Olympian Natalie Coughlin: Fried rice & eggs breakfast of champions

Breakfast of champions: Fried rice, kale, topped with eggs with soft yolks.

So the secret is out. Olympic champion Natalie Coughlin draws on her Filipina grandmother for inspiration when she eats breakfast before a swimming meet -- fried rice, veggies with an egg on top.

Filipinos are familiar with the silog breakfast: tapsilog, longsilog, spamsilog or any variation with meat and/or vegitables mixed in with fried rice with an fried egg on top. Some say the silog recipe was the inspiration for the popular Hawaiian breakfast, the loco moco.

Coughlin, who has won more swimming medals than any other Olympian not named Michael Phelps, may have ended her days of competitive swimming but she is being kept busy taking care of her infant daughter, tending her home garden and cooking.

On the Today Show Tuesday, Coughlin demonstrated how to make her grandmother's lumpia and her favorite breakfast.

WATCH Natalie Coughlin cook lumpia and breakfast of champions

She also has come out with a new cookbook, "Cook To Thrive," a healthy twist to traditional recipes.

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