Crab sticks is a man-made product. It is made from surimi - ground fish meat of white varieties or fish protein. In appearance, they resemble meat from the claws of a crab, hence the name.

Naturally, this product has nothing to do with natural crab meat. Most of the sticks sold on the domestic market are made in China and the countries of the former USSR.

There are a number of similar products made on the basis of components that are not related to marine life at all: egg or soy protein, starch, colors and flavors.

Red rectangular crab sticks can be easily unwound like string cheese. Often it is this method that cooks use if they want to cook a cold appetizer in stuffed. Them as an ingredient (budget substitute for real crab meat) added to salads.

There are many options for toppings:

• Egg, cheese, garlic, mayonnaise;
• Shrimp, dill, melted cheese, egg, mayonnaise sauce;
• Cod liver, walnuts, eggs, sour cream;
• Fried mushrooms, shrimp, hard cheese, onion, egg;
• Rice, egg, fresh cucumber, mayonnaise;
• Rice, egg, canned pink salmon, green onion, refueling;
• Homemade cottage cheese, dill, sour cream.

Stuffed seafood is fried even in batter. It turns out delicious and unusual snack to the banquet table.

Stuffed crab sticks

The classic of this dish is the filling of farm cottage cheese, fresh dill And homemade sour cream. As you can see, you need minimum set products, but you get an unusual snack.

We take chilled sticks, carefully make an incision on the side with a fillet knife and unwind the product like a roll, pulling the edge. Do this slowly so as not to violate the integrity, otherwise stuffing will not work.

Some chefs recommend before use crab product dip in boiling water for a few seconds. So it will be softer and unfold without extra effort. But after cooling, the sticks will become stiff, all moisture will go away, so it's up to you to decide what to do in this situation.

Transfer the cottage cheese to a deep container, add pre-washed and chopped dill, salt and put sour cream. Knead the mass with a fork until homogeneous.

Put the filling on the unfolded edge with a small spoon and wind the roll, slightly crushing it so that the filling is well connected with the base. The roll will increase significantly in volume.

Lay out ready sticks on a flat dish.

You can build an imitation of the tower by distributing them into several tiers. Garnish with curly parsley and fresh cucumber.

Ruddy and appetizing appetizer in batter

In batter, not only meat, fish or vegetables are made, but an appetizer of crab sticks fried in a crispy shell. Not on every table you can see such an exotic thing - stuffed crab sticks in batter.

Components:

• Crab sticks - 350 g;
• Milk - 100 ml;
• Flour - 3 tbsp. l.;
• Breading - packaging;
• Vegetable (any) oil - 3 tbsp. l.;
• Eggs - 2 pcs.;
• Lemon - 0.5 pcs.;
• Salt - to taste;
• Spices - to taste.

Preparation: 60 minutes.

Calorie content: 132 Kcal / 100 g.

Defrost the product, remove the top film, put it in a bowl. We cut the lemon in half, make random holes in the pulp with a fork and squeeze the juice onto the sticks. We crush with specially selected spices and let marinate for about fifty minutes.

Beat the eggs into the milk, whisk lightly, add the flour a little at a time and mix immediately to make the liquid homogeneous.

Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it up. Dip marinated products in milk-flour batter, in breadcrumbs and let it fry. When you see nice crust, flip.

So we do it from all sides. Lay out on paper kitchen towels, then on a dish garnished with green lettuce.

How to cook cheese and garlic rolls

The most straightforward way to cook stuffed crab sticks. No need to invent anything, and even a teenage girl can handle it when mom is preparing a more serious dish. Components:

• Crab sticks - 250 g;
• Processed cheese - 3 pcs.;
• Garlic - 4 cloves;
• Egg - 2 pcs.;
• Salt - to taste;
• Homemade mayonnaise - 150 ml.

Preparation: 25 minutes.

Calorie content: 131 Kcal / 100 g.

Dip crab sticks in warm water after removing the protective film from them. Remove, spread on a towel and lightly dip. We make an incision and unfold.

