Boiled matoke with rice #4weeks challenges #authormarathon. On this episode of Food Time Chef Ali prepares Swahili plantains Matoke in coconut sauce to go with some great thai inspired beef. Cooked and mashed matoke is the nation's official food dish. Matoke is a variety of banana indigenous to southwest Uganda.
Simply eliminate the beef and use water or vegetable stock. Banana dishes are the 'King' of all foods in Uganda. Green bananas are actually not sweet, so that people love them as staple meal. You can have Boiled matoke with rice #4weeks challenges #authormarathon using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Boiled matoke with rice #4weeks challenges #authormarathon
- You need of Green bananas.
- It's of Rice.
- Prepare of Tomatoes.
- Prepare of Onions.
Matoke is boiled and mashed green bananas and accompanied with other meals such as stews. Matoke is a banana variety that is indigenous to Uganda. They are shorter than regular bananas and are somewhat thicker at the mid section as a 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. The word matoke is originally from the Ugandans of the Lake Victoria region.
Boiled matoke with rice #4weeks challenges #authormarathon step by step
- Peel the green bananas then wash them.
- Chop the onions and tomatoes then fry the onions until its golden brown then add tomatoes allow it to cook until its ready.
- Add matoke to the mixture and allow to cook for 7 minutes until it's ready.
- Fry rice and allow it to cook for 10 minutes theb serve it matoke.
- Enjoy the meal with juice or soda.
It refers to the cooked green bananas. This plantain grows in Uganda The east African varieties although the region has many banana varieties, Uganda is the bananas republic. Matoke is the most common in the region. Recently found a recipe for Ugandan Matoke which calls for Plantains. Knowing nothing much about plantains I went Googling to find out more and to see just how ripe the plantains are supposed to be.