Dried Maldive Tuna Fish

A dried Maldivian tuna fish is called 'Maasi Karuvaadu' and resembles a mouldy chunk of wood that your grandfather left in the attic sometime in the ice age to be discovered by Egyptologists. Obviously it is very unappetising to look at and I've taken the special trouble NOT to post a pic lest you tender damsels barf on seeing that. As it is we have a lot of injuries on this forum. Yea, Sweet Sup's injury kinda brought all my dreames crashing. Hope she gets well soon.

Once you break the chunk of dried tuna with a hammer or a wooden mallet it resembles flakes of waste wood.





Next you powder it in the mixie and store in airtight containers for further use. That is if you cook.



Chop 10 shallots and 5 green chillies and keep aside a teaspoon of red chilli powder. Pour about 3-4 teaspoons of oil in a kadai and saute the chopped shallots and green chillies.



Once they are sauteed well add the red chilli powder and saute till the raw smell disappears, now add about 100 gms of the dried tuna fish powder along with some curry leaves and fry well for 5 mins. Garnish with cilantro and your dish is ready. Simple and easy. Its a neat side dish that goes well with rice and dal or rice and rasam.




Another recipe which you can store for about a month:
Clean 100gms. of the powdered tuna, wash and dry roast in a pan till the moisture evaporates. Grate 1/4 a coconut and dry fry in a pan till golden brown. When cool, powder and set aside. Then finely chop 50gms. of small onions and split 4 dried red chillies into bits. Now, run the onions and chillies in a mixie. You then mix the onion-chilli thingy with the dry fried coconut and the tuna fish powder. Add little salt, and store in clean , airtight bottles. Can be eaten with hot rice and some ghee / gingelly oil.

Alternately you can make a salad-like sambal of fried slivers of okra tossed with sliced shallots, tomatoes, chillies, lime juice and pounded Maldive fish.


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