Salad with crab sticks “Christmas wreath”

Salad with crab sticks “Christmas Wreath” is an impressive and budget-friendly dish for the holiday table. Products for its preparation are affordable and can always be purchased at your nearest store. It is preferable to take crab sticks chilled. It is important that they contain surimi, that is, minced fish. You can make Korean carrots yourself or use a store-bought product. Choose young dill greens. It's great if she's homemade.

1. Calories
   157,33 kcal
2. Protein
   6,1 gram
3. Fat
   11,39 gram
4. Carbohydrates
   7,45 gram
5. ~ Time
   5 H 30 Min
6. Pepper
7. Complexity

Products per 6 serving:

1. Crab sticks

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   400 g
2. Canned corn

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   1 can / 300 g = 300 g
3. Korean carrots

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   250 g
4. Chicken egg

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   4 pcs. = 240 g
5. Hard cheese

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   100 g
6. Mayonnaise

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   6 tbsp. l. = 150 g
7. Dill

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   1 bunch = 15 g
8. Carrot

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   1 piece = 100 g

Steps:

1. 
   Remove the packaging from the crab sticks. Boil the eggs hard, cool, peel. Set aside the boiled white of 1 egg for decoration. Wash and boil carrots for decoration. Place the Korean carrots in a colander and let the excess liquid drain. Wash the dill and dry on paper towels. Open the can of canned corn and drain the liquid. Prepare a wide flat dish, a cooking ring and toothpicks.
2. 
   Grind the food. Cut the crab sticks into small cubes. Cut 5 sticks into pieces approximately 5 cm long each. Grind the cheese using a medium-mesh grater. Cut the eggs into small cubes.
3. 
   Assemble the salad. Place the cooking ring on the dish. In a bowl, combine cheese, crab sticks, Korean carrots, canned corn and eggs, season with mayonnaise, mix. Place the resulting mass on a dish around the ring and press lightly. Carefully remove the cooking ring. Place the salad in the refrigerator for 4-5 hours.
4. 
   Distribute fresh dill sprigs on top of the salad, placing them in a circle. Insert toothpicks into the crab sticks so that the edges stick out slightly. Attach pieces of boiled carrots to the ends in the form of a tongue of flame, place “candles” in a circle of the “wreath”. Decorate the salad with flowers cut from egg whites and place a kernel of corn in the center of each.