Recipe: Tasty Sinangag – Filipino Garlic Fried Rice

Sinangag – Filipino Garlic Fried Rice. Filipino garlic fried rice is typically served for breakfast with Filipino omelettes and banana ketchup. If you don't want to make the omelettes, you can also simply serve your fried rice topped with fried eggs. Just thinking about a runny-yolk egg over this garlic-y goodness is enough to send us to the kitchen to make another batch!

Served alongside a fried egg with some Tocino, Tapa, or Longanisa, it's a key part of breakfast in the Philippines. Breakfast in the Philippines is built on sinangag, or cooked rice tossed with garlic and oil. For us, the smell of sinangag cooking is better than waking up to the aroma of coffee. You can cook Sinangag – Filipino Garlic Fried Rice using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sinangag – Filipino Garlic Fried Rice

1. It's 2 cups of cooked white rice.
2. It's 2 tablespoons of canola oil.
3. You need 5 cloves of garlic, minced.
4. It's 1 teaspoon of salt.
5. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of freshly ground pepper.
6. Prepare 1 teaspoon of garlic powder.

Sinangag (Garlic Fried Rice) Filipino Garlic Fried is a hearty and delicious side dish to your favorite meals. Hot and toasty with crisp garlic bits, sinangag is the best use for leftover steamed rice. Sinangag is garlic fried rice and, most importantly, it's also a Filipino breakfast staple. Mom would always make a big batch of sinangag with pork tocino and longanisa to start off the family's day.

Sinangag – Filipino Garlic Fried Rice step by step

1. Heat oil in a large/wide skillet..
2. Add the garlic. Stir fry the garlic until it turns to light golden brown. Remove some of the garlic and drain on paper towels..
3. Add the rice. Season with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Stir fry the rice until it turns to light brown..
4. Transfer to a serving plate. Garnish with fried garlic (and parsley or scallion if you like). Enjoy with a sunny-side up egg! 😉.

The garlic is the main ingredient in this sinangag recipe well aside from the rice. The fried garlic gives an irresistible aroma and a distinctive flavor. Sinangag is best paired with fried eggs and cured Beef or Tapa. Thus, the name Tapsilog or Tapa, Sinangag and Egg (fried rice). Sinangag or Garlic Fried Rice has been a favorite part of every Filipino breakfast.