a salad bowl, add an orange, cut into about the same size into cubes.
  3. Chop cabbage, slightly salted, mix with other ingredients and pepper.
  4. Dress with low-fat mayonnaise and chop with chopped herbs.

With fresh cucumbers

Fresh, juicy cucumber in any salad brings a fresh summer touch, so in our dish it will be just right. Especially considering that it contains eggs that are heavy for the stomach and not the most healthy, but tasty, mayonnaise.

How to make a salad of Beijing cabbage with cucumbers, we will analyze below:

  • a small pack of crab sticks;
  • 5 pieces of eggs;
  • 250 g of cucumbers;
  • 1 small onion;
  • 100 g Peking (by the way, for lack of Peking, it is quite possible to use ordinary white-headed);
  • a bunch of green dill;
  • mayonnaise.

Advice! If you are worried about calories, replace mayonnaise with natural yogurt, and halve the rate of eggs.

Cooking like this:

  1. We cut medium-sized sticks, onions and hard-boiled eggs.
  2. Finely chop the dill.
  3. Shred cabbage in thin strips.
  4. We put everything together in a convenient dish and flavored with mayonnaise or whatever you chose as a dressing. Do not forget to salt with any pepper or other seasonings - as you like.

Peking cabbage and corn crab salad

The combination of crab sticks, sweet corn, fresh cucumber, dill and Peking cabbage seems perfect. It is no coincidence that this refreshing and not too heavy for digestion salad was loved by many.

Would need:

  • a large pack of sticks (200 g);
  • 5 boiled eggs;
  • 300 g of fresh cucumbers;
  • 1 small onion, it is better to take a sweet variety;
  • 100 g of cabbage;
  • medium sized bunch of dill and spices.

Everything is crushed about the same. Dice most foods, except cabbage, which is cut into long strips. After combining all the ingredients in a bowl, season with salt, pepper and mayonnaise.

With rice

Salad with Beijing cabbage and crab sticks goes well with rice. It is as if he himself asks for a dish, hinting at the Asian origin of not only cabbage, but also crab sticks. It turns out a very popular dish among people - tasty, satisfying and inexpensive.

Would need:

  • 5 eggs;
  • a can of sweet canned corn;
  • 250 g of crab sticks;
  • 150 g of rice;
  • a pack of mayonnaise (small, 200g);
  • pepper, salt and herbs.

It’s not difficult to prepare such a salad:

  1. Boil rice in well salt water, drain and cool.
  2. Cut rather finely boiled eggs.
  3. Cut the crab sticks larger so that they are noticeable in the salad.
  4. Open the corn and drain the liquid from it, send the contents of the jar to the salad.
  5. Season with pepper and mayonnaise. A little salt. You should be careful with salt - mayonnaise is quite salty, so it’s better not to overdo it.

As a final note, it remains to decorate the dish with chopped dill greens.

Salad with cabbage, crab sticks, tomatoes, egg

Piquant, "uncooked" salad with tomatoes. For him, you need to buy more crab sticks, about half a kilo, because they will be the main ingredient.

Also cook:

  • a can of corn
  • 5 boiled eggs
  • three tomatoes or four if they are small
  • cheese - 200 g
  • a couple of chives,
  • salt pepper,
  • sour cream for dressing - 200 g.

How it's done:

  1. Blanched tomatoes peel and cut into small cubes.
  2. Three eggs on a coarse grater.
  3. We also rub hard cheese.
  4. Combine sour cream with crushed garlic, put pepper and salt in the same place.
  5. Mix everything and leave in the refrigerator for three or four hours so that the salad combines all tastes and aromas.

Dietary cooking option

There are many dietary options for making this salad.

Reduce calories and make this dish more useful will help cottage cheese, as well as sour cream instead of the usual mayonnaise.

Write down the recipe soon!

For a 200-gram pack of chopsticks, we recommend taking 200 g of fresh cucumber, the same amount of cottage cheese of the lowest fat content, three large spoons of 15 percent sour cream, a little garlic and dill.

Mix finely chopped sticks and chopped cucumbers with sour cream, to which a little salt and crushed garlic are added. Pour the cottage cheese last, and then add the dill. Actually, that's all - simple, but at the same time so appetizing!

Salad "Hope"

With Chinese cabbage, you can cook a lot of salads - starting from Caesar, Greek and ending with a dish with crab sticks, which we talked about a lot today. But what else can be done if everything has been tested, and the cabbage still does not end? After all, sellers prefer not to cut Beijing, but to sell a big head of cabbage ...

If you add good cheese to the traditional composition (cabbage, sticks and cucumber), you will get a nutritious, fresh and tender salad “Hope”. However, both hard cheese and brine are suitable.

Cheese is cut into cubes, everything else is optional, and stripes are also available.

Would need:

  • half a cabbage;
  • 300 g of crab sticks;
  • a couple of cucumbers;
  • 150 g of cheese;
  • a can of corn, and for seasoning salt, pepper and mayonnaise.

Everything is added and mixed with mayonnaise. How could it be easier?

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