This is an AI-generated image.

Mas Riha

Name: Mas Riha
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Maldives
Ingredients: 400g Skipjack Tuna; 400ml Coconut milk; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 knob Ginger; 8 leaves Curry Leaves; 2 Green Chili Pepper; 1 tbsp Curry Powder; 1/2 tsp Turmeric; 1 Cinnamon stick; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1 tsp Salt; 1 tbsp Lime juice

Main Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Skipjack tuna simmered in coconut milk and spices — the classic Maldivian fish curry.

📱 Open in Storage App

🚧 The Storage app is currently in development. Please check back soon.

📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mas riha is the fish curry most often made in Maldivian homes: fresh skipjack is simmered with curry leaves, chili, turmeric, and spices and finished mellow with coconut milk. Influenced by Sri Lanka and southern India, it developed into a uniquely Maldivian, fish-centered flavor. It's eaten with rice or roshi.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At lunch in a Maldivian island home, yellow coconut curry and white rice are laid out as the family mixes rice and curry with their right hands.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Skipjack Tuna 400g
Coconut milk 400ml
Onion 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Ginger 1 knob
Curry Leaves 8 leaves
Green Chili Pepper 2
Curry Powder 1 tbsp
Turmeric 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon stick 1
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Lime juice 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the skipjack into bite-size pieces and rub with salt and turmeric.
Heat oil in a pot and fry the sliced onion, garlic, ginger, curry leaves, and chili.
Add the curry powder and cinnamon until fragrant, then pour in the coconut milk.
When it boils, add the fish and simmer on low for 15 minutes.
Season with lime juice and salt and serve with rice.

← More Maldives recipes 🗺 Explore another country