Sophisticated Japanese: salad with crab sticks and shrimps

The answer to the question of who invented the salad withcrab sticks and shrimp, lost in the depths of centuries. Most likely, this refined recipe was invented in Japan, where there is a real cult of seafood. However, initially one of its ingredients was crab meat. Now it's surimi fish, the main ingredient of sticks. Naturally, the dish of crabs and shrimps can not be called budgetary and even democratic. Therefore, refined seafood began to be replaced with something simpler - for example, surimi. When the glory of the dish overstepped the boundaries of the Land of the Rising Sun, the salad began to add various ingredients that are rarely used in Japan. This is corn, green canned peas, cabbage. So this is how the so-called "Classic salad with crab sticks and shrimps" appeared, which we will now prepare.

This is simply a simple dish.The quantitative composition of the components depends on your taste preferences. Cut the sticks and eggs (well hard boiled), add to them peeled shrimps, canned corn and peas, season with mayonnaise, salt and spices. Stir - and it's ready! To these basic components, you can attach other products. The main thing is that they are combined with the taste of surimi. Salad with crab sticks and shrimps can be prepared in a glass container in the format of "puff". To do this, gently lay the layer after layer of seafood and vegetables, and decorate the top of the dish with mayonnaise mesh and ground egg yolks.

To make the salad light, low-calorielunch, it makes sense to refer to the original recipe, originally from Japan. Boil a glass of rice, cool it, letting it drain. Instead of shrimp, we will use squid (300 grams). We cook them for no more than five minutes, then cool and finely chop. Just crush and two hundred grams of crab sticks. After that, we mix the above ingredients in a bowl with a can of canned corn and sea cabbage (gram 100-150). Season to taste with salt and pepper, as well as a glass of mayonnaise. An exquisite salad with squid and crab sticks is ready.

For the summer version, let's try to refresh the dishvegetables. In addition to 200 grams of shrimp and seven crab sticks, we use 15-20 pieces of cherry tomatoes, two stems of a green onion, half a bell pepper and salad greens. For caloric content in a salad with prawns and crab sticks, it would be good to cut 50 g of solid yellow cheese. You can dress the dish with both mayonnaise and olive oil, and piquant lovers can add a spoonful of soy sauce.

Well, in winter you can cook unusuallyA delicious dish with smoked capelin roe. It is sold in stores, it is not difficult to get it. As a festive New Year's treat, a salad with crab sticks and shrimps can also be made puff pastry. For this, the bottom of a beautiful crystal dish is laid with layers of boiled potatoes (two medium tubers, cut into circles). In a separate bowl, a dressing of mayonnaise, capelin and lemon juice is prepared. She is generously greased with a layer of potatoes. Next, it is packed packing of diced crab sticks and one chopped onion. Again, everything is smeared with dressing. Then three cooked eggs are rubbed in the dish. Three hundred grams of shrimp are boiled, cleaned and laid on top. If they are small, then it is possible and entirely, if not - it is necessary to cut. The topmost layer should be cheese (100 g), which is rubbed on a large grater.