Not everyone has the opportunity to pamper themselves with tasty and high-calorie food for a number of reasons. But this is not a reason to deny yourself such a delicious dish as dietary crab salad. Moreover, there is more than one recipe that allows you to prepare a low-calorie and at the same time surprisingly light salad from crab sticks.
This dish turns out to be surprisingly light, because it contains not only eggs, but also mayonnaise, which is simply replaced with low-fat sour cream.
You can also try cooking which you will find on our website.
Despite the presence of eggs in the salad, the dish turns out to be quite light and very aromatic. If you don’t know how to replace mayonnaise in crab salad, then try using olive oil, as in our recipe.
An excellent alternative to this dish is, preparing an appetizer is not difficult and will not take much of your time.
This is an excellent alternative to the classic dish, in which mayonnaise sauce is replaced with low-fat sour cream.
Advice: if the cucumbers chosen for preparing the salad are already a little old, their skin has already turned a little yellow and is bitter, then you should definitely peel it.
The original and surprisingly refined dressing used in this recipe allows you to create an exceptional, satisfying, nutritious and at the same time low-calorie dish.
No less interesting options that are suitable for those who are on a diet are.
Another original recipe for a much-loved dish with the addition of champignons. This salad will fit perfectly into the holiday atmosphere and will ideally complement a table filled with delicacies.
Advice: to make this dish even lighter and less caloric, it should be prepared a little differently. There is no need to fry the mushrooms; it will be enough to boil them in plain water. And to add flavor, add spices such as oregano, basil and thyme.
Dietary crab stick salad is no longer something surprising, since such a beloved dish should not be forbidden for people forced to adhere to a certain menu. Moreover, even with the very minimum of products that are included in one or another recipe, the end result is an amazing snack. If you don’t know what you can replace crab sticks in a salad with, you can use chicken or crab meat.
Step-by-step recipes for preparing a healthy and easy dietary crab salad with various ingredients
2019-02-11 Natalia Danchishak and Alena KamenevaGrade
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In 100 grams of the finished dish
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18 gr.96 kcal.
Today I want to invite you to prepare a delicious and simple dietary crab salad. This salad option is perfect for anyone who is watching their figure or trying to stick to proper nutrition. It is important to choose tasty and high-quality ingredients for the salad; the sticks can be used fresh, not frozen.
Yogurt is a good choice for salad dressing; you can also use light low-fat sour cream. You can always add a lot of your favorite greens to the salad - parsley, dill, green onions, etc. Let's quickly prepare this simple and tasty salad, I think you will definitely like the result.
Ingredients:
Cooking process
Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Cut the crab sticks into small cubes or strips - as you like. Crab sticks can be replaced with crab meat.
Wash and dry the fresh cucumber, trim the ends on both sides. Cut the cucumber into small cubes.
Place the chicken eggs in a ladle, add water, cook for 10 minutes from the moment the water boils, throw in a handful of salt during the process. Afterwards, you need to cool the eggs, peel them, and cut them into small cubes.
Prepare a deep plate - place chopsticks, eggs and cucumbers into it. Open the can of canned corn, drain the juice, add the corn to the container with all the ingredients.
Add a spoonful of delicious thick yogurt to the salad, add salt and pepper to the salad, mix all the ingredients and take a sample. Now you need to arrange the salad on plates and serve.
Bon appetit!
Thanks to Chinese cabbage, the salad turns out juicy and crispy. The vegetable goes well with corn and crab sticks, creating a unique taste. The salad prepares very quickly.
Ingredients:
How to quickly prepare diet crab salad
Remove the top leaves from the Chinese cabbage. Cut off the hard part. Chop the tender leaves into thin strips. Lightly knead with your hands, season with salt, and place in a deep bowl.
While you are chopping the cabbage and other ingredients, place the eggs in a saucepan, cover them with drinking water and place on low heat. Cook for ten minutes.
Thaw the crab sticks, remove the film from each. Place on a board and cut in half lengthwise, then crumble into not too small pieces. Add chopped crab sticks to shredded cabbage.
Drain the hot water from the eggs and place the saucepan under cold running water. Peel the cooled eggs and crumble them into small pieces. Add the product to the rest of the ingredients.
Step 5:
Open the can of corn, drain the liquid, placing the product in a sieve. Place in a bowl. Add mayonnaise, add a little salt and stir until the ingredients are evenly distributed.
For salad, use only the tender part of the head of cabbage. If you cannot purchase Chinese cabbage, you can replace it with young white cabbage.
Shrimp are used to prepare delicious salads, cocktails, and soups. Salad of crab sticks with shrimp is an appetizer worthy of a royal table.
Ingredients:
How to cook
Place the shrimp in cold water and leave until completely defrosted. Then rinse the seafood. Pour a liter of drinking water into a small saucepan, add two tablespoons of salt and boil. Place shrimp in boiling water and simmer over low heat for three minutes. Once they float to the surface and turn a bright orange color, remove from the heat and leave in the hot broth for 15 minutes. Then remove them with a slotted spoon and rinse under running cold water. Separate the meat from the shell and remove the intestines.