Previously boiled hard-boiled eggs are peeled, chopped into small cubes or simply crushed with a fork. We clean the garlic and pass it through a press. We put the cheese in the freezer for five minutes, remove the foil and rub it on the fine grater.

If the melted cheese does not rub, soak it lightly in olive oil so the process goes faster.

We salt everything, add homemade mayonnaise and knead so that there are no gaps. Quite a long time ago, such a mass began to be called a squirrel or a swallow's nest. We put the prepared filling on the edge of the stick and slowly wrap it in a roll, stack it in a pile, crush it with dill, let it brew and soak for forty minutes.

Eggs stuffed with crab sticks

Stuffed eggs have always been a decoration and a delicious snack for any feast.

They are stuffed with pate canned fish, cod liver, crab sticks, figuratively cut out and spread on a dish.

Components:

• Crab sticks - 150 g;
• Eggs - 8 pcs.;
• Hard cheese - 100 g;
• Garlic - 3 cloves;
• Mayonnaise - to taste;
• Salt - to taste.

Preparation: 20 minutes.

Calorie content: 134 Kcal / 100 g.

Boil the eggs in well-salted water for ten to fifteen minutes to make it hard-boiled. We fill cold water, clean the shell, cut in half and take out the yolk. Any cheese durum varieties three. Peel the garlic and squeeze through a press.

WITH crab sticks remove the cellophane, cut lengthwise into several layers, then thin strips across. It is best to do this when they are not completely defrosted.

We mix the prepared products, pour in mayonnaise, it is better to use low-fat and knead everything. We take a teaspoon and put the filling in the middle of the egg, level it and insert a sprig of dill or parsley. Distribute nicely on a platter. You can decorate the plate with figuratively chopped lemon or lettuce leaves.

Culinary Tips

1. When choosing a semi-finished product, focus on its general condition. The sticks should be a bright pleasant color, elastic to the touch and, if not frozen, have a seafood smell;
2. Do not buy sticks that are kept in the refrigerator below seventeen degrees, they are frozen and good. taste properties will not differ;
3. If you notice ice and snow in the package, it means that it has been subjected to repeated freezing and thawing. Such a product is unsuitable for food;
4. If the date of manufacture is not clearly visible, blurred or completely erased, you do not need to buy such a product;
5. Before putting a fresh cucumber in the filling, remove the peel from it, it is often too rough, this will only spoil the delicate texture of the dish;
6. If you use as a filling canned salmon or cod liver, no need to drain the oil separately, mix everything with a fork and stuff.

Beautiful snacks to you and, of course, bon appetit!

original version cold appetizer- stuffed crab sticks. They are served at the table with the most different fillings. Such sticks are also very tasty in a crispy batter.

Ingredients: 80 g semi-hard cheese, 7 large chilled crab sticks, 2-4 garlic cloves, 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of light mayonnaise, salt.

1. The cheese is rubbed very finely and combined with crushed fresh garlic. Slightly salted mayonnaise is added.
2. Each stick is neatly untwisted. To make it easy, you need to choose a quality juicy and soft product.
3. The resulting layers are smeared with spicy cheese filling.
4. The blanks are rolled back.

The resulting crab sticks stuffed with cheese and garlic are served chilled to guests.

cod liver recipe

Ingredients: 9-11 juicy crab sticks, 130 g cod liver (canned), fine salt, 2 pre-boiled eggs, pepper mix, large processed cheese.

1. The cod liver is removed from the jar and kneaded well with a fork. To make the filling more tender and soft, you can add a little oil from the same container to it.
2. Finely grated eggs and melted cheese are sent to the liver. To make it convenient to grind the latter, it is worth freezing it first.
3. The filling is thoroughly mixed, salted and peppered to taste. Some chefs also add light mayonnaise or sour cream to it. But these are optional ingredients.
4. Chilled sticks are carefully unfolded and smeared with the mixture from the previous step. Then they fold back and go to the cold for about an hour.

