Step 1: prepare the potatoes.

Using a knife, peel the potatoes and then thoroughly rinse the ingredient under running warm water. Immediately after that, put the potatoes on a cutting board and cut them into small pieces with a knife. We put the chopped vegetable into a saucepan and fill the container with water so that it completely covers the ingredient. After that, put the pan on medium heat and wait for the water to boil. After - using a slotted spoon, remove the foam that has formed on the surface of the liquid, and now make the fire less than medium, cover the container with a lid and cook the potatoes for 25-35 minutes depending on the type of vegetable. At the end of the allotted time, check the readiness of the potatoes with a fork. If the potato pieces have become soft and easily pierced with improvised equipment, then the potatoes are ready and you can turn off the burner. Holding with kitchen tacks, slightly open the lid of the pot, drain the water through the hole formed directly into the sink. We can transfer the potatoes themselves with a tablespoon into a deep bowl. And now with the help of a pusher we crush the potatoes to a state of mashed potatoes. Attention: it is necessary to ceiling the boiled vegetable in such a way that lumps form as little as possible. Set the mashed potatoes aside to cool to room temperature.

Step 2: prepare the crab sticks.

Frozen crab sticks are taken out of the refrigerator in advance and set aside to defrost to room temperature. After that, remove the protective film from the ingredient and put it on a cutting board. In order not to stretch the process of preparing crab sticks with a knife, we will use a coarse grater and simply grind the component to a state of shavings. We get quite large pieces. After that, with clean hands, we shift the seafood to a free plate.

Step 3: prepare hard cheese.

Hard cheese as well as crab sticks, grind with a coarse grater. After - immediately transfer the ingredient to a free plate.

Step 4: Prepare the Carrots

Using a knife, peel the carrots and then thoroughly rinse the ingredient under running warm water. Then, using a fine grater, chop the vegetable and transfer it to a clean plate.

Step 5: Cook Potato Cutlets with Crab Sticks.

In a bowl with mashed potatoes, add chopped crab sticks, hard cheese, and carrots. After that, break the shell and add the egg to the same container. At the end, salt and pepper our mixture to taste. Using a tablespoon, mix everything well until a homogeneous mass is formed. Then pour the breadcrumbs into the bowl. With clean, but always wet (so that the minced potato does not stick), we collect a small amount of potato mass with our hands and form a cutlet out of it. After that, roll the cutlet in breadcrumbs on all sides and for now set it aside on a cutting board. And now we repeat the procedure from the beginning and so on until we run out of minced potato. We put a pan with a small amount of oil on medium heat and wait until the oil warms up well. After that, we make the fire less than medium and carefully place the cutlets in a container with our hands at a short distance from each other. Fry the dish on both sides until golden brown. And so that the cutlets do not burn at the base, from time to time we check the degree of readiness by lifting the cutlets with a wooden spatula from the bottom edge. Transfer the finished potato cutlets with crab sticks to a serving dish. Attention: if necessary, add a small amount of vegetable oil to the pan and again put a new batch of dish in the container.

Step 6: serve potato cutlets with crab sticks.

The finished dish, while it is still hot, can and should be served at the table. For a more aesthetic appearance, potato cutlets can be sprinkled with finely chopped green onions. Well, you can treat your relatives with a dish along with sour cream, any favorite sauce, as well as a cup of hot tea. Potato cutlets with crab sticks are very tasty and fragrant, and most importantly - very satisfying, so they can be safely put on the table as a main course. Good appetite!

- - Instead of crab sticks, chopped crab meat can be added to minced potato, as it goes a little juicier and will give potato cutlets more aroma and satiety.

- - In addition to green onions, the dish can be decorated with finely chopped parsley and dill.

- - If you are not sure what kind of potato you have, then during the cooking process it is better to add a little salt so that the vegetable is better boiled.

- - It is best to use frozen seafood rather than chilled, as it tends to be denser in texture and therefore will taste better in the dish itself.

Cooking crab stick casserole with potatoes:

Since crab sticks are not subject to long heat treatment, the potatoes must first either be boiled or fried. But, frying is tastier, but boiling is healthier. See for yourself who is closer to the soul and stomach. I'm going to fry potatoes like this in circles.

Fry also separately carrots with onions. Visually divide this entire portion of fried potatoes and carrots with onions into three parts and put on the bottom of the baking dish, alternating it with chopped crab sticks - a layer of potatoes - a layer of carrots - a layer of crab sticks, etc.

