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Kulhi Boakiba

Name: Kulhi Boakiba
Total time: 75 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Maldives
Ingredients: 3 cans Canned tuna; 150g Rice flour; 80g Shredded Coconut; 1 Onion; 1 knob Ginger; 2 Green Chili Pepper; 8 leaves Curry Leaves; 2 tbsp Lime juice; 1 tsp Salt; 3 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 150ml Water

Snack

⏱ 75 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Tuna mixed with rice flour and coconut and baked — a spicy Maldivian tuna cake.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kulhi boakiba means 'spicy cake,' a Maldivian snack: tuna is mixed with grated coconut, rice flour, onion, chili, and curry leaves and baked in a square pan. Cut into squares like cake, it's served at tea time and celebrations. It's toasty outside and moist inside.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the snack table at a Maldivian wedding, square-cut brown baked cakes are lined up and served with cups of sweet tea.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Canned tuna 3 cans
Rice flour 150g
Shredded Coconut 80g
Onion 1
Ginger 1 knob
Green Chili Pepper 2
Curry Leaves 8 leaves
Lime juice 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil 3 tbsp
Water 150ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely chop the onion, ginger, chili, and curry leaves.
Mix the tuna, coconut, chopped ingredients, lime juice, and salt well in a bowl.
Add the rice flour, oil, and water to make a moist batter.
Spread in an oiled square pan and level the top.
Bake at 180°C for 40 minutes, cool, and cut into squares.

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