I had issue with the solutions mentioned above as specifying the string key would give me javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException. The code shown below worked for me. In this I used status to count the index of for each loop and displayed the value of index I am interested on
<c:forEach items="${requestScope.key}" var="map" varStatus="status" >
<c:if test="${status.index eq 1}">
<option><c:out value=${map.value}/></option>
</c:if>
</c:forEach>