Recipes with Oyster sauce
10 recipes
There are 10 recipes here that use Oyster sauce, and every one of them is scored against what is actually in your fridge before it is shown. The quickest is Bok Choy with Mushrooms at 10 minutes; the longest, Rice Cooker Chicken Rice, takes 50. 8 of them finish in twenty minutes or less, which is usually what matters on a weeknight.
None of these need an oven, an air fryer, or a microwave — a stove and a pan is enough. 6 have no chili at all, so they work for children.
Oyster sauce turns up most often alongside Soy sauce, Onion, Cornstarch and Mustard greens — if you have one or two of those as well, more of this list becomes cookable tonight rather than after a shopping trip. Add what you have to your fridge and the recipes reorder themselves around it, with anything missing collected into a shopping list.
Saucy Mixed Vegetables
The most efficient way to clear six kinds of vegetables before they all wilt.
⏱ 20 min🍽 4 servingsEasy
Butter Soy Chicken
Sweet, savoury, and buttery. The recipe that reliably gets children to finish their rice.
⏱ 25 min🍽 4 servingsEasy
Mushrooms in Oyster Sauce
Mushrooms seared hard without constant stirring turn brown instead of watery.
⏱ 15 min🍽 3 servingsEasy
Stir-Fried Flat Rice Noodles
Heat as high as it goes, and do not stir too often or the noodles fall apart.
⏱ 20 min🍽 2 servingsMedium
Bok Choy with Mushrooms
Eight minutes, two fresh ingredients, and it stays bright green if the heat is high.
⏱ 10 min🍽 3 servingsEasy
Black Pepper Beef
Heat as high as it goes, beef sliced thin against the grain. Fifteen minutes, and it never turns tough.
⏱ 20 min🍽 3 servingsMedium
Sausage and Green Beans
The fastest way to get children to eat green beans: cut them to sausage length so both land on the spoon together.
⏱ 15 min🍽 3 servingsEasy
Prawns and Broccoli in Oyster Sauce
Prawns cook in ninety seconds. Everything else must be ready before they hit the pan.
⏱ 15 min🍽 3 servingsEasy
Green Beans with Beef
Slice the beef as thin as possible, cook it first, then remove it. Cooked together with the beans, one of them always comes out wrong.
⏱ 20 min🍽 3 servingsMedium
Rice Cooker Chicken Rice
Everything goes in at once, one button, forty minutes. The rice absorbs the chicken stock as it cooks.
⏱ 50 min🍽 4 servingsEasy