Salad with beans and crab sticks

4 servings
30 min

How to make a salad with beans and crab sticks? Measure all the ingredients you need. You'll need red canned beans in your own juice, large yellow bell peppers, crab sticks, cherry tomatoes (about 5-6 pcs), delicious hard cheese and spices.

Roll canned beans on a sieve or colander and leave to drain.

Defrost frozen crab sticks beforehand. Without removing the packaging, put them on the cutting board, let them thaw. Now remove the film. If it does not spin well, hold the sticks over the steam for 1-3 seconds. Now cut them into medium-sized cubes.

Wash the bell peppers, dry with paper towels. Halve, peel and chop into large pieces. For the beauty and brightness of the finished dish, you can take half of the pepper in different colors.

Cut the cherry tomatoes into quarters. Tomatoes can be taken and large. In this case, choose fleshy but dense fruits, since the soft ones do not hold their shape well and turn into porridge when cut, which will negatively affect the appearance of the dish. They can be cut into cubes or straws. Drain the juice formed during cutting, it will give the salad extra liquid.

Take the delicious hard cheese and cut it into small cubes. You can replace it with non-brine mozzarella.

In a small container, combine sour cream of any fat content, mayonnaise, garlic passed through the press, salt, ground black pepper in equal proportions. Stir. Adjust the amount of garlic to your liking.

Put crab sticks, bell peppers, canned beans, cherry tomatoes and cheese in the salad bowl. Season the salad with mayonnaise sour cream sauce. The salad can only be seasoned with sour cream without the addition of mayonnaise or thick natural yogurt without additives.

Mix everything well. Salad can be served in a common salad or serving, pre-prepared cremans. You can decorate the dish with sprigs of fresh dill or leaves of curly parsley, basil.