Recipe: Eating on a Dime Rice matoke

Recipe: Eating on a Dime Rice matoke Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Rice matoke. 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. This dish can be made with or without the meat.

A dish of plantain-squash and dried fish John Hanning Speke John Hanning Speke, in his Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (London: J.

By, "plantain-squash" he seems to have meant plantain (which is a fruit).

Matoke is a variety of banana indigenous to southwest Uganda.

You can cook Rice matoke using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Rice matoke

1. You need 1 cup of rice.

2. It’s 5 of big unripe bananas.

3. It’s 1 cup of minji.

4. It’s 2 of Tomatoes.

5. Prepare 1 of Onion.

6. It’s of Oil.

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.

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

Plantains appear similar to bananas, but whereas bananas are sweet, soft, edible fruit, plantains are hard and require cooking.

Rice matoke step by step

1. In a big sufuria slice your onions add oil and cook untill golden brown.

2. Add your tomatoes and cook for 2 minutes.

3. Add the bananas cook for 8 minutes add your minji cook for 2 minutes.

4. Add your rice mix them then add your water cook for 15-20 Minutes.

5. Ready to serve.

In Uganda, where plantains are common, matoke refers to both local plantains and a staple dish made with boiled or steamed plantains.

Rinse rice in a colander until the water runs clear.

Bring water and rice to a boil, cover, and reduce heat to low.

Uncover and fluff with a fork.

Plaintains and green bananas (matoke) are a staple part of the diet in Uganda and much of East Africa.