Kandoo bokibaa
A baked savoury bokibaa of boiled kandoo (mangrove fruit), smoked tuna, rice, onion and githeyo chilli.
Bokibaa is a Maldivian baked cake, and this savoury version is made with kandoo, the fruit of the mangrove, ground together with smoked tuna, onion and chilli.
Ingredients
2 cups boiled kandoo, mashed
2 onions, finely chopped
3 curry leaves
2 githeyo chillies, finely chopped
1 teaspoon ginger, crushed
2 limes
3/4 cup rice
1 1/2 cups valhoamas (smoked tuna), finely chopped
A little salt
Method
Grind the onion, chilli and curry leaves together.
Then grind in the lime, grated coconut, fish and all the remaining ingredients.
Add 1/2 cup water and grind well.
When it is ground enough for the flavour to come through, oil a tray.
Put the ground mixture into the tray and bake in the oven.
