There is no crab meat in crab sticks – this is an obvious fact that few people are surprised by nowadays. The elementary statement is supported by the cost of raw materials. It is impossible to buy cheap crab meat nowadays. Otherwise, crab sticks would be very expensive. The
concept of crab sticks originally came to the minds of the Japanese. In the 1970s, there was a shortage of crab meat.
Then the sticks migrated to the USSR,
where they became the
basis of many salads
.
Let’s talk about one of these salads – “Women’s caprice”.
Ingredients for salad “Women’s caprice”:
- crab sticks – 6 pcs;
- mayonnaise;
- tomato – pcs;
- sweet pepper – pcs.;
- egg – pcs.;
- cheese;
- dill – bundle.
Preparation of salad “Women’s caprice”:
Cut small cubes of crab sticks and tomato. Put the sticks on the bottom of the salad bowl and smear with mayonnaise.
Put on a layer of sticks chopped tomato, smear with mayonnaise.
Peel the bell pepper from its insides and cut into small pieces. Put on a layer of tomato pepper, similarly processed with mayonnaise.
Boil hard-boiled egg, peel and grate on a coarse grater on a layer of peppers, level the surface. Shinkuem finely dill, sprinkle it on the egg layer.
Drop mayonnaise on this layer – the drops should be far away from each other. Grate cheese on a fine grater on top of the salad.
A new salad of crab sticks is obtained. It is prepared from simple ingredients, any housewife can make it.
