Step-by-Step Guide to Make Favorite Matoke(Plantain) Served With Meatballs and Creamed Spinach

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The ingredients needed to make Matoke(Plantain) Served With Meatballs and Creamed Spinach:

1. Make ready 6-10 plantains or as much as you may need
2. Make ready 2 ripe tomatoes
3. Take 1 large onion
4. Make ready 2-3 tsp tomato paste
5. Get Ginger and garlic minced
6. Prepare Green bell pepper
7. Get Vegetable oil
8. Make ready Salt and preferred spices
9. Get Served with creamed spinach and some leftover meatballs

In Uganda, plantain bananas are often wrapped in plantain leaves and steamed until tender. (Other banana-leaf cookery recipes are: Liboké de Viande and Liboké de Poisson.) Learn how to prepare matoke, a variety of banana indigenous to southwest Uganda. The most common methods of cooking matoke are boiling, steaming, or roasting. Once they are cooked, the flesh turns yellow and should soften to about the same consistency as potatoes. Serve with matoke and sliced chiles.

Steps to make Matoke(Plantain) Served With Meatballs and Creamed Spinach:

1. Boil your plantains without peeling them. It will prevent them from turning black as you peel. It also shortens the cooking time. It takes about 10 minutes
2. Once ready, run some cold water over them and remove the skin.
3. Time to make the sauce. Blend your tomatoes, garlic, and ginger. Saute your onions, add in the blended tomatoes, tomato paste and green bell peppers. Add in your spices and let them simmer for a while before adding in your boiled plantains.
4. Let them cook for a few minutes before turning off the flame.
5. Meatballs in coconut sauce - - Get your meat balls ready. I had about 5 left over. Saute your onions, tomatoes,tomato paste, garlic, ginger, and any other preferred spices. Add some coconut milk and throw in the meatballs. Let them cook till ready.
6. For the creamed spinach - - Saute your onions, and garlic till translucent. Pour in a little cream (I used coconut cream) before adding the spinach. Let them cook for a few minutes.
7. Serve and enjoy. Adjust salt and spices to suit your taste.

Once they are cooked, the flesh turns yellow and should soften to about the same consistency as potatoes. Serve with matoke and sliced chiles. 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. In this episode, Miss Mandi shares a throwdown recipe of how to make matoke that she learnt from her mama & she added her own little twist to it!

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