It is time for summer cookouts yet? I bet it is! Who said cookouts should be all meat and bread โ add a bit of vegetables and crab sticks ๐
Napa gives this salad tender filling; however you can substitute white cabbage for napa โ it will work fine, just remember to tenderize shredded cabbage with your hands.
If you use frozen crab sticks, make sure they unfreeze completely and all extra liquid is removed before adding them to the salad.
Ingredients:
16 oz pack of surimi crab sticks
5-6 leaves of napa cabbage
1 english cucumber (I took about 3/4 of it)
1 can (15 oz) of sweet fresh cut whole kernel corn (salted)
4 eggs
Bunch of fresh dill
Bunch of green onions
Mayonnaise to taste
Salt to taste
How to prepare, step-by-step:
Prepare ingredients: boil eggs hard, drain liquid from corn, clean and rinse greens and vegetables, english cucumber can be replaced by any other cucumber type of similar size:
Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumber Recipe: Step 1
Start of by shredding napa (I used about 5-6 leaves, but depending on the size add more if needed). Put shredded cabbage to the big salad bowl, season with salt and set aside (if you substitute white cabbage for napa โ soften it a bit with your hands before continuing):
Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumber Recipe: Step 2
Dice cucumber (if it has hard or bitter skin โ remove it), add to the salad bowl:
Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumber Recipe: Step 3
Peel and chop eggs (I used egg slicer), add to the salad bowl:
Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumber Recipe: Step 4
Add corn (drain liquid before this):
Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumber Recipe: Step 5
Slice each crab stick lenghtways and dice, add them to the salad bowl:
Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumber Recipe: Step 6
Add finely sliced onions:
Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumber Recipe: Step 7
And chopped fresh dill:
Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumber Recipe: Step 8
Mix everything:
Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumber Recipe: Step 9
Dress with mayonnaise (adjust amount depending on how thick mayo is):
Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumber Recipe: Step 10
And mix again:
Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumber Recipe: Step 11
And serve. Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumbers goes great as a side dish for cookouts:
Crab Sticks Salad with Napa and Cucumber
Enjoy!
Tips and Advices:
Salad with fresh cucumbers is better to serve as soon as it is prepared (if left for long time diced fresh cucumber will produce a lot of juice which will affect salad texture)
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Can you substitute bologna or ham for the crab sticks?
I think you can try, I would rather go with ham than bologna here.