Time to ditch the diet: TIME Magazine has picked our very own nasi lemak as one of the world’s healthiest brekafasts.
Wow, really? And here we were trying to eat gluten-free bagels with cold-pressed mangosteen juice out of a silver chalice every morning.
Here’s how the TIME article published online today, entitled 10 Healthy International Breakfasts, describes our go-to sarapan pagi:
Soaked and cooked in coconut milk, rice is garnished with anchovies, cucumbers, roasted peanuts, hard boiled egg and spicy sambal sauce.
Yeah, that… that sounds about right, actually. Huh. Thought they might have made a mistake there, but no, not really.
Still, the article does note nasi lemak’s higher than average content of fat (oh good Lord, the fat), but says nasi lemak’s high amount of manganese, protein, and carbs (along with the sambal’s arguable benefits to metabolism) tip the meal towards the dietary good side.
Joining Malaysia in the ranks of the world’s best things to eat in the morning if you don’t want to immediately keel over and die are Japan (okayu rice porridge), Egypt (fūl medames, a meal based on fava beans, hard boiled eggs, and spices), and *gasp* Israel, with its shakshouka – traditional Hebrew poached eggs served with a vegetable salad.
But you don’t really want to know all that. You just want an excuse to keep pigging out on nasi lemak every morning. And now you have one.
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