Recipe: Yummy 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 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Matoke

  1. It’s 4 of Matoke.

  2. Prepare 1 of big Tomato.

  3. You need 1 of big onion.

  4. You need of Coriander.

  5. You need of Vegetable oil.

  6. You need cube of Royco.

  7. Prepare of Salt.

  8. You need of Garlic.

  9. You need of Ginger.

  10. You need of Water.

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 step by step

  1. Peel the matoke, chopped then wash. Choppe your ingredients..

  2. In a sufuria add oil and heat, add onion and stir for 40 seconds then add garlic and ginger. Stir until golden brown. Add tomatoes and salt, stir for few seconds then cover. Let tomatoes form a paste.

  3. Add matoke to your mixture and stir, add royco cube, mix then add water and cover to boil for 8 to 10 minutes.

  4. Add chopped coriander and simmer for 30 seconds..

  5. Its ready to serve with or without vegetables and stew. Enjoy 🌷.

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.