Filipino Garlic Fried Rice (Sinangag)

🧂 Ingredients

• 1.55 lb cooked rice

  5 cups; see below for uncooked rice measurements
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 0.9 oz garlic

  4 cloves
• 1/2 tsp salt

  or to taste
• 1-2 green onion

  or scallions, optional, for garnish

Instructions

• 1 Use leftover/day-old cooked rice for this recipe, which can save so much time.
  If you don't have that, then you first need to cook the rice – check the Notes
  below for the details.
• 2 Chop the green onion and mince or grate the garlic cloves.
• 3 Add the vegetable oil to a large pan and heat over medium heat. Then, pan-fry
  the garlic for a couple of minutes until golden. You'll want to stay close and
  stir every so often so that you don't burn the garlic.
• 4 Scoop out the garlic. Then add the cooked rice to the pan. Stir well, so the
  grains get coated with the garlic-infused oil. Cook long enough to warm the cold
  rice (if using leftover) or just for a few minutes (if using freshly made).
  Remember that this is non-sticky rice, so you don't want it to become mushy from
  overcooking it. 
• 5 Top with the pan-fried garlic and chopped onion, and serve. If you want to add a
  little bit of crunch to the top, you can add crunched nuts on top.

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