Recipe: Appetizing 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 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Matoke

  1. It’s of Unripe green bananas.

  2. You need of Spring onions.

  3. It’s of Ginger.

  4. Prepare of Coriander.

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 and wash the bananas. Place in a sufuria, add some salt and water. Bring to a boil until they are ready.

  2. While the bananas are boiling, chop the spring onions and grate the ginger.Place them in a pan and fry them till they are golden brown(take care they dont burn). Set them aside. Chop the coriander and set aside..

  3. Once the bananas are ready, drain all the water (worry not as the bananas will have enough moisture to help in the mashing).

  4. Start mashing, add some salt if need be, add the fried onions and chopped coriander as you continue mashing till they are well incorporated into the matoke.

  5. Once the matoke is well mashed, serve.

  6. You can serve the matoke with beef stew and vegetables.

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.