matoke

/ maˈtɔkɛ /

noun

1. (in Uganda) the flesh of bananas, boiled and mashed as a food

Word History and Origins

Origin of matoke¹

C20: from Luganda

Example Sentences

Among the recipes she covers in the book are several from East Africa: matoke, a green banana stew from Uganda; bhajia potatoes fried in chickpea flour from Kenya; and baris iskukaris, a dish of generously spiced rice from Somalia.

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Cassava, matoke and potato gardens withered; livestock died and eventually her family was forced to sell off the land.

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“That’s goat meat, that’s cabbage, that’s banana matoke and that’s chapati,” explains Kagira, taking us on a tour around a steaming communal platter before dropping off some homemade hot sauce and little cups of ginger juice.

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The siblings are not Muslim but said they frequently encountered racism: In school, they were called the n-word, and told that they should stop eating Ugandan food like matoke, a starchy fruit.

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As you climb up the winding reddish-coloured gravel road to Ruhiira - past endless dense plantations of matoke bananas - it can feel at first sight as if it is a world largely unchanged from when I was first working in Uganda close to 50 years ago.

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