Au jus the cook may simply skim off the fat from the juices left after cooking and bring the remaining meat stock and water to a boil. "Jus" can be frozen for six months or longer, but the flavor may suffer after this time. American recipes "au jus" often use soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, white or brown sugar, garlic, beets, carrots, onion, or other ingredients to make something more like a gravy. The American "jus" is sometimes prepared separately, rather than being produced naturally by the food being cooked. An example could be a beef "jus" made by reducing beef
Crab in oyster sauce Indonesian cuisine. The most popular crab species used in this recipe is mud crab, though blue crab may also be used. The crabs are cut into pieces and stir-fried shortly in wok on strong fire in cooking oil and water, garlic, ginger, onion and scallion, mixed with oyster sauce, soy sauce, "ang ciu" (Chinese cooking wine) and sugar. Then the sauce is being thickening with corn starch and water mixture. The mild umami (savoury) seafood flavour of oyster sauce tends to enhance the natural flavour of the crab. Crab in oyster sauce Crab in oyster sauce or oyster sauce crab