Now we will prepare the sauce from mayonnaise, lemon juice and a small amount of water, with which we will pour our potato-crab structure.

And at the end of the preparatory work, sprinkle everything on top with grated cheese. Everything, now you can set to bake. The oven, according to the rules, we preheat to 200 degrees, and when it heats up, we put our workpiece in it. After 20 minutes, your eyes will see the most delicate creation, which is also incomparable in taste.

The dish will turn out so tender that for some time it will have to stand on the table to cool a little. If you try to lay out the casserole on plates immediately from the oven, then it will fall apart and you will get an incomprehensible mess. Let it stand on the table for 10 minutes - and it will not cool down, and the taste will be what you need!

And, of course, greens! When serving, it is desirable / mandatory to sprinkle the casserole with dill or parsley.

The appetizer "Potatoes with Crab Sticks" comes from my student youth, that very period of my life when there is no money, I want to eat and I also want a beautiful life, in fact, I also want it, especially if you are a student, not a student. In general, the recipe arose due to lack of money, paired with the desire to eat deliciously, and got its shape thanks to the desire for beauty. Without this desire, its preparation takes about 50 minutes (depending on how long you cook the potatoes, and the cook will have 20 minutes to work. To make it beautiful, it will take more time.

Products: 400 gr. boiled potatoes - 100 gr. crab sticks, 1 tbsp. mayonnaise and salt to taste. For decoration, you can use yellow or red bell peppers, this is optional and available. It is advisable to take small potatoes: they cook and cool faster. Well, you also need water to boil potatoes.

Boil potatoes in uniforms until tender.

While the potatoes are cooking, chop the crab sticks as finely as possible. Now I do it with a chopper, as a student I did it with a knife.

If sweet pepper is used, then it is also cut. It can be into small-small cubes, it can be into thin sticks. These will be the stamens of the flowers.

We clean the potatoes while they are HOT, and immediately rub them through the finest grater. Who has a potato press with small holes, use the press calmly.

We mix the dough from hot grated potatoes, finely chopped crab sticks, a tablespoon of mayonnaise and salt to taste. The potato appetizer with crab sticks is essentially ready. In particularly harsh conditions, we spread it on bread. ;) The remaining options are already mannered, for a "rich" feast.

We divide the dough into two halves, each of these halves into two more halves, and each of the quarters into two halves. In such a simple way, we get 16 pieces.

The easiest way to make crab stick potato appetizer is to simply roll the dough into balls.

But if there is time and a desire to make it prettier, then either a very small teaspoon is used, or confectioners and sculptors even have some special tools for this purpose. Our university was not art, so we managed with a spoon. So, we flatten the ball slightly and press five petals into it with a spoon.

Well, and each petal is, as it were, cut off from the neighboring ones along the side.

And the finishing touch - we stick the stamens!

Here are the flowers we get.

You can use them as an independent snack, you can decorate anything, even salads, even hot ones.

Fried potatoes are a very tasty dish in and of themselves, and it seemed that it could no longer be supplemented with anything to get new taste sensations, but, fortunately, this is not the case! Try this tender and crumbly baby fried potato with ham and crab sticks and you won't want to cook it any other way. Seafood saturates the dish with incredible flavors that permeate your entire kitchen when cooked.

Let's try to create such a delicious dish together. Prepare the necessary ingredients.

Potatoes take the longest to cook according to the recipe, so immediately peel them with light movements of the knife and rinse in water. Cut in half and then into slices.

Try to cut new potatoes as quickly as possible, as they darken very quickly when exposed to air.

Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat it until red. Place the chopped potatoes in a frying pan and salt it, stirring immediately so that it is all saturated with fat.

Fry the chopped root crop for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. At this time, cut the ham into strips and add to the pan to the potatoes.

2-3 minutes before turning off, when the potatoes are almost completely fried, cut the crab sticks into circles and add to the pan. Mix and cover with a lid.

We simmer 2-3 minutes. You will see how the slices of sticks will become twice as magnificent. Just then add chopped green onions and mix again. Turn off the heat and let the potatoes soak in the freshness of the greens.

If desired, a beaten chicken egg can also be poured into fried potatoes with ham and crab sticks.

We spread the prepared side dish on plates and taste it.