How to Prepare Tasty Oyster Sauce

How to Prepare Tasty Oyster Sauce Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Oyster Sauce. Oyster sauce is dark brown, almost black in color, and has a thick consistency. It is used in both meat and vegetable dishes, mainly in Cantonese, Thai, and Vietnamese cuisines. Oyster sauce is similar in price to soy sauce but can range in cost depending on the brand.

Oyster sauce is made from oyster juices and other ingredients that give more flavor to it, while fish sauce has only two ingredients - fermented fish and salt.

This is why oyster sauce and fish sauce are completely different in flavor, aroma, color, and consistency.

Quite like soy sauce, fish sauce is exceptionally salty.

You can cook Oyster Sauce using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Oyster Sauce

1. Prepare 1/4 kg of peeled and deveined large shrimp.

2. It’s 1/4 kg of calamari sliced.

3. It’s 2 of knorr cube.

4. It’s 4 tbsp of vegetable oil.

5. Prepare 2 cloves of garlic mince.

6. You need 1 of onion slice in large chunk.

7. Prepare 3 tbsp of oyster sauce.

8. It’s 2 tbsp of sesame oil.

9. You need 3 tbsp of soy sauce.

10. You need 1 tbsp of brown sugar.

11. Prepare 3 of red bell julienned.

12. Prepare 3 of green bell pepper, julienned.

13. Prepare to taste of salt.

14. It’s 4 of fresh pepper dice.

15. It’s 3 of knorr cube.

16. Prepare 2 tbsp of cornstarch, dissolved in 3 tbsp water.

17. It’s 5 stalks of spring onions dice.

18. Prepare 3 tbsp of veg oil.

19. It’s of secret spice.

Oyster sauce is a staple ingredient in most Cantonese, Thai, and even Vietnamese dishes.

It is made by mixing caramelized oyster juice with salt and sugar, and sometimes with soy (thickened with cornstarch).

Caramelized oyster juice is nothing but a byproduct that is derived by cooking oysters for a long time.

Oyster sauce is thick, like sugar.

Oyster Sauce instructions

1. Preheat a pan, add veg oil and sesame oil and once its hot marinate prawn and calamari with secret spice and fry the prawn and calamari and remove from the heat once its ready.

2. Add onions and garlic and stir fry for about 2 minutes then add the knorr cube, secret spice, pepper, salt and stir in soy sauce and oyster then add sugar.

3. Stir in little water and then add in cornstarch and mix everything together and then taste then add the prawns and calamari.

4. Allow it cook for another 2 minutes and then add bell pepper and then add the spring onions after 2 minutes.

5. Remove from heat and serve.

Oyster Sauce is a thick, salty, oyster-flavored Asian flavored condiment (sauce) called ho yau in Cantonese and mostly sold in bottles, sometimes in cans.

Thai oyster sauce tends to have more of an "oyster" flavor than the products from China.

If you're wondering what can I substitute for oyster sauce, here are some good options.

Find Oyster Sauce ideas, recipes & cooking techniques for all levels from Bon Appétit, where food and culture meet.

Make sure that the oyster is loose in the shell before serving.