Calling all garlic lovers — your next favorite side dish has arrived and is in the form of Filipino Fried Garlic Rice. A batch of steamed rice gets cooked in the frying pan with loads of garlic until it’s slightly crispy and a hundred percent garlicky in the best possible way.

Filipino Fried Garlic Rice (also known as sinangag)— while tasty with your next upcoming dinner — is commonly eaten at breakfast, as a way to reuse and eat leftover rice from the previous night’s meal. It’s a great way to alter the texture and add flavor without a crazy amount of ingredients. 

Traditionally, a wok is used to cook the garlic and rice, but you can whip up a tasty version in an average skillet. Once the oil has heated up, add in the garlic. You don’t want the heat to be too high, or else it’ll burn the garlic. 

Cook the garlic for thirty seconds to a minute, or until you start smelling the fragrance of the garlic and you start to see the garlic get a golden hue. 

Add in your rice and stir to incorporate the garlic into the rice. Spread the rice out into the pan and let the rice sit unmoved for a few minutes, this will give the rice a great crispy texture on one side. 

Served alongside chicken or pork in the evening, you have yourself a complete meal, but in all honesty, this rice is so good it only needs a pinch of salt and a pat of butter and you can eat this alone as is (it’s that good). 

Seriously, this Filipino Fried Garlic Rice is comfortable in a bowl.

Its aromatic floral notes and crispy texture of the garlic give this rice some serious comfort food power, that it might surpass a bowl of mashed potatoes.