fihunu mas

Fihunu mas is fish cooked with a spice coating in Maldivian cooking. Whole fish or pieces can be prepared on a barbecue, while home versions also use an oven. A spice paste may combine onion, garlic, ginger, curry leaves, grated coconut, cumin, red chilli and black pepper. It is spread over the fish and into slits cut in the flesh before cooking.^[1]

An oven preparation cooks the coated pieces until their surface becomes reddish with browned patches. Fihunu mas can accompany masbaiy, rice cooked with tuna, turmeric and spices. Salad, fried moringa leaves and rihaakuru, a concentrated fish paste, are other foods served in that meal.^[1][2]