About the dish
Matoke are the green, unsweet cooking bananas of the Great Lakes region and also the dish made from them. In the traditional Ugandan version the peeled fruit is wrapped in banana leaves and steamed for several hours, then mashed into a soft yellow purée with a mild, slightly tangy taste. It is served with a thick sauce of ground groundnuts (binyebwa), with beans, stew or fish. A simpler home version is also popular, with chunks of banana stewed with tomatoes, onions and meat.
Main ingredients
- green cooking bananas
- groundnuts
- onion
- tomatoes
- banana leaves
Rwanda: In Rwanda cooking bananas are called ibitoke and are often stewed with tomato and onion, or with meat or beans as agatogo.
Uganda: In Uganda the word matooke means both cooking bananas and food in general; the dish is especially important in Buganda.
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