Chilli fish
Egg-coated fresh fish is fried, then tossed with capsicum, dried chilli, chilli sauce and tomato sauce.
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Chicken bajia
Maldivian bajia filled with spiced chicken, onion, chilli and ginger, baked or deep-fried.
Faroshi bokibaa
A sweet baked bokibaa made from crushed faroshi, sugar, eggs, wheat flour and coconut milk.
Skipjack tuna rolls
Thin crepes rolled around a spicy skipjack tuna filling, coated in egg and faroshi crumbs.
Fish kebab
Fried fish kebabs of tinned or fresh fish with rice or mung bean flour, coconut, chillies and cabbage.
Rihaakuru bokibaa
A savoury baked bokibaa of rice, grated coconut, chillies, onion and lime, flavoured with rihaakuru.
Eggplant bokibaa
A sweet baked bokibaa made with grated eggplant, gabulhi coconut, sugar and wheat flour.
Chicken soup
A chicken soup with ginger, leeks, cardamom and soy sauce, poured over cooked noodles.
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.
