Chicken soup
A chicken soup with ginger, leeks, cardamom and soy sauce, poured over cooked noodles.
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Fresh fish curry
Cubed fresh fish is cooked with havadhu, pandan, curry leaves and finished with coconut milk.
Ice cream biscuit pudding
A chilled pudding of Marie biscuits soaked in sweetened milk and topped with 400 g chocolate ice cream.
Fruit and nut muffins
Muffins of mixed fruit, nuts and self-raising flour, flavoured with cardamom and baked at 190°C.
Cassava cake
A buttery cassava cake made with eggs, sugar and milk powder, baked in a tray.
Kandoo bokibaa
A baked savoury bokibaa of boiled kandoo (mangrove fruit), smoked tuna, rice, onion and githeyo chilli.
White chocolate and pear cake
A white chocolate cake layered with sliced pear and finished with a pear-juice icing.
Fresh fish rice
Brown rice cooked with boneless reef fish, pandan leaf, cinnamon and cardamom.
Passion fruit leaf and fish rice
Brown rice cooked without salt or oil, stirred with passion fruit leaves and reef fish.
Banana fried rice
Fried rice of grated romalhos banana with cooked brown rice, onion and green chilli.
Sweet corn and chicken rice
Fried brown rice with sweet corn, boneless chicken, onion, garlic and green chilli.
Cumin onion rice
Basmati rice cooked with pandan leaves and finished with coconut milk, cumin and onion.
Beef pasta
Pasta with minced beef, tomato ketchup, green pepper, vinegar and olive oil.
Corned beef tomato pasta
Cooked pasta tossed with a can of corned beef, chopped tomato, onion and green chilli.
Havadhulee rice with baby corn
Basmati mixed rice with dried mushrooms, baby corn, green beans, leek and soy sauce.
Cabbage and green pea rice
Brown rice cooked without salt or oil, then fried with cabbage, green peas and canned tuna.
Chicken gizzard noodles
Cooked noodles fried with boiled chicken gizzard, onion, egg and scotch bonnet.
