Street Food · Tuna Breakfast
Mas Huni
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This everyday Maldivian breakfast never touches a stove — the tuna is already smoked and dried, so making mas huni is just chopping and mixing by hand.
Mas huni combines shredded dried tuna with grated coconut, chopped onion, lime juice, and chili, mashed together into a coarse, savory mix. The standard Maldivian breakfast, scooped up with warm roshi flatbread and sweet black tea.
Why it's made this way: Built from dried, smoked tuna and coconut — two staples of a fishing and coconut-farming economy — mas huni needs no cooking, making it a practical, fast breakfast.
Roughly what's in it
380kcal
22gprotein
35gcarbs
18gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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