Crab cake is now a very fashionable interpretation of salad. The appetizer looks gorgeous, will become a table decoration and will certainly delight you with its taste. And you can cook it according to a variety of recipes.
Here are popular options that are worthy of attention.
Crab cake - general cooking principles
For the cake, you can use all those products that go to the salad. These are eggs, sticks, rice, cucumbers, various greens, onions, corn. There are options with the addition of salted fish, mushrooms, several interesting recipes can be found just below. Mayonnaise is usually used to lubricate products, sometimes sauces based on it are prepared, the addition of spices is encouraged.
Popular cake options:
1. With waffle cakes. They have a neutral or even salty taste, subtle, ideal for a layer of filling.
2. From the expanded sticks. They are used in the form of cakes. It is important to pay attention to sticks when buying, not all of them can unfold.
3. From products in layers. Usually they use a detachable shape for assembly, a confectionery ring will also work. The ingredients are stacked alternately, rammed. After cooling, the ring is removed, the cake is decorated.
To decorate a crab cake, you can use different types of greens, often make balls of cheese with garlic and chopsticks, you can simply boil and cut quail eggs, cut flowers from cucumbers or tomatoes. The main thing is not to forget that for the design you need to use those products that are inside or are well combined with the main ingredients, complement their taste.
Waffle crab cake
The most common and simple crab cake recipe. It is advisable to collect it in the indicated sequence so that the layers are uniformly saturated. Immediately shift the mayonnaise into a bag, make a hole to squeeze out a thin stream. Lubricating the layers with a spoon is difficult, the crushed ingredients will stretch, and the waffles will become sour from a large amount of sauce.
Ingredients
• 0.25 kg of sticks;
• 4 eggs (boil);
• 1 pack of cakes;
• 150 g of cheese;
• 50 g of dill;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 300g mayonnaise;
• 1 processed cheese;
• 2 cucumbers;
• 7 quail eggs (boil).
Cooking method
1. Put one cake on a plate, lightly grease and cover with a second cake, it is better to grease it. Set aside a couple of crab sticks, cut everything else. We spread half on the cake, make a mayonnaise net, cover with a new cake, we also coat it.
2. Rub or chop eggs, spread, grease and cover.
3. Now there is a layer of chopped cucumbers mixed with half the greens, grease, but not salt, cover with a new cake.
4. Now a layer of cheese, grease, cover.
5. Finish with a layer of the remaining sticks, just sprinkle the whole cake.
6. Cream cheese and the two remaining sticks, rub, add garlic and a little mayonnaise. Roll up balls, put on a cake. Cut the quail eggs along, spread on the cake.
7. Sprinkle the sides of the snack cake with herbs.
Crab cake "Paradise"
This is a variant of the cake from sticks that will be cake layers. It is important to choose large and long sticks, they should fully unfold to a rectangle or square. If you need a large cake, you can lay on a layer a few expanded sticks, increasing in proportion to the other ingredients of the snack.
Ingredients
• 10 sticks;
• three boiled eggs;
• 3 pickles;
• 70 g of rice;
• 1 bunch of dill;
• 250 g of mayonnaise;
• onions, spices.
Cooking method
1. Boil rice in salted water until soft, drain into a colander. If there is no time to cool, then just rinse with cold water, leave, let the drops drip.
2. Cut finely or rub boiled eggs in a bowl, add a little onion, but you can without it, pour the rice.
3. We crumble pickled cucumbers and add to the filling, season it all with mayonnaise, but we adjust the quantity ourselves, we need a thick mass that will not spread.
4. We unfold the melted sticks to obtain "cakes".
5. Put one deployed stick on a dish. If they are small, then we collect a cake of several pieces, you can trim the excess.
6. Lubricate the cake from the sticks with the filling, lay the layer again, then lettuce, collect the cake. We decorate with greens, you can lay out a lattice of chopped sticks. Let the snack cake stand in the refrigerator for about an hour.
Split crab cake with rice
If there is no detachable form, then you can use the confectionery ring or come up with something else. It's just that in layers, like a salad is collected, nothing will work out, since it will be necessary to ram the products.
Ingredients
• 100 g of rice;
• 250 g of mayonnaise;
• 0.25 g sticks;
• 0.17 kg of cheese (can be processed);
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 4 eggs (boil);
• 1 tomato;
• herbs, spices.
Cooking method
1. Prepare rice in salted water, throw it in a colander. After cooling, add a little greens to it, just a few twigs, it will make the layer more beautiful, put a spoonful of mayonnaise, stir and transfer to a split ring mounted on a flat dish.
