Recipe: To Try At Home 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 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Matoke

  1. It’s 250 gms of beef.

  2. You need 10 pcs of green bananas.

  3. You need 2 pcs of Courgettes.

  4. You need 3 pcs of tomatoes.

  5. It’s of Spring onion.

  6. You need of Salt.

  7. You need of Garlic and ginger paste.

  8. You need of Cooking oil.

  9. You need of Corriander.

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. Boil your beef till soft, add garlic and ginger paste when boiling.

  2. Peel your green bananas and place it on salty sater.

  3. Boil for 8minutes.

  4. Fry your beef.

  5. Add tomatoes, salt and garam masala, fry until the tomatoes form a paste.

  6. Add matoke and stir carefully not to break them.

  7. Add stock from matoke and leave to simmer for 8 minutes then add courgettes then Corriander and remove it from heat.

  8. 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.