Crab sticks in batter. Options for batter for crab sticks

02.09.2019 Fish dishes

Crab sticks in batter with cheese or other ingredients - a beautiful and unusual dish. They can be eaten for breakfast or lunch, prepared as an appetizer for beer or on a table with snacks. In general, it is necessary to master the secrets of preparing such a dish, because it will definitely become the highlight of an everyday or festive table.

Crab sticks in batter: recipes with photos

With flour and egg

The easiest way to batter, but the sticks are very tasty and beautiful. They not only please with their crunch, but they cheer up with just one appearance.

Ingredients Required:

  • 300 grams of crab sticks;
  • A teaspoon of vegetable oil;
  • Lemon and salt, pepper;
  • Three eggs;
  • Two thirds of a glass of flour;
  • Half a glass of milk (can be replaced with water);
  • Greens to taste;
  • Pickle;

You will have to spend about half an hour preparing snacks. Crab sticks, if frozen, must first be thawed. Put the prepared ingredients on a plate, salt and pepper, sprinkle with half the juice of lemon juice, add vegetable oil. Mix everything and leave for twenty minutes, putting in the refrigerator.

At this time, you can cook batter. It will be necessary to separate the proteins from the yolks. Flour is bred either with warm milk or plain water. Grind the yolks with salt and add to the flour. Mix everything and leave in a warm place for 15 minutes. Beat the whites separately and add to the batter just before the frying process. Now, each stick should be dipped in batter and fry in a pan with heated vegetable oil.

When a golden crust appears, then turn the stick. Previously, you can once again dip it into the batter. When serving, sprinkle the dish with finely chopped herbs and slices of pickled cucumber. Lemon slices can be laid out nearby, the juice of this citrus fruit will give special flavor notes to this simple dish.

With sour cream

This is an easier and faster way to cook crab sticks in batter. It is possible to determine which batter is tastier only by tasting.

Ingredients Required:

  • Two packs of crab sticks, 250 grams each;
  • Two eggs;
  • A tablespoon of flour with a slide;
  • Three tablespoons of sour cream (if desired, you can mix with mayonnaise or completely replace sour cream with mayonnaise);
  • Favorite seasoning mixture;

Beat eggs with flour to make a homogeneous mass, add sour cream and seasoning. The batter should turn out to be thick so that when dipping the sticks it does not drain, but completely covers. It remains only to fry the crab sticks, dipped in batter, in a heated pan.

With mayonnaise and cheese

Ingredients Required:

  • 200 grams of crab sticks;
  • 50 grams of mayonnaise;
  • One lemon;
  • 300 grams of vegetable oil;
  • 80 grams of wheat flour;
  • A pinch of black pepper, salt;
  • Two eggs;
  • 100 grams of hard cheese;

Crab sticks should be thawed. It will be necessary to marinate them in lemon juice, sprinkled with salt and pepper. Leave for thirty minutes, this time is just enough to cook a cheese batter. First mix the eggs and mayonnaise. grate and add to the mayonnaise mixture. Mix everything and add flour. The batter is ready, when the sticks are pickled, you can dip them in the batter and fry them until golden brown in hot oil. Before serving, put the finished sticks on a paper towel so that excess oil is absorbed into the paper.

With dutch cheese and egg

Ingredients Required:

  • 100 grams of Dutch cheese;
  • One egg;
  • 250 grams of crab sticks;
  • A little flour, salt and vegetable oil;

Thaw the sticks and free from cellophane. Unroll each stick and put in it a little cheese, which should be grated on a fine grater. Now wrap the wand back. Make the main batter from the egg. Simply break it into a bowl, add salt and pepper, stir with a fork. Now roll the crab stick in flour, then the egg, and then fry until cooked.

According to any of the recipes above, cooking crab sticks in batter will be easy. We hope that this delicious dish will appeal to you and your loved ones, it will certainly enter the permanent menu.

Crunchy crab sticks in batter - a great option for a homemade appetizer to the "foamy". This dish will be an original decoration for the festive table. Optionally, for snacks, you can choose an interesting and delicious filling.

Fried crab sticks in cheese batter

Ingredients: a large pack of crab sticks, 140 g of hard cheese, 2 eggs, salt, 120 g of wheat flour, a mixture of dried garlic and sweet paprika.

  1. The first step is preparing a batter for a future snack. To do this, eggs, salt, flour and spices are combined in a bowl. You need to mix all the products very well and pour a little boiled water to them.
  2. Crab sticks need to be taken high-quality, which do not tear when deployed. Preferably, not frozen, but chilled. Each stick unfolds, a bar of cheese is determined in its middle, and then it is wrapped back.
  3. Sticks are fried in well-heated oil. Previously, each of them needs to be dipped in batter.