Appetizing appetizer in batter

Ingredients: 290 g chilled crab sticks, 1 small. a spoonful of lemon juice, processed cheese, mayonnaise, fresh dill, salt, a couple of cloves of garlic, freshly ground black pepper, a large egg, 80 g of sifted flour, 90 ml of non-cold milk, a pinch of baking soda.

1. First you need to do batter. Non-cold milk is poured into a convenient bowl. It dissolves salt, soda and pepper. Next, a slightly beaten egg and sifted flour are added. The latter is poured in small portions.
2. After thorough mixing, a sufficiently thick batter should appear in the container.
3. For the filling, melted cheese is finely rubbed, mayonnaise, chopped dill and crushed fresh garlic. The mass is salted and peppered to taste.
4. Crab sticks are carefully unfolded, smeared with filling and wrapped back with a roll. Each individual blank is cut into 2 parts.
5. Pieces of sticks are dipped in batter and fried on both sides in hot oil. Ready snack laid out on napkins to remove excess oil.

The resulting crab sticks in batter are also served chilled to guests.

Stuffing crab sticks with sprats

Ingredients: 160 g sprats in oil, 16-17 chilled crab sticks, garlic clove, processed cheese, 3 large boiled eggs, salt, light mayonnaise.

1. The sticks are carefully unwound and prepared for stuffing.
2. Boiled eggs and cheese are crushed with a medium grater. Salted mayonnaise with chopped garlic is added to these ingredients. The filling mixes well.
3. Sticks are smeared with the resulting cheese-egg mixture. A fish without oil is placed on top of each of them.

Stuffed sticks are placed on a flat plate, covered with cling film and for some time they are cleaned in a cold place.

With mushrooms

Ingredients: 28 soft juicy crab sticks, 2 pcs. onion, 3 large boiled eggs, half a kilo fresh champignons, a handful of crackers, mayonnaise, salt.

1. Onions and mushrooms are randomly chopped. The smaller their pieces turn out, the tastier the finished snack will be.
2. Onions and mushrooms are fried in hot oil until tender. The mass is salted. You can add any seasonings to your taste.
3. Finely grated eggs and mayonnaise are mixed with the onion-mushroom mass.
4. Chilled sticks are carefully unfolded into even layers and evenly covered with the filling from the previous step.
5. The blanks are rolled back into rolls.
6. Each stick is smeared with mayonnaise, rolled in breadcrumbs on all sides and well fried in the oil left after the preparation of the filling.

The ready-made appetizer can be served both cold and hot. The sticks are cut obliquely in half, decorated with fresh dill and served at the table.

With melted cheese and egg

Ingredients: 260 g crab sticks, a small bunch of fresh dill, light mayonnaise, a large boiled egg, 90 g processed cheese, 2-3 cloves of garlic, salt.

1. The cheese is briefly removed into the freezer, after which it is rubbed on a grater with medium or large holes.
2. Dill is washed, dried and finely chopped with a sharp knife.
3. Garlic is peeled and passed through a press.
4. The boiled egg is finely rubbed.
5. All prepared components of the future filling are combined and seasoned with salted mayonnaise.
6. Expanded sticks are filled with the mixture and again twisted into neat rolls.

This lightweight and fast option snacks from a small number of ingredients will decorate any festive table. To make the dish tasty, buy high-quality crab sticks from a trusted brand. The easiest thing to do is to stuff them with cheese and an egg.

Other types of fillings:

• fried champignons with hard cheese;

• fried shrimp with garlic;

• cod liver with boiled eggs;

• sprats;

• melted cheese and fresh herbs.

For beauty and additional taste, you can put a thin long bar on the filling. fresh cucumber or red bell pepper(as in rolls) and fold the roll so that the cut cucumber is in the middle.

Ingredients:

crab sticks 240 g (10 pcs.)

chicken egg 1 pc.

hard cheese (Dutch, Russian, sour cream) 100 g

garlic 2 cloves

mayonnaise "Provencal" 3-4 tbsp. l.

shallow salt pinch

fresh parsley a few branches

lettuce leaves for serving 3-4 pcs.

