Recipe: Perfect Green bananas (matoke)
Recipe: Perfect Green bananas (matoke) Delicious, fresh and tasty.
Green bananas (matoke). A staple savoury dish of Uganda is this dish of green bananas cooked with a handful of spices, heaps of garlic and plenty of salty butter. Matoke is one of the favorite food in Africa. This dish can be made with or without meat, and the taste is superb.
If green matoke are left for too long, they will ripen as ordinary bananas would.
Matoke are sometimes referred to as plantains, rather than bananas because they are eaten after cooking.
If the bananas are fully ripe, they can be consumed as normal fruit, but it is considered a waste since matoke is known as a green cooking banana.
You can have Green bananas (matoke) using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Green bananas (matoke)
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You need of Green bananas.
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It’s of Water.
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Prepare of Cooking oil.
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You need of Tomatoes.
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It’s of Onions.
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Prepare of Garlic.
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You need of Table salt.
These bananas are typically mashed and paired with.
Matoke cook down like spinach and what looks like too much is somehow never quite enough.
The dish I'm thinking about is Spicy Ugandan Matoke Mash.
Add the meat to the mashed matoke.
Green bananas (matoke) step by step
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Peel the bananas and cut them in small pieces.
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Wash them 3 times to clean.
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Fry onions to golden brown, add cut tomatoes and stir to make paste.
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Add garlic and salt.
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Put the bananas and stir.
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Put water and cook for 30 minutes.
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Serve with either kachumbari or fried meat.
Put in the light coconut milk and mix well.
East African Highland bananas (EAHB) are triploid banana cultivars originating from the African Great Lakes region.
They are a staple food crop in Uganda, Tanzania and other Great Lakes countries.
As you can see, green banana is healthy for anyone looking to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
In fact, you can use the matoke without adding meat if you wish because the bananas contain all the necessary.
