Maldives · breakfast · English edition
Mas huni
Tuna worked with coconut, onion and lime, with hot roshi flatbread. The Maldivian breakfast.
4 servings · 35 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 4 servings.
- 400 g Smoked or tinned tuna
- 200 g Grated coconut, fresh
- 2 piece Red onion
- 3 piece Chillies
- 3 piece Limes
- 10 piece Curry leaves
- 300 g Flour for roshi
- 160 ml Water
- 30 ml Vegetable oil
- to taste Salt
Method
- Knead a dough from the flour, water, a spoon of oil and salt and rest it twenty minutes.
- Chop the onion, chillies and curry leaves as fine as you can.
- Work the onion, chilli and salt with your hands until the onion releases its juice and softens.
- Add the grated coconut and the flaked tuna and keep working it with your fingers until even.
- Squeeze in the lime juice and mix again. Taste and adjust for salt and acidity.
- Roll the dough into thin flatbreads and cook them on a dry pan a minute a side.
- Serve the mas huni with the hot roshi and black tea.
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