''Sinangag'' (), also called garlic fried rice or garlic rice, is a Filipino

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dish cooked by

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ing pre-cooked rice with

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. 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 garnished with toasted garlic,

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, black pepper and sometimes chopped

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s. The rice grains are ideally loose and not stuck together. It is rarely eaten on its own, but is usually paired with a "dry" meat dish such as

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'' (dried or cured meat),

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daing ''Daing'', ''tuyô'', ''buwad'', or ''bilad'' () are dried fish from the Philippines. Fish prepared as ''daing'' are usually split open (though they may be left whole), gutted, salted liberally, and then sun and air-dried. There are also "bonel ...

'' (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. In the Visayas regions of the Philippines, ''sinangag'' was traditionally seasoned with '' asín tibuok''. ''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

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, lessening

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. 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.

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