Recipe: Perfect 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 cook Matoke using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Matoke

  1. You need 6 of raw bananas.

  2. It’s 1/2 of arrow root.

  3. You need of Salt.

  4. It’s 1 of onion.

  5. It’s 1 of big ripe tomatoe.

  6. It’s 1 of /2tsp tumeric/curry powder.

  7. You need 1/2 tsp of cumin powder.

  8. It’s 1/2 tsp of black pepper.

  9. You need of Oil.

  10. You need of Capsicum.

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. Peel and wash bananas and arrow root. Chop onion, capsicum and tomatoes..

  2. In a cooking pan saute onions on medium heat, add bananas and arrow root then add tomatoes, capsicum, salt and spices.

  3. Cover for 2min then stir/mix gently, add enough water and cover until well cooked..

  4. Serve..

If you use green bananas for this dish, make sure they are very green.

Matoke definition at Dictionary.com, a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms and translation.

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

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

They are often wrapped in their own leaves and steamed.