Recipes

Sinangag + 3 Filipino Breakfast You Must Try

Sinangag or “fried rice” is a staple rice dish in every Filipino’s breakfast plate. It is simply prepared by fluffing leftover rice and stir frying it with oil and garlic, typically garnished with chopped scallions or toasted garlic.

This rice dish is usually paired with Filipino protein breakfast items such as fried egg, tuyo, tocino, tapa, bangus and longganisa. “Tapsilog” is the term used when sinangag is paired with “tapa” a dried cured meat (usually beef). This term spawned many other breakfast dishes all having sinangag and fried egg. Other names include “longsilog” (longganisa-sinangag-egg), “bangsilog” (bangus-sinangag-egg), “dangsilog” (danggit-sinangag-egg) and the list goes on.

Filipinos are huge rice eaters. A meal is not complete without rice. It is our major source of carbohydrate just as westerners get theirs from potatoes and bread. I grew up smelling the fragrant fried rice cooked by my mom in the morning. Although the common sinangag utilizes garlic, ours is kinda different because we add onion when stir frying it. Instead of doing a sunny side up egg, we pour beaten eggs directly to the mixture. We also add in shredded adobo or any leftover meat or fish we have the previous night. We finish everything by seasoning it with rock salt and black pepper and were good to go.

I will be sharing my simple sinangag recipe which is very quick and easy to make. This post also include three Filipino breakfast dishes – Dangsilog, made from “danggit” (dried rabbitfish), Bolsilog, from “bolinao” (dried anchovies) and Bangsilog which is made from “bangus” (milkfish).

Sinangag

You will need:

3 cups white rice, fluffed
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons cooking oil
salt and pepper to taste
chopped scallions for garnish

  1. In a pan, heat oil over medium heat. Saute the onions and garlic until lightly brown and fragrant.
  2. Add in the rice and stir fry until soft and well coated with oil. Season with salt and pepper.
  3. Top with chopped scallions and serve hot.

Dangsilog

You will need:

5 pieces dried rabbitfish
1 large red tomato, chopped
oil for frying
1 egg, cooked sunny side up

  1. In a pan, heat oil over high heat. Add in rabbit fish and reduce the heat to medium.
  2. Fry rabbit fish until golden brown and crispy.
  3. Assemble in a plate with sinangag, fried egg and chopped tomatoes. Serve with native vinegar on the side.

Bangsilog

You will need:

1 medium milkfish, sliced lengthwise
1 large green tomato, chopped
salt & pepper to taste
oil for frying
1 egg, cooked sunny side up

  1. Clean milkfish thoroughly by washing it in running water.
  2. Season fish with salt and black pepper.
  3. Heat oil over high heat and fry the milkfish until golden brown.
  4. Assemble in a plate with sinangag, fried egg and chopped tomatoes. Serve with soy sauce and calamansi on the side.

Bolsilog

You will need:

½ cup bolinao
oil for frying
1 egg, cooked sunny side up

  1. Heat oil in a pan and fry anchovies until light brown and crispy for about 1 – 2 minutes. Do not overcook for it will taste bitter.
  2. Remove anchovies from pan and assemble in a plate with sinangag and egg.