Crab sticks in our time have become a very popular ingredient in the composition of dishes and snacks on our holiday tables. They can be eaten as a separate product, or you can cook some kind of dish; there are plenty of recipes containing them in their composition. I have long wanted to cook festive snack stuffed crab sticks, there is a suitable recipe, today we will do it.
Let's prepare crab sticks stuffed with cottage cheese, I decided to add salmon to the cottage cheese, which is not necessary. You can simply stuff them with salted cottage cheese, with the addition of sour cream and herbs - it will be tasty and economical, the option with salmon, of course, is more expensive. The version of this dish with sour cream seemed to me tender, but a little fresh, you can use mayonnaise instead of sour cream.
As for the choice of chopsticks for snacks, try to take those that contain more surimi - this is the fish mixture used to produce the product. Accordingly, the higher the content of surimi, the better they should be.
Of course, pay attention to how they are made - it should be clear that the sticks are not pressed, but rolled, otherwise, how are we going to stuff them? Many people advise taking the chilled version, but I always take frozen ones and defrost them in boiling water - they unwind perfectly, do not break, and generally become more elastic, easy to process.
In general, I like this holiday appetizer for its speed of preparation, simplicity, low cost of ingredients, attractive festive appearance and, of course, taste. Now I will cook often and try other fillings for stuffing, of which there can be a lot, connect your imagination and cook different options. Let's get started...
Ingredients
- frozen sticks, I have Vici (500 g)
- cottage cheese 5% (100-400 g), the amount depends on the availability of salmon
- slightly salted salmon (300 g) - optional
- sour cream or mayonnaise (3 tbsp)
- greenery
- salt - to taste
How to cook stuffed crab sticks
Training
1. To begin with, let's decide how we will stuff - with or without salmon. If with salmon - then cottage cheese will need 100-150 g, if without, we take 400 g. We clean the sticks from the wrappers, put them in a saucepan and pour boiling water over them. After they stand for 5-10 minutes, drain the water and put it on a paper or just a clean towel to drain excess liquid.
Cooking stuffing from cottage cheese and salmon
2. Let's deal with the stuffing for stuffing snacks - spread the cottage cheese, add mayonnaise or sour cream to it, add some salt and beat with a mixer for uniformity. Finely chop the fish, put in cottage cheese, mix. Finely chop the greens, send to the cottage cheese and salmon, again mix everything properly. The filling of cottage cheese and salmon is ready!
stuffing
3. Unfold the stick, put on its inner side (without red on top) a teaspoon with a slide of cottage cheese and salmon filling, evenly distribute to the middle and begin to roll. Roll rather tight, but carefully so as not to tear, and put the finished stuffed holiday appetizer on a plate or on a board.
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 there is a minimum amount of fish in the product. And the basis is soy protein and starch.
Pay attention to the appearance too. The sticks should be white, painted red or pink on top. 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 the stuffed sticks are 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 green onion 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. stuffed sticks put 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: Stuffed pita bread - 8 recipes with different fillings
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. Grate hard cheese and boiled eggs, mix and add chopped 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 eggs in advance and cool 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 sharp.
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
original version cold appetizer- stuffed crab sticks. They are served at the table with a variety of toppings. 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.
Delicious appetizer for the holiday table.
- The cheese is rubbed very finely and combined with crushed fresh garlic. Slightly salted mayonnaise is added.
- Each stick is neatly untwisted. To make it easy, you need to choose a quality juicy and soft product.
- The resulting layers are smeared with spicy cheese filling.
- 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, a mixture of peppers, large processed cheese.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 baking soda.
Hearty and light snack. - 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.
- After thorough mixing, a sufficiently thick batter should appear in the container.
- For the filling, melted cheese is finely rubbed, mayonnaise, chopped dill and crushed fresh garlic are added to it. The mass is salted and peppered to taste.
- Crab sticks are carefully unfolded, smeared with filling and wrapped back with a roll. Each individual blank is cut into 2 parts.