Fried crab sticks with cheese are immediately laid out on a paper napkin to get rid of excess fat.

Garlic Recipe

Ingredients: 120 g of crab sticks, egg, salt, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of high-grade flour, spices, 2-3 garlic cloves.

  1. The egg beats well with a whisk. Salt and spices are added to it. Immediately you can send garlic, crushed in any convenient way, to the mixture. It is best to pass it through a garlic squeezer.
  2. Flour and spices are gradually poured into a semi-prepared batter. Mix the mixture until smooth. By consistency, it will look like thick sour cream.
  3. Thawed sticks get rid of the film. Each of them is divided into three equal parts.

The sticks are dipped in batter and fried until golden in hot oil.

In beer batter

Ingredients: a large pack of crab sticks, 1 clove of garlic, a couple of processed cheese, a little mayonnaise, 80 ml of filtered water and beer, 2 eggs, 90 g of flour, salt.

  1. For the filling, the cheese is combined with a small amount of mayonnaise and chopped garlic.
  2. Each crab stick gently unfolds and is covered with a garlic mixture. Then you can wrap it back.
  3. To prepare batter, cold beer, water and yolks whipped with salt are combined. Gradually, sifted flour is added to the mass.
  4. The squirrels whipped to a thick foam are sent last to the batter. Mix the components very carefully with a wide spoon.
  5. The crab stick is strung on a fork and completely immersed in batter. Next, the appetizer is fried in well-heated fat from all sides.   It is most convenient to use a deep fryer.

Fried crab sticks in batter served with garlic cream sauce.

No eggs

Ingredients: 90 ml of light beer, a large package of crab sticks, half a lemon, aromatic herbs, half a glass of wheat flour, salt.

  1. Juice is squeezed from half a lemon into a bowl. Salt and aromatic herbs to taste are immediately added there.
  2. Frozen sticks are sent to the resulting marinade for half an hour.
  3. Flour is sifted into a separate bowl and beer is poured. The mass is well kneaded. You can use a mixer for this. Salt is added, seasonings.
  4. Each pickled stick is immersed in a batter of beer and flour, after which it is laid out in a roasting pan with heated oil.

A treat is prepared before the appearance of a golden crust.

Stuffed crab sticks in batter

Composition of components: 12 pcs. crab sticks, a bunch of greens, 2-2.5 tbsp. tablespoons flour, 1 tbsp. spoon of boiled water, 3 eggs, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of mayonnaise, 90 g of any cheese (preferably hard), garlic to taste, sour cream or mayonnaise to lubricate the filling.

  1. If necessary, the sticks are pre-expanded and stuffed with filling.
  2. The latter is prepared from finely grated cheese, combined with crushed garlic, sour cream or mayonnaise. Finely chopped greens are also added to the filling.
  3. For batter, the sauce and eggs beat well. Water pours out to them.
  4. Each stick with filling is crumbled in flour, immersed in batter, and then fried in hot oil until crusted.

You can cook stuffed crab sticks in batter with a variety of fillings to taste. For example, add fresh or pickled vegetables, all kinds of sauces and spices.

Mayonnaise Appetizer Recipe

Ingredients: 170 g of crab sticks, chicken egg, 2.5 tbsp. tablespoons high-grade flour, 1 tbsp. spoon of mayonnaise, salt, a handful of crumbs.

  1. This version of batter is cooked faster and easier. To do this, an egg is broken into a bowl, salt is added and the amount of mayonnaise indicated in the recipe. Wheat flour is sent here in small portions. The batter is mixed until smooth.
  2. If necessary, the sticks are previously thawed and removed from the packaging. Each of them is dipped in the resulting batter, and then - in breadcrumbs.
  3. Appetizer is fried in a pan with well-heated fat.
  4. Pre-thawed and discarded sticks are slightly crumbled in flour and immersed in batter. It should be thick enough, otherwise the whole mixture quickly drains from the product.
  5. Billets are dipped in boiling oil and fried until browned on all sides. A deep fat fryer and an ordinary frying pan are also suitable for this purpose. The latter option will save oil.

Ready meals are served to the table, both hot and cold. If desired, you can expand the sticks and stuff them with any filling before diving into the batter.

Good day to all! Today I want to touch upon a very interesting and tasty crab topic again. It would seem that absolutely everyone loves to cook salads from crab sticks.

But, our Russian people came up with such an interesting thing that everyone now constantly does as a snack for beer, or simply as a regular second dish. What are you doing from these sticks, what miracles do you do in the kitchen?

