CRAB SALAD WITH SHRIMPS

Nice, quick, very tasty, for a festive table! You can make a crab shrimp salad in a maximum of 30 minutes. In addition to mayonnaise, you can season it with sour cream or natural yogurt, thereby reducing the calorie content. You can serve it for a romantic dinner with white wine.

Ingredients

• Crab sticks200 gr
• Shrimps200 gr
• Chinese cabbage 200 gr
• Pineapples 150 gr
• Pomegranate100 gr
• Hard cheese 80 gr
• Mayonnaise 3 tablespoons

Directions

1. How to make shrimp crab salad? Prepare the ingredients according to the list. Wash the cabbage, dry and tear it into small pieces with your hands, using only the soft green part of the leaves. Shrimp can be used fresh or frozen. How to defrost shrimp? Do this on the bottom shelf of your refrigerator.
2. How to cook shrimp? Pour water into a large saucepan. The volume of liquid should be twice the volume of seafood. Salt with ordinary, or better sea salt (1 tablespoon per 1 liter of water). When it boils, send the unpeeled shrimp to the saucepan. Bring them to a second boil and turn off the heat immediately. Small shrimps are boiled for no more than 2 minutes. Royal or brindle - 3-7 minutes.
3. Be careful not to overcook the shrimp or overexpose them in hot water, otherwise they will not be as soft as you would like. Discard in a colander, rinse with cold water, or place in a bowl of ice. Peel the chilled shrimp.
4. Disassemble the ripe pomegranate into individual seeds.
5. If the crab sticks you are using are frozen, thaw them. Without removing the packaging, put them on a cutting board, let them thaw. Now remove the cellophane wrap. If it does not spin well, hold the sticks over the steam for 1-3 seconds. Cut the crab sticks into semicircles.
6. Throw canned pineapples out of the jar in a colander, let the syrup drain. Cut the fruit into small pieces.
7. Cut the hard cheese into medium cubes. Try to cut the crab sticks and cheese into the same size cubes, so the salad will look prettier. You can take any cheese, semi-hard, soft, according to your taste.
8. Combine shrimp, crab sticks, Chinese cabbage, pineapple and pomegranate in a bowl of suitable size.
9. Season the salad with mayonnaise and stir. You can prepare the dressing by mixing sour cream and mayonnaise in equal proportions or using one sour cream, natural yogurt without additives.
10. How to buy shrimp correctly? It is better to buy frozen seafood, but make sure that there is not too much ice and snow in the package. The carapace should be free of damage and stains. The more curled the tail of crustaceans, the fresher they are. If the shrimp meat has a yellowish tint, it is not a good sign. This seafood is best left in the store.