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Bajiya

Name: Bajiya
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Maldives
Ingredients: 12 Spring roll wrappers; 2 cans Canned tuna; 1 Onion; 1 Potato; 30g Shredded Coconut; 1 Green Chili Pepper; 4 Curry Leaves; 1 tsp Curry Powder; 1 tbsp Lime juice; A pinch Salt; To taste Oil for frying; 1 tbsp All-purpose flour

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Spicy tuna and onion filling wrapped in triangles and fried — Maldivian fried dumplings.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bajiya are Maldivian triangular fried snacks similar to South Asian samosas, wrapped around a filling of tuna, onion, coconut, curry leaves, and chili and fried crisp. A hedhikaa (snack) staple, they're essential for breaking the Ramadan fast.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At dusk during Ramadan, triangular fried snacks are piled on a platter at a Malé family table, and the family reaches for them as the call announcing the end of the fast rings out.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Spring roll wrappers 12
Canned tuna 2 cans
Onion 1
Potato 1
Shredded Coconut 30g
Green Chili Pepper 1
Curry Leaves 4
Curry Powder 1 tsp
Lime juice 1 tbsp
Salt A pinch
Oil for frying To taste
All-purpose flour 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the potato and cut into small dice.
Fry the onion, chili, and curry leaves, add the tuna, potato, coconut, curry powder, salt, and lime juice, and let cool.
Cut the spring roll wrappers into long strips, fold into triangles around the filling, and seal with flour mixed with water.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Serve hot with tea.

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