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Oyster sauce

Also called oyster ketchup

Oyster sauce is a condiment made with oysters and water. Cooks use it to season food and in stir-fries.

Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Oyster sauce, packaged

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In the kitchen

How to use oyster sauce

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Season
  • Stir fry

Made from

Nutrition

What 100 g of oyster sauce holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 11%Fat 2%Carbohydrate 87%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of oyster sauce
Energy51 kcal · 213 kJ
Protein1.4 g
Fat0.25 g
of which saturated0.04 g
Carbohydrate11 g
of which sugars0 g
Fibre0.3 g
Sodium2,733 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of oyster sauce: minerals and vitamins
Potassium54 mg
Calcium32 mg
Iron0.18 mg
Magnesium4 mg
Zinc0.09 mg
Vitamin C0.1 mg
Folate15 µg
Vitamin B120.41 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 174529), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

On the table

Dishes made with oyster sauce

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Sapo tahu

    Indonesia

  • Babi kecap

    Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include oyster sauce.

Family

Related forms

A kind of
sauce

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What oyster sauce is called

Names in 34 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Salsa de ostras · Salsa de ostra

  • French

    sauce d'huître

  • Italian

    salsa di ostriche

  • Portuguese

    molho de ostra

  • German

    Austernsauce · Austernsoße

  • Dutch

    Oestersaus

  • Turkish

    İstiridye sosu · oyster sos

  • Russian

    устричный соус

  • Polish

    Sos ostrygowy

  • Arabic

    صلصة المحار

  • Persian

    سس صدف

  • Hebrew

    רוטב צדפות

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  • Armenian

    Ոստրեի սոուս

  • Cantonese

    蠔油

  • Catalan

    salsa d'ostres

  • cdo

    Hò̤-ìu

  • Chinese

    蠔油 · 蚝油

  • Esperanto

    ostrosaŭco

  • Estonian

    Austrikaste

  • Finnish

    osterikastike

  • Indonesian

    Saus tiram

  • Japanese

    オイスターソース · カキ油

  • Javanese

    Saos tiram

  • Khmer

    ទឹកប្រេងខ្យង

  • Korean

    굴소스 · 오이스터소스 · 오이스터 소스 · 하오유오호

  • Latin

    Liquamen ostrearum

  • Latvian

    austeru mērce

  • Malay

    Sos tiram

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    Østerssaus · Haoyou

  • Slovenian

    Omaka iz ostrig

  • Swedish

    Ostronsås

  • Thai

    ซอสหอยนางรม · น้ำมันหอย

  • Ukrainian

    Устричний соус

  • Vietnamese

    Dầu hào

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q780827

Photos

Photo: Gossipguy · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons