Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, green bananas(matoke) shepherd pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Green bananas, water, cooking oil, tomatoes, onions, garlic, table salt. Peel the bananas and cut them in small pieces. Fry onions to golden brown, add cut tomatoes and stir to make paste.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook green bananas(matoke) shepherd pie using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Green bananas(matoke) Shepherd pie:
- Take 1 and a half kg of green bananas
- Get 1/2 kg minced meat
- Get 1 large carrot(grated)
- Get 1 onion
- Prepare 2 tomatoes(peeled)
- Get Salt, 1tsp paprika
- Take 1 tsp tumeric powder
- Get Cooking oil
- Get 1 egg wash (optional)
Cooked and mashed matoke is the nation's official food dish. It comes from the family of bananas known as the East African Highland bananas. Matoke is used mainly for cooking when they are green and unripe. The matoke is then mashed while still wrapped in the leaves or bags and often served on a fresh banana leaf.
Steps to make Green bananas(matoke) Shepherd pie:
- Prepare your ingredients….. In a sufuria boil your minced meat with little water while and stir…..when all the water has evaporated from the meat, add enough cooking oil, onion and stir….leave it for about 3mins to cook….
- Now add your grated carrots, tomatoes, paprika, salt and tumeric powder….stir let them cook for about 10mins or until the tomatoes have become juicy….!!
- Peel and wash your bananas, cut them into two pieces….put them in a pot with water and little oil and salt….boil them until soft….then mash them using a mwiko….
- Cover your pie baking tin with a foil, spread your cooked minced on the foil…..then on top spread your mashed bananas you can egg wash or leave it like that…..bake @180degrees for 30mins
- Once ready remove from the oven let it rest for about 10mins then serve…..enjoy!
It is typically eaten with a sauce made of vegetables, ground peanut, or some type of meat (goat or beef). While uncooked, the matoke is white and fairly hard; cooking turns it soft and yellow. Cooking bananas are banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking. They may be eaten ripe or unripe and are generally starchy. Green bananas are not dessert bananas.
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