Thursday, February 9, 2012

Tapsilog

I've been doing a pretty terrible job of keeping up on my cooking blog, but now that I am focusing solely on achieving my goals, it should be a little easier. Let me start fresh with something simple to make that is a delicious (and not terrible for you) breakfast food. It's called tapsilog, which is a filipino side dish consisting of yesterday's rice fried with freshly diced garlic and topped with a fried egg.

All you do is dice up some garlic and heat it in hot oil in a nonstick pan (a wok would be preferable), throw in yesterday's rice from the fridge and pan fry it up until it's warm. You don't need to wait for it to brown or anything, since that'll actually burn it. Put your fried rice in a bowl, fry an egg to however you like it (I prefer over-medium and the dish tastes best if you can break the yolk and mix it in with the rice) and toss it on top. You can add salt and black pepper to taste throughout the cooking process and you have your dish! Enjoy!