- Pieces of sticks are dipped in batter and fried on both sides in hot oil. The finished snack is 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.
- The sticks are carefully unwound and prepared for stuffing.
- Boiled eggs and cheese are crushed with a medium grater. Salted mayonnaise with chopped garlic is added to these ingredients. The filling mixes well.
- 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 put away for a while in a cold place.
With mushrooms
Ingredients: 28 soft juicy crab sticks, 2 pcs. onions, 3 large boiled eggs, a pound of fresh champignons, a handful of crumbs, mayonnaise, salt.
Can be served cold and hot. - Onions and mushrooms are randomly chopped. The smaller their pieces turn out, the tastier the finished snack will be.
- Onions and mushrooms are fried in hot oil until tender. The mass is salted. You can add any seasonings to your taste.
- Finely grated eggs and mayonnaise are mixed with the onion-mushroom mass.
- Chilled sticks are carefully unfolded into even layers and evenly covered with the filling from the previous step.
- The blanks are rolled back into rolls.
- 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.
Ready appetizer can be served both cold and hot.
With cottage cheese and herbs
Ingredients: 8-9 pcs. crab sticks, a bunch of fresh parsley and dill, 110 g of cottage cheese, a large spoonful of fat sour cream, salt, a mixture of ground colored peppers, 1 tooth. fresh garlic.
- Cottage cheese with a fork is thoroughly rubbed with fat sour cream. Finely chopped greens and crushed garlic are added to the future filling. The amount of the latter must be adjusted to the taste of all households. The filling is salted and peppered.
- Each crab stick is neatly unfolded. The filling is laid out on the resulting layers in small portions.
- The blanks are folded into even rolls.
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.
Suitable for a quick snack. - The cheese is briefly removed into the freezer, after which it is rubbed on a grater with medium or large holes.
- Dill is washed, dried and finely chopped with a sharp knife.
- Garlic is peeled and passed through a press.
- The boiled egg is finely rubbed.
- All prepared components of the future filling are combined and seasoned with salted mayonnaise.
- Expanded sticks are filled with the mixture and again twisted into neat rolls.
Stuffed crab sticks are delicious treat. You can serve this dish for breakfast or light dinner make a gourmet snack festive table or simply serve as an alternative to beer chips. Depending on what the sticks are stuffed with, you can get different tastes and new dishes.
Helpful Hints:
To cook a dish successfully, you need to be able to carefully unfold, and then wrap the stick. To do this, you need to defrost them: just leave them at room temperature.
Start the turn from the place where the last outer fold is located.
If there are any difficulties, then you can fill the product for half a minute hot water. The structure of the product will become more elastic and the stick will be easy to deploy.
You can also hold the product over the steam, this will help you quickly see the place where you need to start unrolling the stick.
The filling can be different and it is on this that the selection of recipes for this article is based.
Stuffed crab sticks: recipes with photos
With cheese and eggs
Most classic recipe, which can be found on every culinary site. Such popularity clearly indicates that this particular combination of products with crab sticks is the most delicious.
Required Ingredients:
100 grams of hard cheese;
Two boiled eggs;
Two cloves of garlic;
100 grams of mayonnaise;
With cod liver
Stuffed crab sticks with cod liver are gaining more and more popularity. Although, before these products did not dare to combine, but some daredevil tried it, and everyone liked it very much.
Required Ingredients:
150 grams of crab sticks;
150 grams of cod liver;
Two eggs;
Mayonnaise;
Greenery;
Salt and pepper;
Cod liver should be removed from the jar, put on a paper towel for a couple of minutes so that excess fat is absorbed. Then knead the product with a fork. Boil the eggs and just grate on a fine grater, and chop the greens finely. Mix these three products in a bowl and season with mayonnaise, add salt and pepper to taste. Now stuff each stick and refrigerate for several hours before serving. Decorate these with small greens.
With rice and fresh cucumber
This recipe has been slightly improved. There is not only a filling mixed with mayonnaise, but also a larger secret ingredient. If you cut such a stick as sushi, then it will very much resemble the famous Japanese dish both in appearance and taste.
