Oyster sauce

Condiment made by cooking oysters

Oyster sauce describes a number of sauces made by cooking oysters. The most common in modern use is a viscous dark brown condiment made from oyster extracts, sugar, salt and water, thickened with corn starch (though original oyster sauce reduced the unrefined sugar through heating, resulting in a naturally thick sauce due to caramelization, not the addition of corn starch). Today, some commercial versions are darkened with caramel, though high-quality oyster sauce is naturally dark.

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