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Maldivian Food

Eggplant bokibaa

A sweet baked bokibaa made with grated eggplant, gabulhi coconut, sugar and wheat flour.

A baked eggplant snack.
A baked eggplant snack. Photo: rovingI / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

This sweet bokibaa brings together grated eggplant and soft gabulhi coconut, baked in a tray. It makes a lovely teatime treat.

Ingredients

  • 2 large eggplants

  • 3 large gabulhi (half-ripe coconuts)

  • 1/2 or 1/3 cup sugar

  • 2 cups wheat flour

  • 2 tablespoons cold water

Method

  1. Grate the gabulhi and mash it.

  2. Wash the eggplants well and grate them finely.

  3. Mix the sugar, gabulhi and eggplant together.

  4. Add the wheat flour and the cold water.

  5. Mix everything well.

  6. Grease a pan or a tray with oil and pour the mixture in.

  7. Bake it in a cake oven, or cook it with heat from above.