Chinese Oyster Sauce Gravy
This sauce is quick and easy to make! Chinese sauce thickened with starch is a classic of traditional Chinese cooking. The finished sauce is sweet and sour and works as a seasoning for meat dishes and stir-fried vegetables. It also dresses up simple sides like rice or glass noodles.
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Chinese Oyster Sauce Gravy
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 17 %
4 g
Fats 0 %
0 g
Carbohydrates 83 %
19 g
78 kcal
GI:
47
/
0
/
53
- Traditional Chinese cuisine is one of the oldest in the world, and many people see it as something exotic — which makes it seem incredibly hard to pull off. But once you grasp a few basic principles, Chinese dishes are very easy to make at home. They get their complex taste and aroma from a fairly large set of ingredients, and nearly every dish is seasoned with special sauces. These are usually thin enough to soak into the food, or thick enough to cling to and coat the finished dish. Chinese sauces are very often built on brown soy sauce. One such traditional sauce is this Chinese sauce thickened with starch, where the starch acts as the thickener — it makes the sauce thicker and smoother so it coats the dish and gives it a zesty sweet-and-sour flavor. The sauce is very simple to make. You'll need a small, clean saucepan. Pour in the cooled chicken broth, the oyster sauce, and the soy sauce, and add the brown sugar. Stir everything together. Then carefully stir in the cornstarch (if you don't have it, you can use regular potato starch) and mix thoroughly so there are no clumps or lumps. Set the pan over the heat, bring to a boil, and simmer over low heat until the sauce thickens to the consistency you want, stirring constantly the whole time. The recipe is very simple — the key is to keep the finished sauce lump-free. Chinese starch-thickened sauce is best served over pieces of veal and stir-fried vegetables. Just before serving, you can stir chopped green onions into the finished sauce.
- Enjoy!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Soy sauce - 51 kcal/100g
- Green onion - 19 kcal/100g
- Brown sugar - 394 kcal/100g
- Corn flour - 368 kcal/100g
- Whole-grain corn flour, unsifted - 355 kcal/100g
- Whole-grain corn flour, sifted - 362 kcal/100g
- Degermed corn flour, fortified - 364 kcal/100g
- Degermed corn flour, unfortified - 364 kcal/100g
- Oyster sauce - 121 kcal/100g
- Chicken broth - 19 kcal/100g
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