How to cook crab sticks in batter?

Crab sticks - this is an appetizer, already ready foruse. However, our culinary specialists, as a rule, do not seek easy ways and come up with new ways of using this product. Today, no one is surprised by a variety of salads cooked using crab sticks. But the second dish or a hot snack from this product is still rarely prepared. Let's fix this situation and try to make crab sticks in batter.

It is worth noting that this dish can be servednot only "with a heat, with a heat," but also cooled as an original snack. So, to make crab sticks in batter, we need to have in stock a 200-gram package of crab sticks, half a glass (maybe a little more) of flour, a couple of eggs, a little (50 ml) of milk, a lemon. Also need a little greens (dill, parsley) and pepper. For frying, we need about a glass of vegetable oil.

To make delicious crab sticks inthey need to be defrosted beforehand (if a freshly frozen product is used) and marinated. To do this, unfrozen sticks spread in a bowl, sprinkled with salt, pepper, chopped greens. Now take the lemon and cut it into two halves. From the first squeeze juice and send it to a bowl with crab sticks, and the second - cut into very thin mugs and spread on top of the sticks. We remove the bowl in the refrigerator, where our sticks will be marinated for half an hour.

In the meantime, let's prepare the batter. To do this, break the eggs, carefully separate the squirrels and set them on the cold. Stir yolks with milk, salt and flour. And before you start to fry, whip the proteins into the foam and add them to the dough.

Pickled crab sticks are dipped in cooked dumplings and quickly fried in large quantities of oil until a beautiful ruddy crust is formed.

Of course, the above recipe "Crab sticks inclaret "can be modified to your liking. For example, replace the usual batter with a batter cooked on beer. To make a beer batter, you need to divide a couple of eggs into yolks and squirrels. Protein whipped, and mix the yolks with salt, beer and water (beer and water take 70 ml). Then pour into a bowl of yolks about a glass of flour, making sure that the dough for consistency was like thick sour cream. That is, it should not drain off the spoon, but rather slowly "crawl". Then gently enter the half-finished batter whipped with proteins.

And if there is time and desire, it is worth preparingsuch an interesting dish as stuffed crab sticks in batter. On a 200-gram packet of crab sticks, we need about 200 grams of cheese (you can take the usual processed cheese curds), a little mayonnaise and a couple cloves of garlic.

First we prepare the filling, for this we will use cheeseon a fine grater, mixed with chopped garlic and mayonnaise. We need the mass to be thick enough, so it's not worth using much mayonnaise.

Meanwhile, crab sticks should be thawed,and then neatly deployed into a rectangular formation. Put the filling in the middle of the deployed stick, smooth it and roll it again, giving the stick the original shape.

Ready stuffed sticks should be dipped in(traditional or cooked on beer) and fry in deep-fried. To our dish was not too greasy, you should lay out the fried ready-made sticks for paper towels, then the excess oil will be absorbed into the paper. This dish can be fried in a frying pan in a small amount of vegetable oil, but then during the frying the product will need to be turned over so that the dough is evenly browned.

And to turn our crab sticks in batterin a delicious dish, it is worth preparing a sauce for them. For example, sour-garlic. To do this, you need to peel and chop 1-3 cloves of garlic (the amount of garlic is determined depending on the size of the denticles and the desired sharpness of the sauce). Then add the garlic in sour cream (200 grams), there also pour finely chopped greens and pour a teaspoon of lemon juice. Sauce salt, pepper and stir well. Alternatively, you can use soy sauce or ready-made adzhika instead of lemon juice, but then do not add salt to the sauce.