What is oyster sauce? How to use oyster sauce?

Oyster sauce is not oil
Oyster sauce first appeared in Guangdong, so far almost 200 years of history, at first in Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan and other regions are more common, in recent years is gradually popular in the country, the taste and efficacy of the country have gained the recognition of the people, known by consumers.
Because of the name of the word oil, so many people think that oyster sauce is a kind of fat, but according to the oyster sauce nutritional composition table shows that the oil consumption almost no fat content.
According to the definition of GB/T 21999-2008 Oyster Sauce, oyster sauce is a condiment made by utilizing the juice of oysters after steaming and boiling for concentration or directly enzymatically dissolving with oyster meat, and adding raw materials such as sugar, salt, starch or modified starch, supplemented with other ingredients and food additives.
Function of Oyster Sauce
Oyster sauce is essentially a kind of seasoning used to moisturize and increase freshness. The body is relatively uniform, the degree of viscosity is moderate, generally reddish brown or brown, with a certain degree of gloss, with the ingredients to cook together, there is the effect of enhancing the appetite, compared to the soy sauce, its fresh flavor will appear more rich with the degree of some. And oyster sauce in addition to the most basic flavoring function, there is an extremely rich nutritional value. The most important is the amino acids, zinc and taurine, on the human body health help or quite big.
The use of oyster sauce: 1, fried vegetables
This is the most common and also used in a way, especially for all kinds of vegetables, to increase the aroma and freshness of the effect is really particularly good, but it should be noted that the use of the best is to add before the flame, because of sustained cooking high temperature will lead to its freshness and nutrition are suffering damage.
2, dip this needless to say, similar to eat hot pot, we should all use it.
3, mixing fillings such as making dumpling filling, add some in moderation, the filling will appear extraordinarily delicious.
4, barbecue this know people may not be too much, but you can try, oyster sauce used as a barbecue use, the effect that is also quite good.
This 8 oyster sauce wrong use of law do not use
To give you a detailed explanation of the 8 oyster sauce wrong use of law, these 8 must not be used again, otherwise it will lead to dishes difficult to swallow.
1. oyster sauce can not be fried for a long time regardless of what dishes, oyster sauce can not be fried for a long time, long frying will lead to oyster sauce to lose the fresh flavor, reduce nutrition, generally to wait for the dishes to start the pot and then add, is the best.
2. spicy dishes do not put oyster sauce to do spicy dishes, if you add oyster sauce, will completely destroy the flavor of the ingredients, resulting in dishes difficult to eat, a complete waste of oyster sauce.
3. oyster sauce can not be shared with sugar, chicken essence, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce oyster sauce can not be shared with sugar, chicken essence, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce and other seasonings, because oyster sauce has a strong ability to enhance freshness, if you add these, it will cover the freshness of the oyster sauce, a variety of seasonings mixed together, it will destroy the flavor of the ingredients.
4. oyster sauce can not add too much oyster sauce itself is concentrated, add more will not be able to eat the original flavor of the ingredients, a bowl of vegetables, up to 5ml of oyster sauce can be.
5. oyster sauce can not be used directly if you use oyster sauce directly, will lead to the fresh flavor of oyster sauce is not obvious, generally need to be heated and then used, such as coleslaw, coleslaw lettuce, need to first oyster sauce and fresh soup boil thickening, and then poured into the ingredients, so that we can eat out of the oyster sauce of the fresh taste and flavor.
6. oyster sauce need to be refrigerated to save every fried dishes with oyster sauce, you need to seal the cap, and then put in the refrigerator for refrigeration, if you do not pay attention to the storage, it will lead to oyster sauce moldy, destroying the flavor of the ingredients.
7. Oyster sauce can not be cooked for a long time because the oyster sauce itself is fresh, if cooked for a long time, it will lead to oyster sauce flavor and freshness dissipated, and stir-fried vegetables, need to add the best when the pot is almost ready.
8. oyster sauce dishes less salt oyster sauce itself contains a lot of salt, cooking and then put a lot of salt, it will lead to food is very difficult to swallow, no matter what kind of food, as long as the oyster sauce, salt should be reduced by about half the amount!