Servings: 5 Cooking time: 30 minutes

Recipe

Step 1: Hard boil the chicken egg

First, boil the egg for the filling. Dip the egg in a bucket of cold water. Put the bucket on medium fire. After the egg boils, boil it for 9-10 minutes. Then pour boiling water from the ladle and pour cold water over the egg so that it cools completely. Peel the egg and grate on a fine grater.



Step 2: Three Hard Cheese

Grate a piece of hard cheese too. It is better to grind it on a fine grater so that the filling is homogeneous and tender. Then crab sticks will be more convenient to stuff.



Step 3: Mix the filling ingredients

Mix grated boiled egg and hard cheese. Add two cloves of garlic, passed through a press and Provencal mayonnaise.



Salt the filling a little and mix until a homogeneous thick mass. If desired, a pinch of ground black pepper can be added to the filling to give it a little spiciness.



Step 4: Preparing the Crab Sticks

Let's take them out of the packaging. Now we need to carefully unfold the crab sticks so that they can be stuffed. This can be done in several ways:

1) crab sticks must first be thawed, you can even get them out of the refrigerator the night before. Ideally they should be room temperature. Thawed sticks need to be squeezed a little to find the fold from which to begin to unfold them.

2) if the sticks do not unfold well or you do not have time for a long defrost, crab sticks can be dipped for 30 seconds in hot water. The sticks will become more elastic and easily unfold.

3) you can also slightly warm the crab sticks over the steam. The last outer layer will be slightly scalded and easily separated from the stick.

4) heavily frozen semi-finished products can be put in boiling water and boiled for 30 seconds. Then carefully remove them from the water with a slotted spoon. In this case, from hot water, they will open themselves. It remains only to cool them a little and dry them with a napkin.

Step 5: Stuff the Crab Sticks

On each unfolded crab stick lay out the filling. It should completely cover the surface with a thin layer.

Crab sticks are a dish that can be served in the in a variety of ways. The sticks can be thawed, cut and served immediately. So they will become great snack. They can be cut, mixed with other ingredients and get a delicious and hearty salad. But there is another way to cook crab sticks - this is stuffing.

Stuffing chopsticks is pretty easy, and this dish won't hit your budget too hard. The filling is formed from your favorite ingredients. It can be eggs, vegetables, meat, cheese products and so on. The easiest option tasty snack These are crab sticks stuffed with cheese and garlic. Cheese will add spice to the dish, and garlic will add spice.

An appetizer of crab sticks, cheese and other ingredients is prepared very quickly. The dish will be a real salvation for those who have unexpectedly been visited by guests. And you can cook an appetizer based on the recipes below.

Crab sticks stuffed with cheese and garlic

Product List:

• Cheese - two hundred and fifty grams.
• Crab sticks - five hundred grams.
• Eggs - six pieces.
• Garlic - two cloves.
• Mayonnaise.

Cooking

The first thing to do is to take the crab sticks out of the refrigerator and leave them to defrost. During this time, prepare the filling. Place the eggs in cold water and put on fire. When the water boils, boil for one minute over high heat, then reduce the heat and cook for another eight to nine minutes. Then cool them and remove the shell. Peel the eggs and separate the whites from the yolks. Grate separately on a grater into different dishes. Cheese also pass through a grater.

In a bowl, combine the prepared filling ingredients - cheese, proteins, garlic and mayonnaise - and stir. Now you need to slowly and carefully unfold all the crab sticks so as not to damage them. Put a thin layer of filling on each of the sticks and roll into tubes. Then apply mayonnaise on the sticks and sprinkle with grated yolks. Crab sticks stuffed with cheese and garlic are ready. It remains only to beautifully put them on the table. On big dish put lettuce leaves and lay crab sticks on top in combination with any vegetables of your choice.

Crab sticks stuffed with melted cheese, herbs and garlic

If some time ago such a dish as stuffed crab sticks was exotic, now there is a large number of recipes with crab sticks. Except traditional salad from them you can cook a lot of interesting and completely different snacks. Consider one of these recipes for crab sticks stuffed with cheese and garlic, and processed cheese.

Ingredients:

• Eggs - three pieces.
• Processed cheese "Friendship" - three hundred and fifty grams.
• Crab sticks - four hundred grams.
• Cheese - one hundred and fifty grams.
• Garlic - five cloves.
• Mayonnaise.

Preparing an appetizer

If the sticks have just been taken out of the freezer, they need to be put in a warm place until they are completely defrosted. In the event that there is a need, this process can be accelerated by pouring crab sticks with cold water. While defrosting is in progress, you need to prepare the filling.

Hard boil eggs. They should boil no more than nine minutes, otherwise the eggs will lose their taste qualities. Dip them in cold water, let them cool completely and remove the shell from them. Prepare a capacious dish, in which, in turn, place hard cheese, eggs, garlic grated on a fine grater and pour mayonnaise and gently mix all the ingredients.

Then carefully, so as not to damage the crab sticks, unfold them and lay out the prepared stuffing in an even layer, and wrap. Crab sticks stuffed with cheese and garlic, with the addition of processed cheese are ready. The appetizer is spicy, with a little spicy taste. It is necessary to beautifully serve with vegetables and herbs and serve.

Stuffed crab sticks with herbs and onions

Required products:

• Hard cheese - five hundred grams.
• Processed cheese - one hundred grams.
• Green onion - a bunch.
• Garlic - five cloves.
• Fresh dill - bunch.
• Crab sticks - twenty pieces.
• Mayonnaise - three hundred grams.
• Eggs - three pieces.

Cooking a dish

Crab sticks are sold in two types: chilled and frozen. If a chilled product was purchased to prepare a snack, then you can immediately start cooking. Otherwise, the sticks must be thawed, and only then it will be possible to unfold them, and then fill them with stuffing.

To prepare the filling, rub the Druzhba processed cheese, hard cheese, garlic, finely chopped dill and onion through a grater into a bowl and add one hundred and fifty grams of mayonnaise. Mix all components together. Hard boil three eggs separately. Allow to cool, remove the shell and pass through a grater. Apply a thin layer of the prepared stuffing to the carefully unfolded crab sticks and roll back into tubes.

Lay the first layer stuffed tubules on a dish, grease with the remaining mayonnaise and sprinkle with grated eggs. Repeat the process with all sticks. Decorate the last layer with greenery. Stuffed crab sticks appetizer is ready. If desired, it can be placed in the refrigerator and served chilled.

Stuffed crab sticks with chicken, cheese and eggs

You can diversify the table not only snacks stuffed crab sticks. If you add meat to the filling, you will get not only tasty and original dish, but still quite nutritious and satisfying. Preparing this appetizer is quite simple. What do you need to prepare this recipe with crab sticks?

Required products:

• Crab sticks - half a kilo.
• Boiled chicken meat - three hundred grams.
• Eggs - three pieces.
• Cheese - two hundred and fifty grams.
• Garlic - two cloves.
• Mayonnaise.
• Salt.

Let's start cooking

Before you start preparing the filling, you need to prepare crab sticks. There are several options for how to defrost them faster. The sticks can be placed in the microwave for five minutes, after removing the film from them and folding them into glassware. Can be soaked in cold water, as well as douse with steam.

If time is not limited, then you can simply put them on the table and let them gradually defrost. We are preparing the stuffing. Sliced ​​pre-cooked chicken small pieces. Hard boil eggs, cool, peel and pass through a grater. On coarse grater grate cheese.

Place all ingredients in a bowl, add garlic, mayonnaise, salt and stir. The filling is ready. To the question of how to deploy crab sticks, there is only one answer. Carefully, slowly, so as not to tear or damage. On the expanded sticks evenly, not in a thick layer, place the prepared stuffing. Roll into rolls and put on a prepared dish. Decorate with vegetables and sprinkle with herbs. This dish will be a table decoration.

