Maldives Seafood

Echinoderms

Sea cucumber and Sea urchin belongs to the group Echinoderms.
Sea cucumber.

It is a sea food belonging to the group Echinoderms.This is mostly used by Asians to eat .
It is found on the sea floor world wide.In Maldives it live at the bottom of shallow lagoons and reefs where there are corals and sea [...]

Hot and Spicy Cuttlefish

Cuttlefish dishes are also made in different ways like other seafood dishes. Hot n spicy cuttlefish is a dish with extra hot for those who wish to make their lunch or dinner really enjoyable.

Ingredients:

500g cuttlefish (cut into 1 inch cubes)
2 large onions (sliced) [...]

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 % [...]

Yellowfin tuna recipes can be prepared in many ways. It depends on your personality; which ever method I can probably say it will be tasty and healthy as well.
One of my favorite method is grilling. Grilling is something very simple and easy. It can be grilled in many ways. Ok, Lets grill some tuna fillets.
Grilled [...]

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 [...]

Devilled fish is a very tasty seafood dish which is made very easily and takes less time.
It can be served with fried rice, plain rice,bread or with chapathi.
But it taste best with fried rice.
If you wish to have with plain rice, serve a salad too, that will taste great.
Ingredients:
200g fish (cut into small cubes)
2 onions [...]

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 [...]