I think everyone guessed what I was talking about, today you will learn how to cook crab sticks in batter or as many more call in tempura.


It turns out there are a lot of ways to fry, you can make a batter from eggs, with lemon, sour cream, from kefir, milk, and even beer, or you can do without beer and without cheese, wrap in dough and make a pie. There are a lot of opportunities to make this gourmet, it turns out there are excellent options for children and dietary options. 😆

I will tell you about those variations that I liked.

But first, I want you to know how to choose the best, right, delicious crab sticks, determine the freshness of the product, and the video that I took from the famous TV program “Test purchase” will help in this matter:

This is the classic, easiest and most delicious cooking option for this dish. If it is decorated with something unusual, then it is quite possible to put it on the festive table and on the feast.


We will need:

  • Crab sticks  - pack of 200 g
  • Vegetable oil  - 1 tsp
  • Lemon - 1 pc.
  • Salt to taste
  • Ground black pepper  - taste
  • Egg - 3 pcs.
  • Flour - 2/3 Art.
  • Cow's milk or water  - 0.5 tbsp.

Cooking method:

1. Be sure to first remove the sticks from the freezer and thaw them at room temperature. Next, remove unnecessary plastic film, i.e. clean them. Add a little salt and pepper to your taste. Then sprinkle them with lemon juice, about 1 teaspoon will be needed. In this combination of products, let them stand for 20-30 minutes.


2. Now the most important thing is batter. It is also very easy to do. To do this, mix the flour with milk, and mix well so that there are no lumps. Instead of milk, you can use mineral water or plain water.

Separate the yolks from the proteins. Salt the yolks and pepper, beat with a little fork. Add this yolk mixture to flour.

Important! With mineral water it turns out divine and magnificent, no worse than with milk.


3. Well, immediately after dipping into the pan.

Important! Fry in a well-heated skillet for about 2-3 minutes until a pleasant, beautiful crust is on each side.


4. Here are some results:


Important! Want to get even batter? Then after you fry the first side of the stick, dip it in the batter again, and fry the other side.

What beauties and yummies turned out! Serve along with pickles, you can use any herbs, such as parsley or dill, for beauty. Bon appetit!

  How to cook crab sticks in breadcrumbs?

I think that it will immediately become clear to everyone that bread crumbs will add such a magical crunch to these handsome men. Tempura from them turns out simply delightful. What are the rules and cooking steps?

We will need:

  • crab sticks - 12 pcs. or packaging
  • chicken egg - 2 pcs.
  • mayonnaise - 2-3 tbsp
  • breadcrumbs - 5-6 tablespoons
  • wheat flour - 5 tbsp
  • cooking oil
  • salt and pepper to taste


Cooking method:

1. Mix all the ingredients on the batter list: egg, mayonnaise, flour and salt and pepper. If you do not have mayonnaise, then it can be replaced with sour cream or kefir.


2. Stir the resulting sauce, dip the sticks in it.


3. Then put the breadcrumbs in a plate and roll the crab in them)

Important! Breading can be used with different tastes, depending on which preferences you have and where you are preparing this appetizer. If you fry children, then it is better to do without additives, and use sour cream, rather than mayonnaise.


4. Heat the pan well, add vegetable oil and fry slowly.


5. These are the crunches, but at the same time they turned soft inside! Super class! This option is also called "Nimble crab sticks in batter" all because everything is very quickly and instantly prepared.


Serve them with mashed potatoes or french fries.

  Crab sticks in a batter with cheese

Cheese batter is the most common and popular option. Because it is cheese that goes well with this product.

We will need:

  • crab sticks - 300 g
  • hard cheese - 60 g
  • egg - 2 pcs.
  • mayonnaise - 1-2 tbsp
  • sour cream or kefir - 1 tablespoon
  • garlic - 1 clove
  • cooking oil

Important! Use chilled crab sticks, not frozen ones when creating a masterpiece 😛

Cooking method:

1. Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Pass the garlic through the press. Wow and the flavor went, I honestly really love the salad with mayonnaise, garlic and grated cheese. Tasty, you’ll lick your fingers. Have you tried this?



3. The final moment is frying. Heat a frying pan with oil and fry the sticks on both sides until there is a delicious golden crust.


4. Here is a gourmet on your table will appear after these simple and simple steps. Bon appetit!


  Beer crab sticks

This unusual beer option, which uses an alcoholic drink. Oddly enough, even though this is a beer batter, but this dish goes very well, like a beer snack. Fantasy! And you try, men just swallow from the table is a miracle.

