Salads are loved, probably, all without exception. Someone prefers nourishing and serious options, someone is crazy about salads with exotic ingredients, but someone likes to eat simple vegetable salads. But there are among these popularly revered dishes and such that everyone will like. It is not an exception and a salad of Chinese cabbage with crab sticks. Chinese (Peking) cabbage equaled by popularity with our "old lady" white-headed. And it is more convenient to cut it (plus from the hostesses), and the taste is more gentle (extra point from gourmets), and in general, what is it worse? Yes, nothing! So we are preparing salads with Chinese cabbage, diluting them with all sorts of additional ingredients. And as for crab sticks, and not worth talking about: the recent exotic, which has become accessible to everyday life. Convenient, tasty, fast! And only this is enough to build crab sticks in the favorites of modern home cooking. So let's prepare a salad of Peking cabbage with crab sticks! And here are the recipes to choose from. 
Classic crab salad
It so happened that the classic crabsalad is a salad made from chopsticks, cabbage and canned corn. True, some put in this salad is not corn, and boiled friable rice. About fifteen years ago such a salad was prepared exclusively on holidays. And today it has become a familiar everyday dish. Although it is possible to cook it on a festive table (traditionally). Ingredients:
- 1 package of crab sticks;
- 1 can of sweet corn;
- 1 fork of Chinese cabbage;
- 3 eggs;
- Mayonnaise and salt.
Preparation: Prepare a salad will not be difficult for anyone! First, cook and chill the eggs. Then we'll chop the cabbage, which we will wash beforehand and get rid of thick white stems, and also unfreeze the packing of crab sticks. We will cut the sticks the way we like it (it's not important), and with the corn we will sweet marinade. Diced eggs, crab sticks, corn and cabbage in a bowl, add salt, add mayonnaise and mix. We serve (and eat) the salad chilled. 
Crab salad with cabbage and tomatoes
Summer version of crab salad. While the season of vegetables is in full swing, we will, as they say, catch the moment, and add this salad with fresh tomatoes. Well, cheese, of course, how about tomatoes without cheese? Ingredients:
- 1 head of Chinese cabbage;
- 1 small package (6 pieces) of crab sticks;
- 3 ripe juicy tomatoes;
- 100 g of ordinary hard cheese;
- Mayonnaise for refueling.
Preparation: Cabbage, we cut off the head with dense stems, and the leaves shred (cut into strips). Chopsticks are thawed and also cut with slabs or straws. We chopped tomatoes into small cubes, and chop the cheese into shavings. Then mix all the ingredients, add salt if desired and fill our creation with mayonnaise. Salad with Chinese cabbage and crab sticks ready! Before the meal, we cool it and serve it with fresh herbs.
Crab salad with cabbage and apple
Completely dietary salad, especially if you fill it with light mayonnaise or low-fat sour cream. Ingredients:
- 1 fork of Chinese cabbage;
- 3 eggs;
- 1 small package of crab sticks;
- 1 apple;
- 1 onion;
- Salt and mayonnaise (sour cream).
Preparation: We'll wash the cabbage, dry it and chop it with small straws. Defrosted sticks and eggs, hard-boiled, cut into cubes. With the apple peel off the skin and remove the hard core with the seeds, and then cut it into strips. Shred the onion in a bowl, salted and remember with his hands, so that he gave the juice. Let's add to cabbage cabbage, sticks, apple and eggs, and then season the salad with sour cream or mayonnaise. Before you serve the salad on the table, let's cool it. 
"Sea shell" salad
You can not say "unpretentious" about this salad. Very even intricate. Every day, of course, get busy with it troublesome, but that's for a great holiday just right. Surprise the guests! Ingredients:
- 1 head of Chinese cabbage;
- 1 package of crab sticks;
- 1 fresh ripe tomato;
- 100 g of cheese (solid);
- 3 garlic cloves;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 carrot;
- 100 grams of shrimp.
For "cockleshells" of dough:
- 1 cup of cold water;
- 1 cup of flour;
- 1 egg;
- 1 teaspoon of sugar;
- Vegetable oil for deep-frying (2 cups).
Preparation: This salad with crab sticks is unusual for the original way of serving and decoration. We will stack it in "pearls", which we will make of dough, and pearls themselves will be placed in "sea shells" from cabbage leaves. So, first we prepare the dough. We break into a bowl one raw egg, add a pinch of salt, a teaspoon of sugar and lightly beat it with a glass of cold water. After that, pour in the flour and knead the batter (like pancakes). In the saucepan we warm up the vegetable oil. The dishes should be deep enough to allow oil to be poured into it at a height of about eight centimeters. By the way, while we are doing the test, we can put eggs and carrots. When the oil is hot, we take an ordinary metal ladle, dip it with a convex side into the dough so that it does not fill the edge of the ladle. Then we lower the ladle into the boiling oil and wait for the dough to be fried. We listen to the ladle and remove from it half of the "pearl" - a golden hemisphere of crispy dough. Having made the right amount of such "cups", we leave them cool, having put them in a colander or on the grill, so that the glass is superfluous. Now proceed directly to the salad. Oh yes! First, with a cabbage head, we'll take ten (or more) whole leaves, which will become the flaps for our shells. In now, the remaining cabbage we chop finely and finely, and rub it with salt. Boiled eggs, half a cooled boiled carrots, defrosted crab sticks and tomato cut into small pieces, cheese rubbed into shavings, and garlic grind on a grater or garlic. Then mix all the ingredients and dress the salad with mayonnaise. Now we wash and dry the cabbage leaves on plates: put one leaf flat, and the second one wrap it in the shape of a shell and set it vertically. To prevent the "leaf" from falling, we install a "pearl" filled with a salad (we put a salad in one ladle, cover the other half with it). Almost done. It remains only to "paint" wrap leaflets and decorate the dish. For decoration, we cut out starfish from the remaining carrot halves and arrange them together with shrimps (in a shell) on a plate. And you can go broke, buy red caviar and paint eggs on plates. And for a complete illusion of the seabed, "plant" algae from sea kale, and in addition to shrimp put on plates and marinated octopus. Miracle salad is ready! Believe me, it will become a real highlight of the program and will make an unforgettable impression on the guests. And How? Dare to make a splash by making the original crab salad "Sea shell"? However, a salad with tender leaves of Peking cabbage and people's favorite crab sticks will be good in traditional execution. So prepare this salad on weekdays and on holidays, please yourself and others. Cook with pleasure, and a pleasant appetite for you! We advise you to read:
