Preparing a casserole with crab sticks and potatoes:

Since crab sticks are not subject to long-term heat treatment, the potatoes must first be either boiled or fried. But frying it is tastier, but boiling it is healthier. See for yourself which one is closer to your liking and stomach. I will fry the potatoes in circles like these.

Also fry the carrots and onions separately. Divide this entire portion of fried potatoes and carrots with onions visually into three parts and place it 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 let's prepare a sauce from mayonnaise, lemon juice and a small amount of water, which we will pour over our potato-crab structure.

And at the end of the preparatory work, sprinkle more grated cheese on top. That's it, now you can set it to bake. According to the rules, we preheat the oven to 200 degrees, and when it warms up, we put our workpiece in it. In about 20 minutes, your eyes will see a most delicate creation, which also tastes incomparable.

The dish will turn out so tender that it will need to sit on the table for some time to cool a little. If you try to put the casserole on plates straight from the oven, it will fall apart and you will end up with an incomprehensible mess. Let it sit on the table for 10 minutes - it won’t get cold, and the taste will be just right!

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

The appetizer “Potatoes with crab sticks” comes from my student youth, that very period of life when there is no money, you want to eat and a beautiful life, in fact, you also want it, especially if you are a student, not a student. In general, the recipe arose due to lack of money coupled with the desire to eat deliciously, and received its form thanks to the desire for beauty. Without this desire, its preparation will take about 50 minutes (depending on how long your potatoes will be boiled, and the cook will have about 20 minutes of work. To make it beautiful, it will take more time.

Products: for 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, depending on your wishes and availability. It is advisable to take small potatoes: they cook and cool faster. Well, you also need water to boil potatoes.

Cook the potatoes in their jackets until tender.

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

If sweet peppers are used, they are also cut. You can use it in small, small cubes, or you can use it in thin sticks. These will be the stamens of the flowers.

Peel the potatoes WHILE HOT, and immediately rub them through the finest grater. If you have a potato press with small holes, use the press calmly.

Mix the dough from hot grated potatoes, finely chopped crab sticks, a tablespoon of mayonnaise and salt to taste. The appetizer of potatoes 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.

Divide the dough into two halves, each of these halves into two more halves, and each of the quarters into two halves. In this simple way we get 16 pieces.

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

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

Well, we also cut off each petal from its neighbors on the side.

And the finishing touch - stick in the stamens!

These are the flowers we get.

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

Fried potatoes are a very tasty dish in themselves and, it seemed, could not be supplemented with anything to get new taste sensations, but, fortunately, this is not the case! Try making tender and crumbly new fried potatoes with ham and crab sticks, and you will never want to cook them any other way. Seafood imbues the dish with incredible aromas that permeate your entire kitchen when cooking.

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

The recipe takes the longest to prepare potatoes, so immediately peel them with light movements of the knife and rinse them 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 add salt, stirring immediately so that they are all saturated with fat.

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

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

Simmer for 2-3 minutes. You will see how the stick slices become twice as thick. That’s when we add chopped green onions and mix again. Turn off the heat and let the potatoes soak in the freshness of the greens.

If desired, you can also add a beaten chicken egg to the fried potatoes with ham and crab sticks.

Place the prepared side dish on plates and taste.

Step 1: prepare the potatoes.

Using a knife, peel the potatoes and then thoroughly rinse the ingredient under running warm water. Immediately after this, place the potatoes on a cutting board and use a knife to cut them into small pieces. Place the chopped vegetable in a saucepan and fill the container with water so that it completely covers the ingredient. After this, put the pan on medium heat and wait for the water to boil. Afterwards, using a slotted spoon, remove the foam that has formed on the surface of the liquid, and now turn the heat to less than medium, cover the container with a lid and cook the potatoes for 25-35 minutes, depending on the type of vegetable. After the allotted time has passed, check the readiness of the potatoes with a fork. If the potato pieces have become soft and can be easily pierced with available equipment, then the potatoes are ready and you can turn off the burner. Holding it with oven mitts, slightly open the lid of the pan and 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, using a potato masher, we crush the potatoes until they become pureed. Attention: It is necessary to crush the boiled vegetable so that as few lumps form as possible. Set the finished mashed potatoes aside to cool to room temperature.

Step 2: prepare the crab sticks.

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

Step 3: prepare hard cheese.

Grind hard cheese, like crab sticks, using a coarse grater. Afterwards, immediately transfer the ingredient to an empty 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: prepare potato cutlets with crab sticks.

Add chopped crab sticks, hard cheese, and carrots to a bowl of mashed potatoes. After this, break the shell and add the egg to the same container. At the end, add salt and pepper to our mixture to taste. Using a tablespoon, mix everything well until a homogeneous mass is formed. Then pour breadcrumbs into the bowl. With clean, but always wet (so that the minced potato does not stick) hands, pick up a small amount of potato mixture and form it into a patty. After this, roll the cutlet in breadcrumbs on all sides and set aside for now on a cutting board. And now we repeat the procedure from the beginning and so on until we run out of minced potatoes. Place a frying pan with a small amount of oil on medium heat and wait for the oil to heat up well. After this, turn the heat to less than medium and carefully place the cutlets in a container with your hands at a short distance from each other. Fry the dish on both sides until a golden crust forms. 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 put a new batch of dish into the container again.