We will need:

  • crab sticks - 1 pack of 200 g
  • hard cheese - 200 g
  • garlic - 2 cloves
  • mayonnaise - 2 tablespoons
  • vegetable oil for frying

Batter:

  • beer - 80 ml
  • water or mineral water - 70 ml
  • egg - 2pcs.
  • flour -100-110 g
  • salt and pepper to taste

Sauce:

  • sour cream - 200 g
  • lemon juice - 1 tsp
  • garlic - 2 cloves
  • greens, salt and pepper to taste

Cooking method:

1. Grate cheese on a grater, preferably on a shallow one. Pass the garlic through the garlic press, and mix with cheese and mayonnaise.


2. Defrost the sticks and remove the wrapper. Unroll them and put this cheese-garlic mixture, roll it again in a roll. For batter, mix cold mineral water or regular drinking water with beer and an egg, and gradually add flour to prevent lumps. Mix with a fork.


3. Dip the sticks in this liquid, and of course, immediately place them in a pan heated with vegetable oil. After frying on both sides until golden brown, put on a paper towel so that all excess fat is gone.


4. It is very tasty if there is also sour cream sauce on the table, of course, if you make this dish for beer, then you do not need to cook it. Sauce, gravy, pouring, you can call it whatever you like, it cooks quickly. Just mix sour cream with chopped garlic and lemon juice. Pepper and salt if you wish. For aroma, use finely chopped dill. The miracle of yummy is ready! Super cool snack, as my beloved men would say!


  Stuffed Crab Sticks with Cheese and Garlic

This dish is certainly very tasty, prepared from sticks and toppings. You can think of any filling. What stuffing do you put? Share the information in the comments. I often make stuffing without eggs, and when I have time, then, together with them, with cheese, garlic, as in this video from the YouTube channel:

We will need:

  • crab sticks - 7 pcs.
  • boiled egg - 1 pc.
  • cheese - 100 g
  • garlic - 1 clove
  • mayonnaise
  • cherry tomatoes - 7-8 pcs.
  • dill or other greens


Cooking method:

1. First, make a light filling of grated cheese and chopped garlic. Shuffle it all and add mayonnaise. Next, grate the boiled egg and add there.


2. Now expand the stick and put it here, as the filling is shown in the figure:


Roll back into a roll.

3. Cut each crab stick at an angle. Put in a circle on a plate, garnish with tomatoes and herbs. Note that you did without frying, which means it turned out more dietary, healthier and not scary to give children a try.


Honestly, this is a super cool appetizer that everyone will enjoy without exception. Unusual balls, or Raffaello, can also be made from these same ingredients. To build crab sticks, cheese, grate the egg, add chopped garlic, combine with mayonnaise, and voila, that’s what happened, beautyaaaaa!


P.S  I love pita bread, what can I say, so when I saw this recipe I just fell in love with it, I advise you to cook it too!

  Crab sticks in pita bread in a pan

It is not necessary to use a pan, you can also fry in a slow cooker, because the bowl is very deep in it and this will significantly reduce the spray. If you want to make this dish more useful, use the oven.

I suggest this version of crab sticks in batter and pita bread (lazy), see here:

That's all for me, as always, before communication in the next articles! Write your reviews, I will read them with pleasure. All the very best and good! Until!

Respectfully,

What would be so new to cook from crab sticks? The site already has original snacks, mouth-watering salads, and even Japanese rolls. Very tasty and beautiful dish - And then the idea came - crab sticks can be fried in batter! It turned out very, very tasty, it can be seen even in the photo.

I advise and highly recommend it! This is a simple recipe that does not require much time and special cooking skills. The dish is perfect for gatherings with friends or a light dinner. Appetizing crab sticks in a batter with cheese go well with vegetable salads and are good as a beer snack. The batter can be not only cheese, but also beer or egg. Stuffed crab sticks can also be fried in batter, it will turn out even tastier.

Ingredients:

chilled crab sticks 240 g (10 pieces)

hard cheese 100 g

2 eggs

wheat flour 2 tbsp. l

refined sunflower oil 200 ml

provence mayonnaise 2 tbsp. l

lemon 0.5 pcs.

small pinch of salt

black pepper

Servings Per Container: 5   Cooking time: 50 minutes




Recipe

    Step 1: Pickle Crab Sticks in Natural Lemon Juice

    Pre-thawed crab sticks clear of packaging. Put the sticks in a deep plate or bowl and pour them with the juice of half a lemon. Pepper a little crab sticks to give them a nice speck. Leave the sticks for 30 minutes so that they absorb the lemon juice and marinate.

    Step 2: beat eggs for batter

    While the crab sticks are pickling, we will prepare a batter with cheese for them. In a separate deep bowl, beat with a whisk two chicken eggs to a homogeneous consistency. It is not necessary to beat eggs for too long, the main thing is that the proteins and yolks mix well.

