Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a pita bread roll with crab sticks and cucumber? First, prepare all the necessary ingredients. You will need large chicken eggs, two small cucumbers, 3-4 pieces of crab sticks, lettuce leaves and one thin pita bread of round or any other shape. How to choose the right pita bread? Look at the date of manufacture on the package. Fresh pita bread should have a pleasant smell. Take a good look so that there are no stains and signs of mold on it.
Step 2:
Wash and dry the lettuce leaves with paper towels. Spread the watercress evenly on a layer of thin pita bread. But you can use any salad to your taste.
Step 3:
Boil hard-boiled eggs (8-10 minutes after boiling). Turn off the fire. Drain the boiling water. Fill with cold water and cool. Now peel off the shell. Finely chop the eggs or grate them on a coarse grater. Place on top of the lettuce leaves. Lightly brush this and subsequent layers with mayonnaise. If for some reason you don't want to use mayonnaise, replace it with sour cream or natural yogurt without additives.
Step 4:
Wash and dry the fresh cucumbers. If the peel is not hard, not damaged and not bitter, you do not need to cut it. Cut the cucumbers lengthwise into four pieces. Defrost frozen crab sticks. Put them on a cutting board, let them thaw. Now remove the film. If it unwinds badly, hold the sticks over the steam for 1-3 seconds. Whole, without cutting, put the sticks on the egg layer. Apply a mayonnaise mesh on them.
Step 5:
How to roll pita bread into a roll? Fold carefully and as tightly as possible so that the filling does not fall out at the edges, and the pita bread itself does not break. If the roll is not rolled tightly, then it will be difficult to cut it into beautiful pieces. Wrap it in plastic wrap and send it to the refrigerator for 20 minutes so that it is well soaked and becomes soft.
Step 6:
Remove the roll from the refrigerator. Before serving, cut it into portions. The appetizer is ready. Serve it on the table. Enjoy your meal!
Pita bread roll with crab sticks can be prepared for breakfast, dinner, snack or a festive table. For a beautiful presentation, cover the plate with lettuce leaves, put the slices of the roll on them. Garnish the top with herbs at your discretion (parsley, dill, basil, cilantro).
In mayonnaise (sour cream or yogurt) sauce, you can add 1-2 cloves passed through a garlic press.
How to buy crab sticks correctly? When buying, look at the composition and expiration date on the package. Surimi meat (minced white fish) should appear in the list of ingredients in the first place. Do not buy the product if there is frost on it, which indicates repeated freezing. Fresh sticks should be elastic, moist, stain-free and not sticky.
If you use mayonnaise, I recommend cooking it yourself. It will be tastier and healthier. Recipe options you can find here
How to buy crab sticks correctly? Be sure to pay attention to the expiration date of the product. Surimi meat (minced white fish) should appear in the list of ingredients in the first place. Important! Do not buy the product if there is frost on it. This is a sign of repeated freezing. Fresh sticks should be free of gray and yellow spots, elastic and slightly moist. If the product is sticky, it means it is spoiled.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Fresh cucumbers - 15 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Crab sticks - 73 kcal/100g
- Vici juicy crab sticks - 73 kcal/100g
- Crab sticks meridian snow crab - 140 kcal/100g
- Miramar crab sticks - 140 kcal/100g
- Crab sticks santa bremor snow crab - 70 kcal/100g
- Salad mayonnaise of 50 % fat content - 502 kcal/100g
- Light mayonnaise - 260 kcal/100g
- Provencal Mayonnaise - 624 kcal/100g
- Provencal mayonnaise - 627 kcal/100g
- Table mayonnaise - 627 kcal/100g
- Armenian lavash - 236 kcal/100g
- Lavash - 277 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Watercress - 32 kcal/100g