Step 6: Serve potato cakes with crab sticks.

The finished dish, while it is still hot, can and should be served. For a more aesthetic appearance, potato cutlets can be sprinkled with finely chopped green onions. Well, you can treat your family with the dish along with sour cream, any favorite sauce, as well as a cup of hot tea. Potato cutlets with crab sticks turn out very tasty and aromatic, and most importantly, very filling, so you can safely put them on the table as a main course. Enjoy your meal!

- – Instead of crab sticks, you can add chopped crab meat to the minced potatoes, as it is a little juicier and will give the potato cutlets more flavor and satiety.

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

- – If you are not sure what type of potatoes you have, then during the cooking process it is better to add a little salt so that the vegetable boils better.

- – It is best to use frozen seafood rather than chilled, as they are denser in consistency and therefore will be better felt in the dish itself.

Crab sticks are a versatile ingredient for salads and appetizers, ideally combined with other foods. Therefore, we have prepared for you the TOP 5, which will be useful for all occasions. These are the popular “snow balls”, the famous Italian, original cocktail salad and oven-baked “crumb potatoes”.

The ingredients for appetizers should be tasty and natural, so we recommend using VICI crab sticks for preparation. They are made using a special Japanese technology - freshly caught fish is separated, washed, the fillets are crushed and a homogeneous white mass rich in protein is obtained - it is called surimi. It is worth noting that surimi has a very mild taste, similar to crab meat, so it is used to prepare crab sticks. Surimi is baked, rolled, pasteurized, then cooled and packaged. This product can be safely used for home culinary experiments, the results of which you will treat the whole family to.

“Snow balls” with crab sticks

What we need:

200 g crab sticks
100 g hard cheese
4 eggs
2 tbsp. spoons of mayonnaise

1. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Pass the crab sticks through a meat grinder or grate them on a fine grater.

3. Roll crab balls in grated cheese.

Caesar salad with crab sticks

What we need:

200 g crab sticks
6 cherry tomatoes
1 bunch of green salad
3 eggs
200 g parmesan
3 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon grainy mustard
3 tbsp. spoons of mayonnaise
1 tbsp. spoon of soy sauce
White bread
olive oil

How to cook a dish with crab sticks

1. Cut white bread into cubes, chop garlic. Fry the bread in heated olive oil until golden brown. Then place on a paper towel to absorb the oil.

2. Boil the eggs and cut in half. Wash the tomatoes and halve them. Cut crab sticks into large pieces. Grate the cheese. Cut the lettuce leaves into several pieces.

3. Make the dressing by mixing mustard, soy sauce and mayonnaise in a bowl. Mix the dressing with the salad, sprinkling it with homemade croutons.

“Kroshka-potatoes” with crab sticks

What we need:

6 potatoes
200 g crab sticks
5 gherkins
½ red onion
150 g ham
100 g cheese
3 tbsp. spoons of canned corn
100 g butter
2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream

How to cook a dish with crab sticks

1. Wash the potatoes well, dry them and wrap them in foil, make cross-shaped cuts (so that the potatoes bake better). Place on a baking sheet and place in the oven preheated to 200 degrees. Bake for 1-1.5 hours.

2. Make the filling for the potatoes. Cut the gherkins and red onion into slices, chop the crab sticks. Cut the ham into cubes. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Add corn and mix these ingredients with mayonnaise.

3. Cut the finished potatoes in half, add butter and mash the middle. Place the prepared filling with mayonnaise on each half.

Cocktail salad with crab sticks

What we need:

100 g crab sticks
150 g shrimp
1 small Chinese cabbage
6 tbsp. tablespoons canned corn
3 slices pineapple
60 g hard cheese
6 tbsp. spoons of mayonnaise
salt
greenery

How to cook a dish with crab sticks

1. Chop the cabbage and grate the cheese on a fine grater. Chop crab sticks. Cut the pineapple into cubes.

2. Place a layer of cabbage in wide glasses or bowls (in portions), and salt it. Spread with mayonnaise.

3. The second layer of salad is corn, spread with a thin layer of mayonnaise. Then add pineapple cubes. Place crab sticks and a couple of shrimps on them, spreading them with mayonnaise.

4. Sprinkle the salad with grated cheese and garnish with a sprig of herbs.

Bruschetta with crab sticks

What we need:

1 white baguette
150 g crab sticks
2 cloves of garlic
50 g butter
2 tbsp. spoons of olive oil
chili powder (optional)

How to cook a dish with crab sticks

1. Cut the baguette into slices diagonally, grease them with olive oil and place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10 minutes.

2. Cut crab sticks into large slices.

3. Place a piece of butter in the frying pan. Place chopped garlic next to it, lightly fry and sprinkle with chili pepper. Place the crab sticks in the pan and turn off the heat after a minute.

4. Place crab sticks with garlic on a baguette.