Fun things to do with Surimi Sticks? (Imitation Crab Sticks)

My mother in law often made a version of the recipe below. Her's had a cocktail sauce she made herself, and that was layered with the surimi/shrimp mix in tall glasses with lemon wedges. Always refreshing and delicious to me.

This version also sounds delicious though.

https://www.bigoven.com/recipe/mexican-seafood-cocktail/1749687

Mixed with mayo, green onion, salt, and white pepper and used as a filling for gimbap or onigiri.

Added to instant ramen or noodles with hondashi for some protein.

Shred 'em up, mix with mayo (for a tuna salad style consistency), add Mrs. Dash salt -free Spicy seasoning

Eat on crackers

A good addition to a fish stew/boil. But for me I just melt some butter and throw some old bay in the mix and pretend it's blue crabs from Maryland. I know it's sacreligious, but it's hard to find affordable blue crabs in Philly.

Shred and put on a bed of julienned cucumber. Toast up some panko crumbs in butter until golden and put that and some Sriracha mayo on it.

I'd also like to say that sushi is really easy to make. It's supposed to be super important to use short grain rice cooked in a rice cooker with rice wine vinegar. I totally just use long grain brown rice for health reasons, and it's still really good. All you need besides that is nori and filling. Crab sticks make good California rolls.

Edit: also, making wonton wrappers is easy, just a straightforward unleavened dough you roll into squares or circles.

Kani salad is of course a classic, crabstick with cucumbers, some corn, some carrots, japanese mayo, put it with some lettuce

If you want something a little more complex then there is: sushi bake. Mix the crabstick with cream cheese, mayo, hot sauce. Put cooked rice mixed with some sesame seeds in a baking dish, spread the mixture over it, bake it in the oven. Then, to serve, eat it as is or preferably, take some seaweed strips and sandwich the rice and topping in the seaweed

I’ve been craving deli style seafood salad a ton lately so I’ve made it a bunch in the last month.

If you have the flake kind, just leave it as is, but for sticks, I’d cut in half short wise, they’ll shred naturally when you mix

I add dill relish, sliced green olives, Chopped celery and red onion, and then make a dressing with mayo, lemon juice, fresh or dried rehydrated dill, old bay, salt and pepper and toss the dressing with the salad ingredients

I sub them in for shrimp in alfredo sometimes.

If you cut the sticks into strips and cook them in an air fryer for a few minutes, they make for a tasty snack.

ETA: You can brush them with soy sauce or other flavorings before air frying.

Literally just had it for dinner yesterday. Our 4yr old loves it as build your own hand rolls. Classic shred and mix with mayo and a bit of lemon.

Then make some sushi rice, cut some nori squares, cut avocado and Cucumber. And just build your own little hand rolls and dip in soy sauce.