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Coral Reef Salad with Crab Sticks
Coral Reef Salad with Crab Sticks rightfully deserves a place on the festive table. Moreover, it is also healthy, as it mainly consists of vegetables. Namely, bell pepper, red onion, and tomato, complemented by crab sticks and cheese. A very tasty dressing with unusual spices adds a piquant note. It can be prepared at any time of the year, as bell peppers are always available for sale. This salad is very quick to make, and it can be served immediately. The salad can be decorated with unique chips, which are very easy and quick to prepare. Coral Reef Salad with Crab Sticks will definitely please lovers of light and tasty snacks.
Preparation time: 30 minutes.
Caloric content: 150 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Ingredients
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- bell pepper – 2 pcs;
- red onion – 1 pc;
- tomato – 1-2 pcs;
- crab sticks – 6-10 pcs;
- cheese – 150 g;
- lemon – 1 pc.
Dressing:
- salt – ½ tsp;
- garlic – 1 clove;
- paprika – 1 tsp;
- dry mustard – 1 tsp;
- mayonnaise – 100 g.
Chip decoration:
- water – 90 g;
- flour – 10 g;
- vegetable oil – 40 g.
Preparation
- Prepare all the ingredients for the salad. Wash the vegetables and remove the seeds.
- Prepare the spices for the dressing and marinade according to the recipe.
- Add spices and salt to the mayonnaise. If you don’t have dry mustard, you can take seeds and grind them using a mortar. Grind the garlic using a fine grater.
- Mix the dressing well. Set aside to infuse for a while.
- Cut the onion thinly. In a bowl, add lemon juice, sugar, and salt. Pour with boiling water. Set aside in the cold for ten to fifteen minutes.
- Cut the crab sticks into thin strips.
- For the salad, take red pepper, adding yellow for contrast. Take equal proportions of peppers. If the yellow pepper is large, you can use half of it. Cut thinly.
- For this salad, it’s better to take large tomatoes. Cut only the firm part, removing the flesh. Cut the tomatoes into thin strips.
- Hard cheese must be grated on a coarse grater. The cheese will look more interesting if you pass it through a Korean-style grater. Then the strips will turn out thin and long.
- Place the prepared ingredients in a deep bowl, add the tasty dressing. Carefully mix the salad to preserve the beautiful cutting of vegetables and crab sticks.
- The salad can be placed in a transparent salad bowl, which will already look bright and beautiful. However, it can be more ceremonially served in the form of a cake.
On a flat plate, set a culinary ring. Place the salad in this ring, compact it with a spoon. Carefully remove the ring. Decorate the top of the salad with strips of bell pepper, alternating red and yellow colors.
- Additionally, to decorate the salad, you can prepare simple chips that will resemble a reef. For this, only three ingredients are required: water, oil, and flour. Pour the prepared mixture onto a hot dry skillet. Wait until the lace pancake dries. Remove the chip from the skillet and let it cool slightly.
- Cold chips break well; you can make any irregular shape from them, just like natural coral. Place the “corals” arbitrarily on top of the salad.
Coral Reef Salad with Crab Sticks will adorn your festive table; it will never be confused with another salad.
