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 is a variety of banana indigenous to southwest Uganda.

Cooked and mashed matoke is the nation al dish of Uganda.

Matoke (or Matooke) refer to the plantain or plantain banana in Uganda, where plantains are a staple crop.

In Uganda, plantain bananas are often wrapped in plantain leaves and steamed until tender.

You can have Matoke using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Matoke

  1. Prepare 5 pieces of potatoes.

  2. You need 2 pieces of carrots.

  3. You need 2 of large arrow roots.

  4. It’s 1 of bulb Onions.

  5. Prepare 2 of large Tomatoes.

This dish can be made with or without the meat.

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 all your potatoes, carrots and arrow roots. Wash them till clean..

  2. Cut into small bite size pieces..

  3. Dice your tomatoes and Onions..

  4. Preheat your pan, then add cooking oil. Onions go first till golden brown..

  5. I like to add my potatoes and carrots before tomatoes..

  6. Add the tomatoes and lastly arrow roots..

  7. Add some water and cook over medium to low heat until all the potatoes are cooked..

  8. Add salt to taste..

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.