How to learn how to cook a delicious puff salad with crab sticks 🥗

Kitchen appliances and utensils: a ring from a baking dish with a diameter of 16 cm, a kitchen scale and other measuring accessories, a cutting board and a sharp knife, a large and small grater, a silicone spatula, a large flat plate, several spacious bowls of different depths and diameters.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Training

1. Remove crab sticks in an amount of 250 g from the film and cut into small cubes. The smaller, the tastier the salad.
   
2. Peel 4 pre-cooked hard-boiled chicken eggs. Separate the yolks from the proteins, then grind the proteins on a coarse grater, and rub the yolks on a fine grater.
   
3. Grind 150 g of hard cheese into a separate container, using a coarse grater.
   
4. We clear the fresh cucumber from the peel, and cut it off with thin whole strips with a thickness of 1 to 1.5 cm.We turn each strip into a roll and put it in a deep bowl of a small diameter so that they do not unfold - later we will decorate the salad with them.
   
5. Rub the peeled vegetable on a coarse grater, and then put the cucumber mass in a fine strainer to get rid of excess moisture. Slightly salt the cucumber mass, mix, and then leave it for 5-10 minutes alone. Under the influence of salt, cucumbers will produce juice that drains through a sieve - this way we will prevent the salad from turning out watery.
   

Assembly

1. On a flat plate, set the ring from the baking dish, the diameter of which is 16 cm. We lay the sliced ​​crab sticks with the main layer. Using a silicone scapula, we carefully ram them, forming a dense fleshy base layer.
   
2. Top the crab mass with mayonnaise. Control the amount of mayonnaise yourself, depending on which salad you want to get - fatty or dry.
   
3. Next, we form a cheese layer, which we also thoroughly crush with a spatula so that it is as a whole with crab sticks.
   
4. We coat the cheese with mayonnaise, evenly distributing it over the entire surface.
   
5. Put the cucumbers in the third layer. Carefully level the cucumber mass so that it is evenly distributed in shape.
   
6. We spread 250 g of canned corn on top of the cucumbers, level the ingredient and spread with mayonnaise.
   
7. Next, we form a layer of grated proteins, and then lightly salt them and, if desired, pepper, so that the protein layer is not fresh in the future.
   
8. Grease the proteins with mayonnaise and sprinkle with chopped yolks.
   
9. We decorate the salad with cucumber peel spirals, and then drown them a little in a layer of yolk so that they do not dry out. In the middle of each roll we spread one grain of corn.
   
10. In the center of the salad cake, we set the cucumber spiral, and fill its core with slices of crab sticks.
    
11. We send the product to the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. After this time, take out the cake and carefully remove the shape ring.
    

Video recipe

This video demonstrates the whole process of creating a puff salad cake with crab sticks, according to the instructions for the above recipe.