Brown Rice For Breakfast – Our Savory Version (Gluten-Free, Healthy, Yummy, Hearty and Cheap) Like a Breakfast Healthy Fried Rice

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A couple of weeks ago, we shared our brown rice breakfast – the sweet version! It is so good and so healthy for you! But I also mentioned that I will be sharing a savory version, which is actually liked much more than the sweet by my family!

Now I don’t feel like I can emphasize this enough.  We whole-hardheartedly think that every household should have a large stock-pile of rice! Preferably brown rice!

Seriously, take steps now to stock up on this food! Brown rice is super nutritious, gluten-free, hearty (meaning tummy filling), easy and very versatile.

In fact, I am trying to eat gluten-free to see if gluten contributes to some issues I am having.  Brown rice has been so super, duper important! For lunch today, I had a bowl of brown rice with real butter and mozzarella cheese topped with an egg fried in coconut oil (and sprinkled with turmeric, cayenne pepper, real  salt and pepper).  It was absolutely amazing, healthy, hearty (I couldn’t finish it!) and gluten-free! Rice cereals, rice for breakfast, for lunch, for snack, for dinner – it’s all there in one handy dandy place. When we buy it in bulk, we are able to buy 50 lb. bags of long grain brown rice for around $28! This lasts our family of 7, who eats it often, for a few months! A couple of bags of this every 6-9 months would be so great for every household to have! You can read more on our food storage process for the big bulk bags HERE.

But even better, it is easy to stock-up on, cheap, long shelf life and anyone can eat (I haven’t met a person that is allergic to rice!).  So it can feed a lot of people in emergencies too and keep allergies in check at the same time!

If you are not convinced how necessary we feel that it is to stock-up on rice, here’s a few reasons we shared on the Brown Rice for Breakfast Sweet Version post (some repeating what I said above, but I can’t state it enough :))!

1. It’s super easy to make, especially with the rice cooker that I think is just as important or more than a crockpot! I love this one that is a 20-cup Aroma Cooker (you can make a little bit or all 20-cups!) by that I have referenced many times as it steams and is a crockpot while having the option to cook rice. 
2. It’s super cheap.  Whether you choose to get white, brown or even organic! It’s all cheap.  Especially when you compare it to cereals! You can pick up a 1-2 lb. bag of brown rice for around $2.  This small bag will last our family of seven for 2-3 meals (whether breakfast, lunch or dinner). We’re talking very cheap, even for large families like ours!
3. It’s super healthy. Especially if you opt for brown rice. It contains fiber and the way that we prepare adds extra healthy factors to it!
4. It’s naturally gluten-free!

So let me share with you our “savory” version of a brown rice breakfast (again, this is the preferred rice by 6 out of 7 of our family members – I am the odd one liking the sweet version best)!

Here’s the ingredients:

• Chopped veggies.  The picture above shows celery and red onions, honestly because that is what I had on hand.  But shredded carrots, bell peppers, other onions are all good and probably even more options than that.  This is just what we normally use!
• Breakfast meat of some kind.  I am picky about meat, but I do like the Jimmy Dean Naturals that I buy at Costco (and Sam’s Club) for $7 which will make 7 breakfasts with this meat (read more here about this option).
• Cooked brown rice (see our recommendations above, not only should you stock-up on brown rice, a rice cooker is a MUST and the one we show above is what we have – affordable, and has many functions!).   TIP:  The dinners that we have brown rice, I cook twice as much so when I get up the next morning to make breakfast, the rice is already cooked!
• Finally, for about every 1-1.5 cups of cooked rice, I use one egg.  I am typically making a very large batch of this – so figure your ingredients according to your family size.

For the spices: This is our typical list – but have liberty to use any and all that you want and mix it up however you want!

• Butter or coconut oil (or other oils that you may fry in, but coconut oil is a healthy option). We personally love coconut oil.   Any of these are good, but the coconut options add extra layers of health by easily and tastily including them!  We use Tropical Traditions and buy coconut oil when they have their 50% off (or buy one get one free) sales.  It is good quality too!
• Basil
• Oregano
• Garlic
• Pepper
• Turmeric (I sneak this into everything – it is a super healthy spice – but it gives EVERYTHING a deep yellow color as you can see from the pictures :))
• and then everyone adds soy sauce after cooking to their liking – we don’t actually use soy sauce though, we use an alternative that tastes exactly like it called Bragg’s Liquid Aminos.

Then all you do is this:

• Throw your butter or coconut oil in a pan and then thrown in your veggies, garlic, spices and saute’ these until they are “soft”.

• Then add your breakfast meat and saute a little more (if raw, cook thoroughly – or if you do what we do and have a cooked supply in your freezer, defrost in the microwave and add to the pan!).

• Then add your cooked rice and “fry” until it is all coated and reaches the desired consistency you want.  Our family likes it “crispy” which means more frying time.  If you want it softer, then just fry for a shorter time.

• Whip up your eggs while your rice is frying.

• After your rice reaches it’s desired consistency, then make a well into the middle of pan.

• Then what I do is pour about 1-2 eggs worth into the well at a time!

• Then cook, stir and add in this small amount of egg into the dish.
• Repeat the egg process until all of your eggs are cooked into the dish!

• Then serve it up and enjoy!

So will you join us and serve your family a healthy, hearty, affordable, and complete breakfast meal in one?

Here’s a printable recipe for you!

See our Sweet Brown Rice Breakfast HERE.

See all of our affordable, healthy and practical breakfasts page HERE for lots of ideas!

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