Recipe: Eating on a Dime Matoke

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Matoke. Matoke, locally also known as matooke, amatooke, ekitookye in southwestern Uganda, ekitooke in western Uganda, ebitooke in northwestern Tanzania and igitoki in Rwanda, is a starchy variety of banana. The fruit is harvested green, carefully peeled, and then cooked and often mashed or pounded into a meal. Matoke (or Matooke) refer to the plantain or plantain banana in Uganda, where plantains are a staple crop.

Matoke is a variety of banana indigenous to southwest Uganda.

It comes from the family of bananas known as the East African Highland bananas.

Matoke is used mainly for cooking when they are green and unripe.

You can have Matoke using 7 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Matoke

1. Prepare 5 of potatoes peeled.

2. Prepare 20 pcs of bananas peeled.

3. You need of Oil.

4. It’s of Onion.

5. You need 2 of big tomatoes.

6. Prepare 3 of carrots cubed.

7. You need of Ginger and garlic grated.

Cooked and mashed matoke is the nation al dish of Uganda.

Plaintains and green bananas (matoke) are a staple part of the diet in Uganda and much of East Africa.

Matoke is also the name given to a delicious, rib-sticking plantain stew that is a Ugandan national dish.

Versions of matoke, also known as matooke, are served in Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.

Matoke instructions

1. Fry onions add ginger and garlic paste then add tomatoes,carrots..

2. Add potatoes let it fry for 5 min add the bananas fry then add water(thufu)🤣 let it simmer till ready and serve.

See recipes for Matoke, Fried bananas(matoke) too.

Plantains are a hard, starchy tree fruit similar in density and texture to potatoes and winter squash.

Although plantains can be sliced thinly and fried, and then dusted with salt and spices, matoke is a dish similar to mashed potatoes.

Matoke, also known as plantains or green bananas, are eaten daily in Uganda.

They are often wrapped in their own leaves and steamed.