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 5 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Matoke
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It’s 1/2 kg of unripe bananas.
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Prepare 1 of onion.
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Prepare 1 tbsp of turmeric.
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It’s of Enough cooking oil.
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It’s to taste of salt.
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
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Peel your bananas and wash them. Allow them to drain excess water.
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Fry your onions then add turmeric. Add the bananas and bring to boil until soft. Serve while still hot with any stew.
If you use green bananas for this dish, make sure they are very green.
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Matoke, also known as plantains or green bananas, are eaten daily in Uganda.
They are often wrapped in their own leaves and steamed.
