Rice and Crab salad fast and easy!

Posted in: Appetizer, Fish, Recipes, Salad, Side dish
This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series Salad

This salad recipe is good with crab meat (as well as imitated crab meat) and shrimps (or you can use both), corn adds sweetness to the salad, rice works as the base of this salad. You can cook it without rice if you wish, but I prefer it with rice, and herbs (dill and parsley, or just dill) are important.

This recipe appeared in my menu, when we lived in Russian Far East near China. I love to cook this salad on a day to day basis or for a dinner party. (Just serve the salad in puff pastry baskets).

The ingredients for this salad are simple and may be found in every pantry.

1 cup of rice

3/4 cup of canned corn

1 cup of chopped crab meat (or imitated crab meat flakes made of fish)

1 carrot

2 eggs

1/2 white onion

1/2 cup of dill

1 pinch of salt

1 pinch of black pepper

4 tablespoons of mayo

Wash and boil carrot, in separate pot wash and boil rice, in separate pot boil eggs (until hard boiled). Rice has to be boiled but not too soft and over cooked. Carrot has to be cooked, but not overcooked.

When the rice is cooked, drain it and rinse with cold water.

Eggs: when cooked (in 6-8 min) put in cold water to cool off.

Carrot drain and let it cool down.

Peel and finely chop the onion (1/2 of it)

Drain and rinse the corn (3/4 of a cup)

Peel and finely chop the carrot.

When rice cooled off, mix it with carrot,onion and corn.

Shell and cut  the eggs, wash and chop the dill.

Crab meat: now here you can use: the real crab meat, the imitated crab meat flakes or even shrimps. (I was using imitated crab meat) cut the crab meat in mid-sized pieces and add to your salad.

Add salt, pepper to your salad and mix all the ingredients well.

Add mayonnaise before serving. Enjoy!

 

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7 Responses to Rice and Crab salad fast and easy!

  • Giulietta @ Alterkitchen

    Replied on: August 22, 2011, 7:42 pm

    Well, easy and tasty.. a perfect mix!

    • helenscooking

      Replied on: August 22, 2011, 7:58 pm

      Thank you! It sure is!!!

  • Blackswan

    Replied on: August 23, 2011, 12:24 am

    Very interesting! I haven’t tried salad with rice before :)

  • Naoko

    Replied on: August 23, 2011, 2:43 am

    This looks delicious, I just used all my fresh crab meat the other day. Need to tell the hubby to get more for this dish.

    • helenscooking

      Replied on: August 23, 2011, 8:13 pm

      Yup it’s soo, good!

  • Carolyn

    Replied on: August 23, 2011, 11:07 am

    Looks wonderful and light. I love crab!

    • helenscooking

      Replied on: August 23, 2011, 8:13 pm

      It’s delicious! Thanks!

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