Crab sticks stuffed with mushrooms, cheese, eggs and shrimps

There are a large number of recipes for stuffing crab sticks. From simple, consisting of one or two ingredients, to complex, which include three, four or more components. The composition of the filling depends on your imagination and on taste preferences. Crab sticks, stuffed with stuffing from mushrooms, cheese and shrimp, are savory, tasty and nutritious.

Required products:

• Crab sticks - one kilogram.
• Cheese - three hundred grams.
• Mushrooms - three hundred grams.
• Shrimps - three hundred grams.
• Onions - two heads.
• Eggs - four pieces.
• Mayonnaise.
• Greenery.
• Salt.
• Pepper.

Cooking stuffed crab sticks

Put the frozen crab sticks in a warm place and start preparing the filling. Wash mushrooms well and cut into small pieces. Put the mushrooms in a preheated and oiled pan and fry, stirring constantly until tender. Pour the eggs with cold water, bring to a boil and cook for eight minutes. Cool, remove the shell and grate. Separate the onion from the husk, rinse, chop into small cubes and simmer for sunflower oil until slightly golden.

Place the shrimp in boiling water, boil for a couple of minutes and drain the water. After cooling, cut them into small pieces. Rub the cheese through a grater. Rinse the parsley and finely chop. Place all the ingredients prepared for the filling in a bowl, add mayonnaise, salt and pepper. Mix carefully. Unroll the thawed crab sticks slowly and apply a thin, even layer of cheese, shrimp, mushrooms and eggs on them. Shape them into rolls and place on beautiful dish, garnished with vegetables and sprinkled with herbs. In addition to originality, this dish is different piquant taste. Also, such an appetizer will quickly satisfy hunger.

Crab sticks are a popular product, it is used mainly for preparing snack dishes. One of the options appetizing snack- stuffed crab sticks. It is not difficult to prepare them, but the dish turns out to be tasty and original, because you can use different fillings.

First of all, you need to buy good crab sticks. This product is produced by many manufacturers, but not all products are of excellent quality. Please read the ingredients list before purchasing. Its basis should be minced fish- surimi. Therefore, this ingredient should come first in the list of ingredients. If it is listed second or third, then the fish in the product minimal amount. And the basis is soy protein and starch.

Pay attention also to appearance. The sticks must be white, painted red or pink color. But there should be no gray or yellow spots on them.

To stuff the sticks, they need to be unrolled. To do this as carefully as possible, follow the recommendations:

• If possible, use chilled rather than frozen crab sticks;
• If this is not possible, then the sticks should be allowed to completely thaw at room temperature;
• then you need to gently squeeze the stick from the sides, then on the cut you can see its layered structure;
• dip the sticks in hot water for 30 seconds, this will make them more elastic and easier to unfold;
• we begin to unfold the stick from the last fold located on the outside.

The unfolded stick is smeared with stuffing and wrapped again. So that the sticks do not unfold, they need to be put in the cold for a while. It takes 30-60 minutes of cooling.

Then stuffed sticks cut into several pieces, making an incision obliquely. As a rule, the appetizer is served without heat treatment, but some recipes provide for subsequent batter frying.

Interesting Facts! Crab sticks are an invention of Japanese technologists. Crabs are often used in the cuisine of this country. But this product is expensive, so in 1973 a cheap "analogue" was put on sale. In our country, crab sticks appeared in the early 90s.

Crab sticks stuffed with cheese and garlic

Cooking crab sticks stuffed with garlic is not difficult at all. The dish turns out simple, but it can be effectively served.

• 15 crab sticks;
• 400 gr. cheese;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 5-6 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• 2-3 branches of dill;
• 2-3 green onion feathers;
• lettuce leaves for serving.

Grate the cheese on a fine grater. We cut off about a fourth part. To the side. And the rest of the cheese is mixed with chopped garlic. We wash the green onions and parsley, finely chop the greens. Add to cheese filling. We fill the mass with mayonnaise. You don’t need to add a lot of sauce, mayonnaise is used for binding, products should not float in the sauce. Let's try the stuffing. If the cheese is used unsalted, then you can add a little salt, but usually there is enough salt in the products used.

