Recipe: Tasty Fried matoke
Recipe: Tasty Fried matoke Delicious, fresh and tasty.
Fried matoke. Plantains are a hard, starchy tree fruit similar in density and texture to potatoes and winter squash. They were sweet, sprinkled with salt but they didn't need it. The plantain in the Latin world is much larger and has a slight different taste.
Remember these beautiful green bananas I had shared some time ago?
Look at the size of that matoke!
They came from one of the banana plants here in the compound and I have been thinking of different ways to use them up before they ripen.
You can have Fried matoke using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Fried matoke
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It’s 6 of whole green bananas.
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Prepare 2 of tomatoes.
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Prepare 1 of onion.
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Prepare of Garlic.
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It’s of Salt.
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Prepare of Cooking oil.
The matoke fries developed a silky, sweeter, and layered flavors.
The taste was a much welcome change from the usual french fries.
A replacement of potato is always matoke (green raw bananas) full in vitamins and a beautiful savory flavor makes this snack another Kenyan favorite.
Available in Chilli and Salted flavours.
Fried matoke instructions
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Peel your bananas and chop into pieces and set them aside in water..
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Heat your sufuria and pour some oil and let it heat well.
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Add in your chopped onions and garlic and let them cook till golden brown,add in your chopped tomatoes and stir till cooked then add in salt.
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Add in your washed and chopped banana pieces and stir, then add a littlw water to boil then cover to simmer. Allow to cook for 30 minutes then serve with a drink of your choice. Enjoy😋😋!!.
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.
Matoke is a variety of banana indigenous to southwest Uganda.
It comes from the family of bananas known as the East African Highland bananas.
