Kavaabu Recipe - Maldives Cook

Ingredients

• 3 cups smoked tuna – diced/sliced (substitute: 3 cans Light meat tuna chunks)
• 1 cup coconut – scraped/grated
• 1 Scotch Bonnet (githeyo mirus) – finely chopped
• ⅓ cup curry leaves – finely chopped
• 1½ cups yellow split-lentils (mugu) – boiled and mashed
• 1 cup onion – finely sliced
• 5 cloves garlic – pressed/grated/very finely chopped
• 1 tbsp ginger – grated
• ½ cup lemon juice
• ½ tsp turmeric powder
• ½ cups water
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• Salt to taste
• Vegetable oil – for frying