Lenten salad with crab sticks: recipes

Salad festive salads can be prepared in such a way that they will not succumb to the usual snacks. The right combination of products, original dressing and beautiful design will ensure your dish success even in the part of the guests that do not adhere to a strict diet. From this article you will learn how to prepare a lean salad with crab sticks in various variations.

Vegetable salad with crab sticks

This simple dish is interesting in that it can be prepared for both a festive table and an ordinary family dinner. Postal salads (recipes will be presented below) are usually seasoned with lemon juice, butter or balsamic vinegar. However, you can use for this purpose also a special lean mayonnaise, prepared independently from products of vegetable origin. About how to make this gas station, we will tell at the end of this article. So, lettuce with crab sticks is prepared as follows.

1. Finely chop 300 grams of fresh white cabbage and mash it well with hands or a wooden crush.
2. Clean and grate on a fine grater 100 grams of sweet carrots.
3. 250 grams of crab sticks (instead of them you can take crab meat) cut into small cubes.
4. Mix all the prepared ingredients with canned corn (one jar) and mayonnaise. Do not forget to add salt and ground pepper to the salad to taste.

Festive salad

A light vegetable salad with seafood will especially please the beautiful half of humanity. Thanks to the ingredients that make up this dish, the snack is not only very delicious, but also light enough. Surprise your guests by preparing unusual lean salads for the New Year.

1. Defrost and boil until prepared in salted water 200 grams of shrimp without shell. To give them a piquant taste, put the pepper into the pan and the bay leaf.
2. Preheat a spoonful of vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the prepared shrimps until golden brown.
3. 200 grams of crab sticks (or canned crab meat) chop randomly.
4. 100 grams of onions cut into half rings. If you do not like its specific taste, then you can beat it with boiling water.
5. Sweet red pepper (200 grams) and tomatoes (300 grams), cut into strips.
6. For filling, mix 15 ml of balsamic vinegar, 20 ml of olive oil, 15 ml of soy sauce and juice of half a small lemon. If you do not like the sour taste, then simply put olive oil in the salad and add a spoonful of lemon juice.
7. Mix all the prepared ingredients, add refueling. Prepare the prepared dish, pepper and let it sit for a while before serving.

Lenten salad with crab sticks and fresh cucumber

This dish is prepared very simply from the minimum number of products. Like all lean salads (recipes), this dish consists of fresh vegetables and original dressing.

1. Ten crab sticks, one large fresh cucumber and one tomato cut into cubes.
2. For filling, mix a spoonful of Dijon mustard and two spoons of lean mayonnaise of your own preparation.
3. Combine all the products, add 150 grams of canned corn, sauce and mix well. Salt and pepper the salad to taste.

Salad in lavash

Lenten salad with crab sticks can be an excellent basis for dietary rolls or shawarma. If you like these snacks, then do not deny yourself little pleasures and treat your loved ones with hearty dishes.

• For the filling, cut three fresh cucumbers, 300 grams of crab sticks, half a piece of yellow and half a red bell pepper. Tear off the leaves of the iceberg lettuce (also you can use ordinary or chopped Chinese cabbage).
• Thin lavash cut into portions and spread each sauce of mustard and homemade mayonnaise. Put on it lettuce leaves, then a thin layer of Korean carrots, vegetables (they need a little salt) and crab sticks. Fold the pita bread with an envelope and lightly fry the grill in a pan with a minimum amount of sunflower oil.

Spicy mayonnaise

This refueling will be indispensable on the festive table during the posts. Prepare it is simple enough.

1. As you could see, a lean salad with crab sticks can be prepared in a variety of ways. Therefore, use our recipes, making your menu diverse and vivid. Connect 100 ml of water, two tablespoons of flour and mix well. Note that the amount of flour will depend on the density of the finished sauce. Therefore, choose its quantity yourself, focusing on your own preferences.
2. Put the mixture on the fire and bring it to a boil. When it cools down, add salt, pepper, lemon juice and mustard to it.
3. Pour into the bowl of the blender the resulting mass, as well as 100 ml of sunflower oil and whisk all together until a homogeneous mass is obtained.