Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, matoke and greens. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Matoke and Greens is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Matoke and Greens is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Matoke-green bananas is a common dish in east Africa, very healthy and easy to make. Come join me as i teach you how to prepare the best matoke. Enjoy my take on Kenya style Matoke/ green bananas, very easy chakula(food) to make delicious. Hope you enjoy and thanks for.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook matoke and greens using 6 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Matoke and Greens:
- Make ready 5 bananas
- Prepare 2 tomatoes
- Take 1 large onion
- Get 100 g spinuch
- Make ready Salt
- Prepare Oil
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. Plaintains and green bananas (matoke) are a staple part of the diet in Uganda and much of East Africa. Matoke is also the name given to a delicious, rib-sticking plantain stew that is a Ugandan. Matoke cook down like spinach and what looks like too much is somehow never quite enough.
Steps to make Matoke and Greens:
- Peel the potatoes and bananas
- Wash them
- Put the onions in a sufuria and oil til they cook to golden brown
- Add tomatoes and salt
- Add potatoes and bananas
- Add 1/2 liter water
- Waite to cook
- Steam the spinich
- Serve when hot
Matoke is also the name given to a delicious, rib-sticking plantain stew that is a Ugandan. 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. A staple curry of green bananas cooked with a. East African Highland bananas (EAHB) are triploid banana cultivars originating from the African Great Lakes region.
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