• 8 crab sticks;
• sprigs of dill for serving;
• 100 gr. cottage cheese;
• 1 tablespoon of sour cream;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 2 sprigs of dill and parsley;
• salt and pepper to taste.

We grind the cottage cheese or punch it with a blender, the product should be homogeneous. Add sour cream, grated garlic and finely chopped greens, mix and season with pepper and salt.

Advice! To prepare this dish, you can use cottage cheese of any fat content, but it is best to use cottage cheese with 9% fat. If there is only skim cheese you can add a little butter to the filling.

We unfold the crab sticks, trying not to damage them. Lubricate curd filling and roll up again. We put the stuffed sticks in the refrigerator for several hours. To prevent the food from drying out, cover the dishes with them with cling film.

Then cut in half crosswise, running a knife at an angle. Should be an oblique cut. We put the sticks vertically with oblique slices up. We decorate each copy with a small sprig of dill.

Read also: Champignons in batter - 7 recipes (+ sauces)

Crab sticks with fresh cucumber

In this version of the recipe, the filling is prepared with cucumber, this vegetable gives it a fresh taste.

• 12 pcs. crab sticks;
• 1 fresh cucumber;
• 3 eggs;
• 100 gr. hard cheese;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1-2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• salt, black ground pepper taste.

Boil and cool the eggs ahead of time. We rub on a grater hard cheese And boiled eggs mix and add minced garlic. It is best to finely chop the garlic with a knife. When using a garlic press, the taste of the snack will deteriorate somewhat.

Add some mayonnaise to the mixture. Do not overdo it with the sauce, otherwise the filling will “float”, which will make the appetizer less appetizing. We try, if necessary, season with salt and pepper.

Now you need to cut the cucumber. It is better to clean the skin from it. And then cut the vegetable into sticks. The length of the bar should be equal to the length of the crab stick, and the cross section should be approximately 5 x 5 mm.

We unfold the crab sticks. On the edge of the resulting tape, lay out a layer of filling 3 cm wide and 0.5 cm thick. Put a cucumber bar in the center of the laid out strip of filling. We wrap the crab stick with a tight roll. We cut the stick into 3-4 parts and put the slices up on the dish.

cod liver recipe

Delicious and original snack- crab sticks stuffed with cod liver. Buy natural liver for this dish, not canned pâté.

• 10 crab sticks;
• 115 gr. cod liver;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 processed cheese;
• salt, pepper to taste.

Boil the eggs in advance and cool, pour cold water. Remove the liver from the jar and mash with a fork. Add eggs, grated on the smallest grater. If the mixture is a little dry, pour a little oil from the jar. Add grated processed cheese to the mass, season with pepper, if necessary, add salt.

Carefully unfold the crab sticks. Lubricate the resulting “ribbons with the prepared filling and roll them up again. We put the prepared snack in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Before serving, you can cut each stick into 2-3 parts.

Crab sticks stuffed with canned fish

You can use it as a filling for crab sticks. It is best to choose canned food prepared in own juice. You can use saury, pink salmon, mackerel.

• 10-12 crab sticks;
• 1 can of canned fish (250 gr.);
• 1 onion;
• 3 eggs;
• sprigs of greens for serving.

We open canned fish from a jar, knead it with a fork, choosing large bones. Hard-boil eggs, cool, grate. The onion needs to be cut very finely. We mix the prepared products, season with a small amount of mayonnaise.

Advice! For the preparation of this appetizer, it is better to use white onions. If there is only onion, then it must be cut and scalded with boiling water to make the taste less harsh.

Carefully and slowly unfold the crab sticks. We apply the prepared filling. We roll up with a tight roll. We put the stuffed sticks in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours in a closed container. Then we take it out, cut it in half or into three parts, put it on a dish. We decorate with greenery