2. Finely chop the sticks, put them on top of the rice, grease and tamp. Then we do the same with finely chopped tomatoes; you do not need to cover it with sauce.
3. We rub the egg whites and cheese into a separate bowl, stir between them, add chopped garlic cloves, but you can make a salad without them. Now this mixture is laid on tomatoes, the coat is well smeared.
4. We remove the cake and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
5. Gently twist and remove the ring. Rub on top the boiled yolks that remain, sprinkle the sides of the cake with herbs. For decoration, you can use tomatoes or crab sticks.
Crab cake (with red fish)
Another version of the cake with unrolled sticks. A fairly simple and quick recipe. You can take hard cheese or mix it in half with processed cheese. Salted red fish is used, it can be pink salmon, salmon or any other species.
Ingredients
• 7-8 large sticks;
• 120 g of fish;
• five eggs;
• 200 g of cheese;
• some mayonnaise;
• 3 tablespoons of corn;
• 5-8 olives.
Cooking method
1. Start by boiling eggs and thawing sticks, as this takes the most time. Cool eggs, peel, grate in a bowl. Also rub cheese or two kinds to them, sometimes a little cottage cheese is added, which can also be done.
2. Cut the red fish into slices, not large, pour into the total mass. Introduce mayonnaise, herbs and spices to taste. Stir.
3. Unfold the sticks, grease the cooked salad one by one, laying on top of each other in the form of a small cake.
4. Cut the olives in half lengthwise, lay on the salad with the grains of corn. The side parts can simply be greased, sprinkled with dill or other herbs.
Crab cake with waffle cakes and salmon
Another variation of waffle crab cake. If there is no salmon, then you can take another salted fish of red varieties.
Ingredients
• 6 cakes;
• 0.3 kg of sticks;
• 0.15 kg of red fish;
• 4 eggs (boil);
• mayonnaise for smearing;
• 0.13 kg of cheese;
• greens for decoration.
Cooking method
1. We lay one cake on top, smearing with a thin layer of mayonnaise so that they stick together a little. Next, rub the eggs, add a little mayonnaise, stir and grease the first layer, cover with dry waffle cake.
2. Rub 2/3 of the sticks, mix with mayonnaise, spread, cover.
3. Now we rub the cheese, we also dress it separately with the sauce, spread it.
4. Grind the remaining sticks, add chopped fish to them, but not all, half is enough, season with sauce, grease the cake and cover again.
5. Lubricate the last wafer with mayonnaise, lay out the remaining fish, cut into neat plates, decorate the cake with greens.
Crab cake with olives and green onions
This cake is also made from sticks and waffle cakes, but it differs from previous versions in a spicy taste and a difficult combination of products. It is advisable to choose olives immediately without seeds, so that you can quickly cut.
Ingredients
• can of olives;
• 5 cakes;
• 400 g sticks;
• mayonnaise;
• 5 eggs;
• 2 bunches of onions;
• 12 g of garlic;
• 150 g of cheese.
Cooking method
1. Grate cheese in one bowl, eggs in another, sticks in a third, chop green onions separately, split in half.
2. The olives are cut into small cubes, you can slightly set aside for decoration. Pour the crushed product to the eggs, add mayonnaise, stir.
3. Squeeze the garlic to the cheese, also season with mayonnaise.
4. Mix the chopsticks with half the onion, season, stir.
5. We spread the egg mixture on a double waffle cake, spread it over, cover, spread the crab mass, cover it too, then the cheese mixture. Smear thoroughly.
6. We cover the cake with waffle cake, apply mayonnaise, fill it with the remaining green onions, you can decorate with olives, chopsticks.
Crab Cake - Tips & Tricks
• To reduce the fat content of the snack cake, you can mix mayonnaise with sour cream or partially coat with it some layers, for example, cheese or eggs.
• If juicy products, such as pickled or fresh cucumbers, are added to the cake, then they must be squeezed after slicing. From tomatoes it is better to immediately remove seeds with watery parts.
• If the snack cake is made in advance, then do not immediately decorate it, the greens will fade, lose their attractive appearance. It is better to make out before serving.
• Spice foods with great care. Mayonnaise and cheese themselves contain salt; these layers do not need to be salted. Vegetables begin to produce juice when added.
• If you want to give the cake a spicy flavor and add sharp ingredients (garlic, pepper, mustard), then it is best to put it in the sauce, otherwise it will not work out evenly.
