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Oyster sauce Recipes

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12 recipes

Singapore Chili Crab with crab, chili and garlic — Singapore recipe

🇸🇬SingaporeAdvanced

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Singapore Chili Crab

Singapore's national dish — whole crab braised in a glossy sweet-spicy tomato-chili sauce with garlic, ginger, and egg ribbons. Created in 1950s Singapore and eaten with your hands, mopping up every drop of sauce with warm mantou buns.

45 min500 kcal1 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Pad Kra Pao (Thai Basil Chicken) with chicken, basil and garlic — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Meat Dishes

Pad Kra Pao (Thai Basil Chicken)

Thailand’s most popular everyday street food — minced chicken stir-fried with garlic, fresh chili, and holy basil in a savory oyster-fish sauce glaze. Finished with a crispy fried egg on top and a drizzle of runny yolk over jasmine rice. Ready in under 15 minutes.

25 min300 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein⚡Quick

Char Siu (Cantonese BBQ Pork) with pork, honey and hoisin sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Meat Dishes

Char Siu (Cantonese BBQ Pork)

A jewel of Cantonese cuisine — pork neck marinated overnight in honey, soy sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin, and Chinese five-spice, then roasted until deeply caramelized with charred edges and a lacquered glaze. 'Char' means fork, 'Siu' means roast. Served with rice, noodles, or stuffed into steamed buns.

45 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Beef and Broccoli Stir-Fry with beef, broccoli and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Beef and Broccoli Stir-Fry

Thinly sliced flank steak velveted in cornstarch, seared at screaming-hot heat, then combined with crisp broccoli in a glossy oyster-soy brown sauce. The most popular Chinese-American stir-fry — ready in 30 minutes and better than takeout if you follow the technique.

30 min390 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Chicken Stir-Fry with Vegetables with chicken, soy sauce and garlic — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Chicken Stir-Fry with Vegetables

Chicken thighs and whatever vegetables you have, cooked over maximum heat in a soy-sesame-ginger sauce. The fastest way to clear the fridge without the result tasting like leftovers. Done in 20 minutes if the prep is ready.

25 min350 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Fried Rice with rice, egg and garlic — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Fried Rice

Day-old cooked rice stir-fried over maximum heat with eggs, vegetables, and soy sauce until every grain is separate, lightly smoky, and coated in sauce. The technique is simple — but two things determine everything: the rice must be cold and dry, and the heat must be as high as your stove allows. Get those right and fried rice is one of the fastest, most satisfying things you can make.

20 min420 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry with chicken breast, broccoli and soy sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Meat Dishes

Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry

Thin strips of chicken and broccoli florets cooked fast in a hot pan, then coated in a glossy brown sauce built on soy, oyster sauce, ginger, and garlic. Ready in 25 minutes, high in protein.

25 min320 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

Egg Fried Noodles with egg noodles, eggs and soy sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Egg Fried Noodles

Egg fried noodles are a Chinese stir-fry of wheat egg noodles with scrambled egg, carrot, bean sprouts and scallions in a soy-based sauce, an everyday home dish. It takes 20 minutes, a pot for the noodles and a wok. The noodles must be well drained and the wok properly hot; get those two right and the rest follows. The eggs set at the side of the wok and are broken into large pieces, and the sauce goes onto the hot wall of the wok so it caramelizes at once.

20 min710 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick

Lo Mein with noodles, oyster sauce and soy sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Lo Mein

Soft egg noodles stir-fried with vegetables and protein in a glossy, savory sauce built on oyster sauce, light and dark soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, and sesame oil. Lo mein (捞面) translates from Cantonese as 'stirred noodles' — the name describes the cooking method, a scooping, tossing motion that coats every strand. Unlike chow mein, where the noodles are fried until crispy, lo mein noodles stay soft and slippery, coated in a thick, glossy sauce. The dark soy sauce is the detail that gives the dish its characteristic deep mahogany color; without it the dish looks pale. The sauce is premixed before the wok goes on — lo mein moves fast.

25 min570 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick

Yakisoba (Japanese Stir-Fried Noodles) with noodles, Worcestershire sauce and oyster sauce — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Yakisoba (Japanese Stir-Fried Noodles)

Japanese stir-fried wheat noodles with pork belly (or chicken), cabbage, onion, and carrot, tossed in a tangy-sweet Worcestershire-based sauce. Yakisoba (焼きそば) means 'grilled noodles' — it was born in post-war Japan, sold at outdoor teppan stalls and school festivals, and has been a beloved fast food ever since. The sauce is what defines yakisoba: Worcestershire provides the backbone tang, oyster sauce the umami depth, ketchup the fruity sweetness, and soy sauce the salt. Made at home in 20 minutes with a single pan, it tastes exactly like the stall version. The traditional finish — pickled red ginger and dried seaweed flakes — takes it from good to unmistakably Japanese.

20 min540 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick

Cơm Tấm (Vietnamese Broken Rice) with broken rice, pork chops and fish sauce — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Cơm Tấm (Vietnamese Broken Rice)

Cơm tấm (com tam, Vietnamese broken rice) is a southern Vietnamese plate built on broken rice — gạo tấm, the grains that fracture during milling, once the cheap leftovers that rice workers and poor farmers kept for themselves — and it is most closely associated with Saigon. The usual order is a lemongrass-marinated grilled pork chop (sườn nướng) with a fried egg, cucumber and tomato, pickled carrot and daikon (đồ chua), scallion oil, and a bowl of nước chấm to spoon over everything as you eat. The small grains soak up sauce better than whole rice. Plan on about an hour of work, plus 2 hours for the marinade.

60 min1010 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Pad See Ew with wide rice noodles, dark soy sauce and Chinese broccoli — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Pad See Ew

The Thai stir-fry of wide rice noodles seared in a hot wok with chicken, egg, and Chinese broccoli, coated in a sweet-savoury sauce of dark and light soy. It's the mild, smoky counterpart to pad thai — no tamarind, no peanuts, no chili heat built in — and it lives on the char that only a screaming-hot pan can give.

25 min600 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌶️Spicy

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