Thaw the crab sticks, peel off the film and chop into medium pieces. Combine with shrimp and place in a deep bowl.
Place the quail eggs in a saucepan, cover with purified water and cook over low heat for five minutes. Then cool under running cold water, peel and crumble into small pieces. Place in a bowl with shrimp and crab sticks. Place capers here too.
Wash the tomatoes, dry with a paper towel and cut into four parts. Cut out the pulp and finely chop the rest of the tomato. Rinse the green onions and chop into thin rings. Add everything to the rest of the ingredients.
Lightly salt and pepper everything. Add mayonnaise and seafood seasonings. Mix everything well. Place the salad on a beautiful dish, cover with red caviar on top, and arrange the shrimp in a circle. Place olives cut into rings in the center and garnish with dill sprigs.
Use meaty tomatoes to prevent the salad from being too watery. Instead of crab sticks, you can use crab rolls or meat. Take only high quality red caviar so as not to spoil the taste of the salad.
For many, diet turns into torture and is associated with kefir, buckwheat or oatmeal. In fact, the menu can be diversified not only with healthy, but also delicious low-calorie dishes. Salad with crab sticks and cottage cheese is a light and healthy snack for those who are watching their weight.
Ingredients:
Step by step recipe
Remove the crab sticks from the refrigerator and leave on the counter until completely defrosted. Remove the film from them. Place on a board and cut lengthwise into four pieces, then crumble into small cubes.
Wash the tomatoes and dry with a disposable paper towel. Cut the tomatoes in half and remove the soft part with the seeds. Cut the fleshy part of the vegetable into small pieces.
Grind the cottage cheese through a sieve. In a deep bowl, combine crab sticks with cottage cheese and tomatoes.
Place the eggs in a small saucepan, cover with drinking water and cook over low heat until hard-boiled. Cool the product under running cold water. Remove the shell and cut the eggs into small pieces. Add to the rest of the ingredients.
Season the salad with natural yogurt and stir thoroughly. Place the appetizer among portioned bowls and garnish with fresh parsley leaves.
You can not only decorate a dish with greens, but also add it to your salad to taste. It is advisable to grind the cottage cheese through a sieve so that it acquires a uniform consistency.
An easy and at the same time satisfying option for preparing a dietary salad with crab sticks, which go well with mozzarella, vegetables and lettuce.
Ingredients:
How to cook:
Pour vegetable oil into a cup and combine it with freshly squeezed lemon juice, pepper and salt. Stir well. The filling is ready.
We completely defrost the crab sticks and remove the packaging from them. Place on a board, cut lengthwise into four pieces and crumble into small pieces. Place in a deep cup.
Wash the tomatoes, dry them and chop them into small slices. Place the chopped tomato in a cup with crab sticks.
Wash the fresh cucumber, peel it, cut it into slices and chop it into short thin strips. Add to the rest of the ingredients.
Rinse the lettuce leaves, cut them into strips and place in a bowl. Crumble the mozzarella and put it in a cup. Pour the ingredients with a dressing based on vegetable oil and lemon juice and mix.
It is better to tear the lettuce leaves with your hands. Instead of mozzarella, you can use unsalted cheese.
Classic crab salad is prepared with boiled rice and corn. Low-calorie sour cream or mayonnaise, natural yogurt or corn liquid are used as a dressing.
Ingredients:
Step-by-step recipe for diet crab salad
Rinse the rice grains until the water runs clear. Place the rice in a saucepan, cover with clean filtered water and place over low heat. Cook until done. Transfer the boiled rice to a cup and cool.
Open the can of corn. Strain the liquid, pouring the contents into a sieve. Do not pour out the syrup. Add corn to rice.
Peel the onion, wash and finely chop. Thaw the crab sticks, remove the film from them. Cut each one in half lengthwise and cut into not too thin semicircles. Add chopped onions and crab sticks to the rest of the ingredients. Use corn syrup as a dressing. Stir and place in a beautiful salad bowl.
When purchasing crab sticks, pay attention to the integrity of the packaging and storage conditions of the product. To determine the freshness of crab sticks, press them with your finger; a quality product will be elastic.
Crab sticks are a versatile product that is often used on the Dukan diet. This ingredient is most often used in salads. Unfortunately, everyone’s favorite crab salad with vegetables, corn and other Dukan ingredients will not work. However, the variety of salads does not end there. There are many recipes that are no less tasty, but at the same time dietary.
This recipe for Dukan cabbage salad will serve as an excellent breakfast or dinner, as it consists only of light ingredients. And by adding a side dish, for example, stewed meat, these two dishes will serve as an excellent lunch.
It is worth considering that due to the large number of vegetables, at the first stage of the diet you will have to resist the temptation to enjoy a wonderful salad with crab sticks and cabbage. Its advantage, besides its taste, is its colorfulness. Therefore, a dish with fresh Chinese cabbage is also suitable for a holiday, as a light dish to start a banquet at stage 2, 3 or 4 of the diet. To prepare the salad you will need:
You can also prepare cabbage salad in another way.
