Sinangag

{{Short description|Filipino fried rice dish}} {{Distinguish|Sinigang}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Use Philippine English|date=September 2022}} {{Infobox prepared food | name = Sinangag | image = File:09530jfCuisine Foods Fruits Philippines Baliuag Bulacanfvf 22.jpg

| image_size = 250px | caption = Garlic fried rice with optional meat scraps. | alternate_name = Garlic fried rice, garlic rice, Filipino fried rice, Philippine fried rice, kinirog (Ilocano) | country = Philippines | region = Philippines, also popular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore | creator = Filipino cuisine | course = Main course (breakfast) | served = | main_ingredient = Fried rice, garlic | variations = Aligue rice, bagoong fried rice | similar_dish = ''Morisqueta tostada'' | calories = | other = }} '''''Sinangag''''' ({{IPA|tl|sinɐˈŋag}}), also called '''garlic fried rice''' or '''garlic rice''', is a Filipino fried rice dish cooked by stir-frying pre-cooked rice with garlic. The rice used is preferably stale, usually leftover cooked rice from the previous day, as it results in rice that is slightly fermented and firmer. It is optionally garnished with toasted garlic flakes and sometimes chopped scallions. The rice grains are ideally loose and not stuck together.<ref name="Cabrera">{{cite web |last1=Cabrera |first1=Maryanne |title=Sinangag Filipino Garlic Fried Rice |url=https://www.thelittleepicurean.com/2018/04/sinangag-filipino-garlic-fried-rice.html |website=The Little Epicurean |date=April 18, 2018 |access-date=January 20, 2019}}</ref><ref name=merano/><ref name=kp>{{cite web |title=Sinangag |url=https://www.kawalingpinoy.com/sinangag/ |website=Kawaling Pinoy |access-date=January 20, 2019}}</ref><ref name="ffr"/><ref name="Luto ni Lola">{{cite web |title=Recipe #21: SINANGAG (Garlic Fried Rice) |url=http://www.lutonilola.net/2011/04/recipe-21-garlic-fried-rice-sinangag/ |website=Luto ni Lola |access-date=January 20, 2019}}</ref>

It is rarely eaten on its own, but is usually paired with a "dry" meat dish such as tocino (bacon), ''longganisa'' (sausage), ''tapa'' (dried or cured meat), Spam, or ''daing'' (dried fish), as well as the addition of scrambled or fried eggs. Unlike other types of fried rice, it does not normally use ingredients other than garlic, in order not to overwhelm the flavour of the main dish.<ref name="Cabrera"/><ref name=merano/><ref name="ffr"/><ref name="Luto ni Lola"/> In the Visayas regions of the Philippines, ''sinangag'' was traditionally seasoned with ''asín tibuok''.<ref name="flavours">{{cite web |title=Tultul "Rock" salt from Guimaras |url=https://flavoursofiloilo.blogspot.com/2012/11/tultul-rock-salt-from-guimaras.html |website=Flavours of Iloilo |access-date=December 19, 2018}}</ref>

''Sinangag'' is a common part of a traditional Filipino breakfast and is usually prepared with leftover rice from the dinner before. Sometimes, it is cooked in the leftover sauces and oils from Philippine adobo, lessening food waste. Preparing ''sinangag'' from freshly-cooked rice is frowned upon in Filipino culture. It is one of the components of the ''tapsilog'' breakfast and its derivatives.<ref name="Cabrera"/><ref name=merano>{{cite web|url=https://panlasangpinoy.com/2014/07/30/sinangag-recipe/|title=Sinangag Recipe|author=Vanjo Merano|work=Panlasang Pinoy|date=July 30, 2014 |access-date=December 8, 2014}}</ref><ref name=kp/><ref name="ffr">{{cite web |title=Garlic Fried Rice (Sinangag) - How to Cook |url=http://www.filipinofoodrecipes.org/garlic-fried-rice-sinangag-how-cook |website=Filipino Food Recipes |access-date=January 20, 2019 |archive-date=November 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129185942/https://www.filipinofoodrecipes.org/garlic-fried-rice-sinangag-how-cook |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Luto ni Lola"/> thumb|Plain boiled rice with toasted garlic flakes, sometimes passed off as "garlic rice" Plain boiled rice (''sinaing'', or called by the general term for cooked rice, ''kanin'') is sometimes topped with toasted garlic flakes and erroneously called "garlic rice", especially in lower-cost eateries and restaurants. True garlic rice or ''sinangag'' is garlic ''fried'' rice.

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Category:Fried rice Category:Philippine rice dishes