    Step 3: Add mayonnaise, salt and hot pepper to the beaten eggs

    Add a couple tablespoons of mayonnaise to the eggs. Salt and pepper the batter a little. Once again, mix everything with a whisk.

    Step 4: Add the grated hard cheese to the batter

    Grind a piece of cheese on a fine grater. Any kind of hard cheese you like will do.

    Add the cheese to the batter and mix it to a homogeneous consistency.

    Step 5: Put wheat flour in batter

    The last one to add to the batter is sifted wheat flour. It is needed quite a bit, a few tablespoons will be enough. Otherwise, the batter will become too thick.

    By consistency, it should resemble thick sour cream.

    Step 6: Dip the crab sticks in batter

    Each crab stick is completely lowered into the batter, so that it completely covers its surface. Try to keep the batter on the stick uniform and not too thick.

    Step 7: Fry the crab sticks in a batter in sunflower oil

    Pour sunflower oil, necessarily refined, onto a dry non-stick pan. When the oil is heated, gently lay in it the crab sticks in batter. On medium heat, fry the crab sticks until golden brown. Then, using a wooden spatula or two forks, flip the sticks to the other side. Let's wait until the crab sticks are fried on the other side.

    Step 8: Put the crab sticks on a napkin

    Put the finished fried crab sticks in cheese batter on a plate covered with paper napkins. They absorb all the excess oil, and the sticks will not be too greasy and oily.

    Step 9: Submission

    Crab sticks in a batter with cheese served warm. The original appetizer goes well with tomato or spicy white sauce, for example, sour cream. You can cook it yourself. It is necessary to mix sour cream, favorite fresh herbs, chopped garlic and add a little salt and hot pepper. Crab sticks can be laid out on lettuce leaves, garnished with fresh herbs, slices of fresh vegetables or thin slices of lemon.

    Bon Appetit!

The hostesses are constantly asking themselves: “What will I cook for lunch?” There may be many disagreements on this issue, but today the favorite dish is crab sticks in batter.

A simple but tasty appetizer on the table will complement other goodies, also a favorite dish of children, and with beer it replaces chips.

Batter recipes

With milk and eggs

Ingredients:

  • 2 eggs;
  • 150 ml of milk;
  • 100 g of flour;
  • Salt and pepper;
  • Vegetable or olive fats.

Cooking:

Egg batter for crabs looks like this - you need to separate the yolks with proteins and beat the first with salt. After the appearance of the froth, milk is added and whipping continues. Next, the dough is left for 20-25 minutes. After the proteins are introduced, continuing to beat.

Sticks are immersed in this batter. Fried in heated fat, in a deep container (or deep fat).

Cheesy

First you need to prepare crab sticks. After defrosting, peel them, spread them evenly on a plate, salt / pepper and squeeze a lemon on top. Leave in a cool place for half an hour (for the period of batter preparation).

Ingredients:

  • 300 g crabs;
  • 2 testicles;
  • 50 g of sour cream;
  • 80-100 g of wheat flour;
  • 100 g of cheese;
  • Lemon;
  • Salt and pepper;
  • Vegetable and olive oil.

Cooking:

For the mixture, beat the eggs by adding sour cream, then finely grated cheese, and finally flour. Batter done. Next, the crabs are dipped in it and fry in heated oil until a crust forms.

Beer

Ingredients:

  • 50-70 ml of beer;
  • 50-70 ml of water (in accordance with the dosage of beer);
  • 2 testicles;
  • A glass (without slide) of flour;
  • Salt and pepper.

Cooking:

Divide the eggs into squirrels and yolks - the first to put in a cold place, and the second to beat with salt. Pour in water and beer, continue whipping with a fork, sift the flour and mix the dough of sour cream consistency. Cold squirrels are whipped into a cool foam and added to the rest of the ingredients. Everything is mixed up.

Crabs are dipped in the dough and fried in heated oil.

Without eggs and milk

Ingredients:

  • Flour 1-2 cups;
  • Corn starch 1-2 tbsp. l;
  • Salt (to taste);
  • Water 1-2 tbsp. l;
  • Vegetable oil.

Cooking:

With cheese

The batter for this option can be the most diverse - starting from mixtures with eggs and ending with the option with beer.

Ingredients:

  • 300 g of crab sticks;
  • 200 g of hard or processed cheese;
  • 2 cloves of garlic (to taste);
  • Mayonnaise (to taste);
  • 150 ml of milk;
  • 100-150 g of flour;
  • Salt and pepper (to taste);
  • Oil for frying.