Easiest Way to Make Tasty 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 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Matoke

1. You need of Banana.

2. You need of Potatoes.

3. Prepare of Spinach.

4. You need of Garlic.

5. Prepare of Ginger.

6. You need of Tomatoes.

7. Prepare of Salt and cooking oil.

8. You need of Meat.

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 banana and potatoes, cut them in small size, boil meat until soft.

2. In a cooking pot, fry onions, add garlic, ginger, stir well.

3. Put meat and mix of banana and potatoes together in a pot and combine, add blended tomatoes.

4. Add a cup of water and let them cook in a lower heat.. When ready add spinach and cover them for 15mins….

5. Serve well hot, enjoy with a glass of juice.

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.