Mas huni

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Mas huni
Breakfast dish

Mas huni with chapati (roti)
Place of origin:
Maldives
Region or state:
South Asia
Serving temperature:
With freshly-baked chapati[1]
Main ingredient(s):
Tuna and grated coconut
Variations:
With finely chopped green leaves
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Mas huni is a typical Maldivian breakfast, composed of tuna, onion, coconut, and chili.[2] All ingredients are finely chopped and mixed with the grated meat of the coconut. This dish is usually eaten with freshly-baked roshi flatbread and sweetened hot tea.[1]

The fish used in mas huni was as a rule Maldive fish but currently many Maldivians use canned tuna. Traditionally when fish was scarce, chopped leaves were added to the mas huni mixture. The green leaves of certain local plants and trees such as digutiyara (Senna occidentalis), kuḷḷafila or gōramfau (Launaea sarmentosa), mābulhā (Abutilon theophrasti), muranga (Moringa oleifera), massāgu (Amaranthus spinosus or Amaranthus viridis) sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and ḷos (Pisonia grandis), among others, replaced the fish in mas huni in a smaller or greater proportion.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Xavier Romero-Frias, The Maldive Islanders, A Study of the Popular Culture of an Ancient Ocean Kingdom, Barcelona 1999, ISBN 84-7254-801-5
  2. ↑ Tom Masters. Maldives. Lonely Planet, 2006. ISBN 1-74059-977-2, ISBN 978-1-74059-977-1. Pg 84

Bibliography

  • Xavier Romero-Frias, Eating on the Islands, Himāl Southasian, Vol. 26 no. 2, pages 69-91 ISSN 10129804

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