Cook Maldives
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With stunning photography and over 100 step-by-step photos, Cook Maldives brings to you an assortment of popular and traditional dishes of the tropical island nation of the Maldives. This book will give you a glimpse into the food and everyday life of the people of the Maldives, as you taste and and re-create family recipes that have been passed down across generations. Learn about the history of Maldivian food and the ingredients that give it its unique flavour. Learn to cook main meals, bread, desserts, and popular "hedhikaa" snacks that are accompanied with our “afternoon tea.”
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About this book
Cook Maldives by Shaai Sattar is a cookbook focused on the food traditions of the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean made up of roughly 1,200 coral islands grouped into 26 atolls. The book collects popular and traditional Maldivian dishes, presenting them with step-by-step photography across more than 100 instructional images. Recipes span main meals, breads, desserts, and a category of snacks called hedhikaa, small prepared foods traditionally served alongside an afternoon tea.
Maldivian cooking draws on ingredients shaped by the country's geography. Fish, coconut, and rice form a central part of the diet, and the book traces some of the history behind these staples and the flavors they produce. Sattar frames the recipes as family dishes handed down over generations, offering context about daily life in the Maldives alongside the cooking instructions.
The inclusion of hedhikaa is a useful detail for readers unfamiliar with the concept. These snacks occupy a specific place in Maldivian daily routine, tied to a late-afternoon break that structures social and family time. The book pairs its recipes with food photography intended to show both finished dishes and preparation stages.
