Maldives Seafood

Facts about Yellowfin Tuna

English: Yellowfin Tuna.
Latin: Thunnus albacores.
Dhivehi (Maldives language): Reedhoo uraha Kanneli.
Normal size: 3 ft to 5 ft
Usual weight: Between 5-60 kg.
Biggest Fish Caught: 175 kgs, Mexico 1977 by Curt Wiesenhutter.
Catching Areas: It is found every where in open waters of Maldives.

Around the world:
36% Western Pacific
26% Eastern Pacific
24 % [...]

Here’s two ways you can prepare tuna mushroom pizza.(seafood pizza)
Making the pizza dough
1 cup warm water(105-115F)
3 cups all-purpose flour(but bread flour will give u a crisp one)
3 tbsp olive oil or 2 tbsp butter
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp yeast
Add salt,sugar and yeast into warm water and keep it for about 10 minutes.
Mix flour and [...]

Ingredients:
4 red mullet
1 onion
4 clove garlic
2 inch ginger
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp turmeric
2 tsp chili powder
salt to taste
oil for shallow frying
Scale the fish and make gashes on both sides of the fish.
Grind all the other ingredients to a smooth paste leaving the fish and oil aside.
Rub the fish with the paste and leave about 1 hour.
Heat [...]

It’s quite easy to grill a fish and it is tasty as well.
Ingredients:
Fish of your choice.Reef fish are best and my favourite is red snappers.
For the chili paste;
50g dried chillies
20g onion
4 clove garlic
1 tsp black pepper corns
2 curry leaves
2 tsp lime juice
Salt to taste
Remove the scales and stomach, leaving the fish whole with its head.
Make [...]

200g fish ( cut into small cubes)
2 onions (cut into cubes)
1/2 green pepper (cut into cubes)
2 green chilli (cut into halves)
1 tsp chilli powder
1/2 cup sauce (chilli and tomato mix)
1/2 cup water
1 tsp corn flour
1 tsp pepper powder
1 egg
1 tsp soya sauce
1tsp vinegar
oil for frying
salt to taste
Mix fish with corn flour, egg, vinegar, salt, pepper [...]

Making the pizza dough
1 cup warm water(105-115F)
3 cups all-purpose flour(but bread flour will give u a crisp one)
3 tbsp olive oil or 2 tbsp butter
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp yeast
Add salt,sugar and yeast into warm water and keep it for about 10 minutes.
Mix flour and olive oil in a bowl.
Pour in the water mixture [...]

Traditional boats in Maldives
Bokkura - A very small row boat maximum 4 persons to board, mainly used to fish near the shores and lagoons.
And is also used by fishermen and others for transporting fish, their belongings and goods between anchored boats and shores if they don’t have a jetty on the Island.
Before the introduction of [...]

If you have bought a whole fish, you need to fillet it before cooking. If you are buying fish from the fish market, fishmonger can do this for you. If not lets try out.

First, you need a sharp knife, so that it becomes easier for the filleting.

Start by gutting the fish, slit open the [...]

Steaming is usually done using a special kind of pot, which is divided into two parts. In the lower part fill in water. Upper part (which has small holes in it) is to put the food you wish to steam. Put the upper part on top of the lower part and put on the lid. [...]

250g pasta
1 cup cheese (grated)
150g fish of your choice (cut into small cubes)
2 onions (cut into cubes)
4-5 capsicums (cut into cubes)
1 tomato (cut into cubes)
3 tbsp soya sauce
1/2 cup tomato sauce
1 tsp black pepper powder
1 tsp vinegar
Salt to taste
1/2 cup oil

Boil water in a pot with salt and 2 tbsp of oil, to avoid the [...]