Required Ingredients:
200 grams of crab sticks;
100 grams of rice;
Two eggs;
One fresh cucumber;
Mayonnaise;
Boil eggs and finely chop or grate. Boil the rice until cooked, not forgetting to salt the water. Mix the two ingredients and season with mayonnaise, add spices to taste. Remove the peel from the cucumber and cut the flesh into thin long plates along the length of the stick. Now carefully wrap each stick, smearing it with stuffing and putting a few slices of cucumber. Before serving, be sure to cut each stick into circles.
With mushrooms and shrimps
This option of stuffing sticks will definitely appeal to gourmets. Sea flavors are perfectly combined here, and mushrooms only complement the overall culinary extravaganza. On the cut, this dish also looks great.
Required Ingredients:
300 grams of crab sticks;
150 grams of champignons;
Bulb;
150 grams of hard cheese;
Two eggs;
100 grams of shrimp;
Two tablespoons of mayonnaise;
Greenery;
Unroll the sticks and then make the filling. Finely chop mushrooms and onions and fry in vegetable oil until ready. Next, grate the eggs and cheese on a fine grater, add to the mushrooms and onions. Put peeled and boiled shrimp, mayonnaise and greens into the mixture. Leave on low heat for a couple of minutes so that the filling becomes plastic.
While the filling has not cooled yet, put it on sticks. It is for this reason that crab sticks must be unwrapped even before you start preparing the filling itself. Now distribute the filling and wrap the stick back. Send for several hours in the refrigerator.
With melted cheese and herbs
We have already found out that stuffed crab sticks with cheese and garlic are the most popular cooking options for this dish. But, if you replace ordinary cheese, you will already get another new and unusual taste.
Required Ingredients:
200 grams of crab sticks;
200 grams processed cheese;
100 grams of hard cheese;
Three cloves of garlic;
Two boiled eggs;
100 grams of mayonnaise;
Place melted cheese in the freezer for 30 minutes. Then grate it, as well as hard cheese, garlic, boiled eggs on a fine grater. Add mayonnaise and mix. Unroll the sticks and spread the filling, salt and pepper. Now roll the crab product back and put it in the freezer for two hours to bring the dish to the final excellent taste.
With nuts and garlic
Required Ingredients:
200 grams of crab sticks;
200 grams of peanuts (you can cashews);
150 grams of hard cheese;
Greens, mayonnaise;
Chop the nuts, grate the cheese. Mix, add chopped greens and mayonnaise. It will look beautiful if the finished sticks are cut obliquely.
With canned pink salmon
Any canned slave is suitable for stuffing crab sticks. By palatability pink salmon goes well together, plus it has a nice shade. But if you wish, you can take sardines, tuna or even sprats.
Required Ingredients:
240 grams of crab sticks;
150 grams of canned salmon;
Three eggs;
Three tablespoons of boiled rice;
Bulb;
mayonnaise, salt and pepper;
Mash pink salmon with a fork, add finely chopped eggs and onion. Mix everything, add rice boiled until tender, salt and pepper. Season with mayonnaise, the filling should be viscous.
With pate in batter
More complicated recipe stuffed crab sticks. You won’t have to work with the filling for a long time, but the subsequent cooking process will take a little time.
Required Ingredients:
Crab sticks;
Pate;
Two eggs;
Salt and flour;
Milk and beer;
Mayonnaise, vegetable oil;
You can take any pate, best of all from a jar. Cut the eggs, add to the pate and mix with mayonnaise. Spread on sticks and wrap them. Now make a batter by mixing milk (beer) with flour. Dip each stick in the batter and fry in plenty of oil until crispy.
Cooking stuffed crab sticks is a pleasure. After all, the final taste of the dish will depend on the filling that will be in the sticks. It goes well with the initial ingredient of any canned fish, cheese and greens. If you wish, you can add various vegetables and even experiment with fruits (for example, with mango s)
