Tea-Shop Short Eat · Baked Fish Cake
Kulhi Boakibaa
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Unlike almost everything else on the hedhikaa tray, kulhi boakibaa is traditionally baked rather than fried — the tuna-and-rice mixture is pressed into a tray and baked until firm, then cut into neat diamond-shaped pieces.
Smoked tuna, grated coconut, cooked rice, onion and chili are mixed into a thick batter, pressed into a tin and baked until firm and golden, then sliced into diamonds. It's a hedhikaa-tray regular that shows up especially often at celebrations around Malé.
Why it's made this way: Baking instead of frying let tea shops turn out a whole tray of fish cake at once rather than working piece by piece at the fryer, making kulhi boakibaa a practical choice for feeding a crowd at gatherings.
Roughly what's in it
240kcal
9gprotein
22gcarbs
12gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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