Rice

Here we have the recipe for one of the most popular local rice dishes, Bambukeyolee Baiy. It’s a simple dish; rice is cooked with breadfruit and coconut milk.

Making biryani is usually a long and arduous process. Here's a recipe that delivers the familiar and comforting biryani taste with minimum fuss.

Ghee Rice is a flavourful rice dish that features ghee (clarified butter), fried onions, cashews and raisins. It’s superb when paired with a spicy meat curries.  

Baipen is a bland rice porridge best enjoyed with Maskurolhi, a spicy tuna and coconut sambal.

Enjoying masbaiy or tuna rice for lunch with some spicy rihaakuru is one of those very Dhivehi things that one can do.

This is a sweet, sour and spicy fried rice. You can skip the chicken or even use canned tuna instead.

Roosihaa Baiy is a traditional Maldivian rice dish that’s made with just a few ingredients: rice, coconut milk, water and salt.

Here’s a simple yet delicious rice dish you can enjoy during special meals. Serve it with chicken curry, poppadum and chutney and you have a winner.

An easy recipe, especially ideal for those times when you have leftover cooked rice.

This pumpkin rice is so good with 'rihaakuru dhiya'. Just add in the usual goodies like 'lonumirus' and 'valhomas'.