Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, green bananas(matoke) shepherd pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Green bananas(matoke) Shepherd pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Green bananas(matoke) Shepherd pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
The matoke is then mashed while still wrapped in the leaves or bags and often served on a fresh banana leaf. It is typically eaten with a sauce made of vegetables, ground peanut, or some type of meat (goat or beef). Matoke-green bananas common dish in east Africa, very healthy and easy to make.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook green bananas(matoke) shepherd pie using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Green bananas(matoke) Shepherd pie:
- Prepare 1 and a half kg of green bananas
- Prepare 1/2 kg minced meat
- Take 1 large carrot(grated)
- Take 1 onion
- Get 2 tomatoes(peeled)
- Prepare Salt, 1tsp paprika
- Prepare 1 tsp tumeric powder
- Prepare Cooking oil
- Prepare 1 egg wash (optional)
Mix in green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and onion. Break banana bunches into single bananas. Add to a stockpot and cover with water. Bananas will lose their color and split open.
Instructions 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!
Remove bananas from water and set aside to cool. (Tip: use gloves when working with green bananas, as the sap is very sticky!) Once cooled, peel bananas and chop into ½. Matoke are peeled using a knife, wrapped in the plant's leaves (or plastic bags), and set in a cooking pot (Swahili: sufuria) atop the banana stalks. The pot is then placed on a charcoal or wood fire and the matoke is steamed for a couple of hours, water is poured into the bottom of the cooking pot multiple times. The stalks in the bottom of the pot serve to keep the leaf-wrapped fruits above. Yellow Bananas It goes against the grain for many of us to eat unripe fruit, but a banana is an exception to the usual rule, at least in the Caribbean islands.
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