Salad with beans and crab sticks

Quick crab salad with beans for weekdays and holidays. This salad consists of my favorite ingredients. It is prepared simply, quickly and this is a huge plus for including it in the New Year's menu. The salad turns out to be colorful, bright and will decorate your festive table with its appearance. Be sure to save the recipe!

Maria

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Crab sticks

250

Canned beans (red in its own juice)

400

Cherry tomatoes

150

Hard cheese

100

Bell pepper

Garlic

Mayonnaise

Sour cream

Ground black pepper

to taste

Salt

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 32 % 7 g

Fats 23 % 5 g

Carbohydrates 45 % 10 g

115 kcal

GI: 36 / 0 / 64

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 30 min

Step 1:
How to make a salad with beans and crab sticks? Measure out all the necessary ingredients. You will need red canned beans in their own juice, large yellow bell pepper, crab sticks, cherry tomatoes (about 5-6 pcs), delicious hard cheese and spices.
Step 2:
Put the canned beans on a sieve or colander and let the liquid drain.
Step 3:
Defrost frozen crab sticks in advance. Without removing the packaging, 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. Now cut them into medium-sized cubes.
Step 4:
Wash the bell pepper, dry it with paper towels. Cut in half, peel from the seeds and cut into large pieces. For the beauty and brightness of the finished dish, you can take pepper halves of different colors.
Step 5:
Cut cherry tomatoes into quarters. Tomatoes can be taken and large. In this case, choose fleshy, but dense fruits, since soft ones do not hold their shape well and will turn into porridge when sliced, which will negatively affect the appearance of the dish. They can be cut into cubes or straws. Be sure to drain the juice formed during slicing, it will give the salad extra liquid.
Step 6:
Take a delicious hard cheese and cut it into small cubes. You can replace it with non-salted mozzarella.
Step 7:
In a small container, combine in equal proportions sour cream of any fat content, mayonnaise, garlic passed through the press, salt, ground black pepper. Mix it up. Adjust the amount of garlic to your liking.
Step 8:
Put crab sticks, bell peppers, canned beans, cherry tomatoes and cheese in a salad bowl. Season the salad with mayonnaise and sour cream sauce. Salad can be seasoned only with sour cream without adding mayonnaise or thick natural yogurt without additives.
Step 9:
Mix everything well. Salad can be served in a common salad bowl or portioned, pre-prepared cremans. You can decorate the dish with sprigs of fresh dill or leaves of curly parsley, basil.

The salad will look nice and neat if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape (for example, cubes).

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.

It is better to prepare mayonnaise yourself. It will be tastier and healthier. See here interesting recipes for homemade mayonnaise.
Also, as a dressing, you can use not only mayonnaise, but also sour cream or natural yogurt. They can be taken separately or mixed with mayonnaise in any proportion to your taste - this will reduce the calorie content of the dish.