Salad with crab sticks corn, eggs and 🥗 cucumber: a step by step recipe with photos

Kitchen appliances and utensils: plate, knife, pan, cutting board, plate, salad bowl or bowl, egg slicer.

Ingredients

Product	amount
Frozen crab sticks	250 g
Eggs	3-4 pcs.
Canned corn	0.5 cans
Cucumber (medium size)	1 PC.
Fresh dill	small bunch
Chives	2-3 stems
Salt	taste
Pepper	taste
Mayonnaise	taste

Step cooking

Thaw preliminary 250 g of crab sticks. In order for crab sticks not to lose juiciness, you need to defrost them at room temperature. They should be removed from the general package and transferred to a plate, without removing individual packages until the end of defrosting. If crab sticks need to be quickly thawed, and there is no time to wait, then this can be done using a microwave. To do this, crab sticks are exempted from the outer and individual packaging, put into a plastic tray, covered with a lid and turn on the "Fish" mode. Cut crab sticks into small pieces.
We wash 2-3 stalks of green onions, a small bunch of dill, 1 medium-sized cucumber and let the water drain. Finely chop the onion and dill and transfer them to a salad bowl.
Then boil 3-4 eggs. If the eggs are large, then three is enough, but if it is smaller, then it is better to take 4. Pour cold water into the pan, add salt (about 1 teaspoon per 1 liter of water), put the eggs there and put it on fire. Thanks to salt, the shell will not burst during cooking, and if cracks appear, then protein will not leak into them. For salad, eggs are boiled for 7-10 minutes from the moment of boiling. Ready eggs are placed under running cold water so that they cool faster and the shell is better cleaned. Clean the cooled eggs, cut into cubes and add to the salad bowl. You can cut the eggs using a special egg slicer.
Then add 0.5 cans of canned corn. In corn, its taste is important, and before putting it into a salad, it must be tasted. There is hard corn, not very sweet. And such corn can just ruin the taste of the salad. Therefore, then it is better not to put it at all than to put low-quality corn.
Mix the salad with a spoon.
And the last ingredient is the cucumber. We cut it into layers of about 0.5 cm. Then these layers are cut into cubes.
The amount of ingredients in this salad is not critical. They can be added more or less to your liking. It remains to season the salad with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste. If you intend to store this salad in the refrigerator, then you do not need to fill it all up. Better to set aside the right amount of servings and season with mayonnaise right before serving. Then such a salad will not leak, will not lose its freshness, and will be stored longer.

Ways of decorating and serving

If you want to serve this salad to the festive table, then it should be decorated. Cucumber decoration harmoniously blends with the taste of the salad. To decorate, you need to cut the cucumber in half. Then we make oblique cuts close to each other, but not to the end. We turn the “leaf” inward through one plate. We cut, if desired, into several parts, or spread the whole half of the cucumber with a fan.

Video recipe

This video shows the process of making a salad of crab sticks, eggs and vegetables.

From this article, you learned what kind of salad can be prepared using crab sticks, eggs, corn, fresh cucumber and greens. In addition, you learned how to decorate a salad without using any additional tools except a knife. And what do you like to combine crab sticks with in a salad? What salads with crab sticks do you make? Write your recommendations and tips in the comments.