Recipe: Tasty Matoke

Recipe: Tasty Matoke Delicious, fresh and tasty.

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 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Matoke

1. Prepare of Onions.

2. Prepare of Tomatoes.

3. Prepare of Cooking oil.

4. It’s of Bananas.

5. You need of Potatoes.

6. Prepare of Tumeric.

7. Prepare of Water and salt.

8. It’s 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 step by step

1. Put meat in a sufuria and fly it for 6 minutes add cooking oil and onions in the sufuria.

2. Add tomatoes then add potatoes and cook for a while.

3. Add bananas,salt and tumeric.

4. After 20 minutes it will be ready.

5. Serve and enjoy.

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.