Mas huni

Mas huni is a typical Maldivian breakfast, consisting of tuna, onion, coconut, lime juice, salt to taste and chili. All ingredients are finely chopped and mixed with the grated meat of the coconut. This dish is usually eaten with freshly baked roshi and sweetened hot tea.

Preparation

The fish traditionally used in mas huni was the cured tuna valhoamas, but many Maldivians currently use canned tuna.
Traditionally, when fish was scarce, chopped leaves were added to the mas huni mixture. The green leaves of certain local plants and trees such as diguthiyara '''', kuḷhafilaa or gōramfau, mābulhā, muranga, massāgu sweet potato and ḷos, among others, replaced the fish in mas huni in a smaller or greater proportion.
Mas huni may be made with kopee leaves.
Another variant of mas huni is made with muranga pods instead of leaves. First the pods are boiled; then the flesh with the seeds is scooped out. This is mixed with the rest of the ingredients. This same type of thicker mas huni can be also made with tora, boiled butternut squash or pumpkin.