These dishes can also be prepared from white cabbage.
Ordinary sticks can be replaced with a more refined product - real crab meat. The recipe contains the following products:
A light snack according to Dukan turns out incredibly tender and very tasty.
Another recipe with slave meat. This dish will cost a little more than previous salads. However, thanks to its taste and appearance, this dish will fit perfectly into an elegant holiday table. It will require:
The cooking method is also not particularly complicated.
Let's think about the name: crab sticks. But, oddly enough, not a single crab was harmed in the production of this product. In fact, the sticks are prepared on the basis of surimi - minced fish fillet with a low fat content. The taste of the crab is acquired with the help of flavoring additives, and the color is acquired with paprika or dye. Also, in addition to shirimi, the sticks contain water, vegetable oil, egg white, starch, salt and sugar.
When preparing the main component - surimi - white fish that does not contain fat is used. Minced fish is not subjected to heat treatment, so it retains all vitamins and microelements: 20 amino acids, iron, iodine, zinc, nicotinic acid, etc.
Nowadays, store shelves are filled with various products. Countless different types and brands of crab meat and crab sticks are sold. So how do you choose?
1. Salad with crab sticks and shrimp
We will need:
Let's start cooking:
Boil shrimp in salted water. Cut the shrimp and sticks into pieces. Mix mayonnaise with crushed garlic. Salt and season the salad.
2. Salad with crab sticks and Chinese cabbage
We will need:
Let's start cooking:
First, let's prepare the cabbage. Cut the cabbage into thin strips and sprinkle with salt. Cut the crab sticks into small cubes, add corn and finely chopped onion. The cabbage has already given juice. Therefore, we squeeze it out and add it to the salad. Season everything with low-fat sour cream. Salt. The salad is ready.
3. Salad with crab sticks, cottage cheese and cucumbers
We will need:
Let's start cooking:
Finely chop crab sticks and cucumbers. Using a garlic press, squeeze out the garlic. Finely chop the greens. Add cottage cheese, salt and season everything with sour cream. Mix thoroughly.
4. Salad with crab sticks and Korean carrots
We will need:
Let's start cooking:
Chop the crab sticks into small strips. Three cucumbers on a grater. Mix all the ingredients, add salt and season with olive oil.
5. Salad with crab sticks and green beans
We will need:
Let's start cooking:
Finely chop the onion. Boil the beans. Cut crab sticks, cucumber and beans into strips. Mix with carrots. Add oil, salt. Cool.
6. Salad with crab meat, mozzarella and soy sauce
We will need:
Let's start cooking:
Tear the salad with your hands. Cut crab sticks, tomatoes and cheese into medium-sized pieces, mix with Romano. Season with a mixture of olive oil and soy sauce.
7. Salad with crab sticks, cucumbers and apples
We will need:
Let's start cooking:
Cut the sticks and cucumbers into cubes. Grate the apple. Chop the greens. Stir, salt and season with lemon juice.
8. Salad with crab sticks, gherkins and yogurt
We will need:
Let's start cooking:
Boil the eggs. Sticks. Chop the gherkins, eggs and herbs. Separately mix yogurt, salt, mustard for sauce. Combine all ingredients and mix thoroughly. Salt.
9. Salad with crab sticks and green peas
We will need:
Let's start cooking:
Chop the boiled eggs and sticks. Add green peas. Mix. Add salt. Season everything with mayonnaise.
10. Salad with crab sticks, spinach and quail eggs
We will need:
Let's start cooking:
Cut crab sticks into small pieces. Grate the cheese. Finely tear the spinach with your hands. Boil quail eggs. Cut cherry tomatoes and eggs into halves. Finely chop the walnuts. Add salt, pepper and season with olive oil.
A light and tasty salad will be an excellent dish for a diabetic diet. A dietary salad with crab sticks will surprise and delight. It's very easy and quick to prepare. And no mayonnaise.
I have already written about mayonnaise for diabetes. If you have normal body weight, then this sauce is not harmful. It is low in carbohydrates, so it does not affect sugar levels. And if you cook it at home, or buy a high-quality one, then it will not affect your overall health. Count.
But many diabetics still try to limit their consumption of mayonnaise, replacing it with butter or yogurt. In this version of dietary crab salad we will use olive oil.
If we talk about the nutritional value of crab sticks, they have a lot of protein and few calories. Choose only a high-quality product that contains a lot of surimi. These are usually quite expensive sticks.
The salad also includes Chinese cabbage, which is rich in magnesium. And, as you already know, it affects blood sugar levels.
The preparation of this salad is simple. Finely chop all the ingredients, season with oil and juice. Salt and pepper. Ready.
Another good thing about this salad is its calorie content. Only 78 kcal per 100 grams.
More fish salad recipes here. Yes, yes, since the salad is with crab sticks, I deservedly consider it fishy. Good sticks contain about 40-50% surimi, minced fish. And fish, as we know, is very healthy and important for a properly balanced diet.
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