Spring is the season for fresh herbs and vegetable dishes. Fresh vegetable salads are one of the pioneers of the spring season. And if they are complemented with crab sticks and cheese, then this is generally an amazing light and healthy dish.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Salads are a favorite dish, for sure by everyone, without exception. Some people prefer their hearty, complex and serious options, someone loves exotic ingredients, and for some, an unpretentious vegetable salad is good. The latter will be discussed in this review, but in order to diversify its taste, we will add the composition with cheese and crab sticks. These ingredients are popularly revered and loved by everyone.
Crab sticks are a recent exotic that has become commonplace. They are easy and convenient to prepare! And this is already enough to elevate the product to the favorites of modern home cooking. Therefore, we will prepare a salad of young white cabbage, cucumbers, crab sticks and radishes. Although here you can successfully use Peking (Chinese) cabbage. She has already caught up with our "old" white-headed woman in popularity. It has a delicate taste and is very easy to cut.
You can dilute this salad with all kinds of your favorite ingredients. For example, put tomatoes, bell peppers, chicken pieces, boiled eggs, etc. Even for satiety dishes, you can put some boiled loose rice or corn. About 15 years ago, such a salad was made exclusively on holidays. But today it is already a familiar everyday meal. Although at a solemn feast, he is still in good demand.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 142 kcal.
- Servings - 3
- Cooking time - 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- White cabbage - 0.5 pcs. (small head)
- Vegetable oil - for dressing
- Cucumbers - 2 pcs.
- Radish - 5-7 pcs.
- Crab sticks - 7 pcs.
- White cheese (mozzarella, feta cheese, Adyghe) - 100 g
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
Cooking a fresh vegetable salad with crab sticks and cheese:
1. Wash the white cabbage and pat dry with a paper towel. With a sharp knife, chop into thin strips, sprinkle with salt and press down with your hands so that she lets out the juice. This will make the salad juicier.
2. Wash the cucumbers, cut off the ends and cut into thin half rings.
3. Rinse the radishes in the same way, dry them, cut off the tail and cut them like cucumbers.
4. Remove the bag from the crab sticks and cut them into cubes or strips.
5. Cut the cheese into medium cubes too.
6. Put all the ingredients in a deep bowl, season with salt, pour over with vegetable oil and stir. For piquancy, you can season the salad with lemon juice or soy sauce, or come up with your own original dressing.
Serve the salad to the table immediately after cooking, because it is not customary to cook it for future use. He will give juice, vegetables will become soft and the taste will no longer be the same.
See also a video recipe on how to make a salad with crab sticks.
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