Sweet Custard With Fruit Cocktail

A  quick post  today. I was asked by my friend Rafeedha from  Big Sweet Tooth to write a guest post for her Eid recipe collection.

Banbukeyo Bondibai ( Bread fruit pudding)

With Eid just round the corner, the menu turns towards what to cook on Eid day. Of course the main question will be ,"what dessert shall we make?". In my home this year its going to be a lot quieter one. With my second sister and her family having shifted abroad, its just me and my eldest sister and our husbands and kids along with our parents.

Tandoori Chicken Pizza

I remember the first time I saw A cook's tour and my initial reaction was "what kind of a cooking show is this??" Then I saw No Reservations and I was hooked to it. Its raw, and honest no sugar coating approach. One of my favorite episode was when Anthony Bourdain visited Saudhi Arabia. His respect to the cultures and the belief. How many of you foodies watched it. I also loved watching The Taste.
Anyway, back to my recipe for the day, Tandoori Chicken Pizza .  I love tandoori chicken and so do the boys. I had some left over tandoori chicken and wanted to make my own tandoori chicken pizza. I didn't want to use tomato paste or the regular tomato sauce. So decided I would make the masala sauce that's used to make chicken tikka  masala recipe.

Huni Hakuru ( Sweet Coconut Pastries)

Huni Hakuru is this sweet pastry which is eaten as a tea time snack. The filling is made of gabulhi huni ( the meat found inside a slightly young coconut, but not as young as the ones you drink) cooked with sugar , pandan and cardamon. Once its well cooked and sticky , its cooled and placed in a dough and shaped like a curry puff. Then fried in oil. Its tasty especially when served warm.

Baraboa Mas-huni ( Pumpkin and Tuna Sambol)

When growing up I hated pumpkin. Although now a days I have started to enjoy it. My hubby teases me a lot because of it ,as I once told him i hate pumpkin and butternuts  and now he  goes, "so you don't like pumpkin huh?"  Mas huni is a fish sambal , a mixture of onions, fresh coconut, chillies and smoked tuna , although you can use canned tuna.

Mango Lassi

My 11 year old is   Fasting  this month. Although its not a must for kids to fast , they still  do as a practice, The smaller ones like  my 6 year old  do half fasts like take suhoor ( early morning meal ) and fast till he starts to feel hungry in the afternoon then have a bite and then fast again.  Its a joke in the house that he does two fasts per day. Although he has managed to hold 2 whole fasts.

Tuna and Tomato Galette

I love make galettes , its a free form tart.  No blind baking required. I saw a few tomato galettes on Pinterest and wondered if I can use some tuna along with it and extra cheese. It turned out quiet delicious and I think any Maldivian will like it as its got that chili kick ( although I dont go mad with the chilli like some people), the tuna flavor and the cheese and  sweet tomatoes.

Kashikeyo Baipen (Screwpine fruit Porridge)

I know I posted this a long time ago but I took some of my old posts out due to some comments I got but then again , I realized  different people make their recipes differently, so why bother what people say. Anyway, the first time I heard of this recipe was from my husband. We had just been married and living in Kulhudhufushi as my husband was working there for 6 months.  I love screwpine fruit and its heady perfume.

Fish Curry 3

I just have to share this fish curry. It is so yumm! I was looking for good fish curry recipe and came across one in Mohamed Amin's Karunayaa nulaa kehkun cookbook. I adapted it using ground spices and a few tweaks and voila! It's a delicious fish curry recipe, perfect to eat with rice or flat bread.

Chicken Curry puff

One of my favorite Malaysia snacks is Curry puffs. I made Sardine Curry puff  before, and then recently I  tried the chicken one.  It was a big hit in my home and also with my  in laws.  The best curry powder I would recommend would be Baba's meat curry powder, although you can still use the local roasted curry powder, which is also great.

Banbukeyo Hithi ( Breadfruit Curry)

For ages I kept meaning to try one of the Hithi recipes. Hithi means bitter but this is not a bitter curry. Its called hithi because its uses a spice known locally as hithi damui. My mum kept saying its difficult getting hithi damui you can only get it from the local ayuvedhi stalls until my sister discovered after seeing the spice that it was in fact ajwain/ carom seeds.