Aligue fried rice

Aligue fried rice (Tagalog pronunciation: [alɪˈgɛ]), also known as crab fat fried rice or aligue rice, is a Filipino fried rice dish cooked by stir-frying pre-cooked rice with crab fat (taba ng talangka or aligue), toasted garlic, spring onions, black pepper, rock salt, and optionally butter. It is traditionally a vivid orange-yellow color due to the crab fat. It can be combined with seafood like shrimp and squid and eaten as is, or eaten paired with meat dishes.^[1]

Aligue fried rice

Aligue fried rice with its distinctive orange-yellow color
Alternative names	Aligue rice, crab fat fried rice, inaliging sinangag
Course	Main course
Place of origin	Philippines
Created by	Filipino cuisine
Main ingredients	Fried rice in oil with aligue, garlic, spring onions, black pepper and salt

It is a variant of sinangag (garlic fried rice) and is similar to bagoong fried rice, which uses bagoong (shrimp paste).

See also

• Sinangag
• Fried rice
• Kiampong
• Kuning
• Sinigapuna

References

1. "Crab Fat or Aligue Fried Rice". Kusina ni Teds. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
   - "Aligue Rice". Ang Sarap. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
   - Alvarez, Lhas. "Seafood Aligue Fried Rice Recipe". Yummy.ph. Retrieved April 10, 2020.