Salad with beans and crab sticks

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make a salad with beans and crab sticks? Measure out all the necessary ingredients. You will need canned red beans in their own juice, large yellow bell peppers, crab sticks, cherry tomatoes (about 5-6 pcs), delicious hard cheese and spices.

2. STEP 2

   

   Place the canned beans in a sieve or colander and allow the liquid to drain.

3. STEP 3

   

   Thaw frozen crab sticks in advance. Without removing the packaging, place them on a cutting board and let them thaw. Now remove the film. If it doesn't unwind well, hold the sticks over the steam for 1-3 seconds. Now cut them into medium sized cubes.

4. STEP 4

   

   Wash the bell peppers and dry with paper towels. Cut in half, remove seeds and cut into large pieces. For the beauty and brightness of the finished dish, you can take halves of peppers of different colors.

5. STEP 5

   

   Cut cherry tomatoes into quarters. You can also take large tomatoes. In this case, choose fleshy but dense fruits, since soft ones do not hold their shape well and, when cut, will turn into porridge, which will negatively affect the appearance of the dish. They can be cut into cubes or strips. Be sure to drain the juice formed during slicing; it will add excess liquid to the salad.

6. STEP 6

   

   Take a delicious hard cheese and cut it into small cubes. You can replace it with unbrined mozzarella.

7. STEP 7

   

   In a small container, combine sour cream of any fat content, mayonnaise, pressed garlic, salt, and ground black pepper in equal proportions. Stir. Adjust the amount of garlic to your taste.

8. STEP 8

   

   Place crab sticks, bell peppers, canned beans, cherry tomatoes and cheese in a salad bowl. Season the salad with mayonnaise-sour cream sauce. The salad can be dressed only with sour cream without adding mayonnaise or with thick natural yogurt without additives.

9. STEP 9

   

   Mix everything well. The salad can be served in a common salad bowl or in portioned, pre-prepared bowls. You can decorate the dish with sprigs of fresh dill or leaves of curly parsley and basil.

Comments on the recipe

Zoryana

14.11.2023

4.7

Agree. The salad is tasty and quite filling. See also this version of bean salad with crab sticks.

Svetlana

14.11.2023

4.7

The salad turned out very tasty, despite the fact that I forgot to add cherry tomatoes. Quick and easy to cook! Thanks for the recipe!

Ankdash

14.11.2023

4.8

I decided to treat myself to something tasty and unusual. This salad turned out to be just what I was looking for. For me, the combination of beans and crab sticks is very new, I have never tried it. It turned out delicious, despite the fact that I, like one of the commentators, did not have cherry tomatoes, but I did have greens. Next time I will cook with both tomatoes and herbs. Thanks for the interesting recipe!

Sasha

14.11.2023

4.6

Good afternoon. Happy New Year. 400 grams of beans is the net weight or net weight in the can.