DISH RESEARCH · Breakfast
Matoke
Green cooking bananas in a tomato-and-onion katogo with scallion and optional sugar.
About Matoke
Sophie's matooke katogo is the tomato-and-onion green-banana dish she describes as a popular Ugandan breakfast and a treat in her household. Her simple rendition centres on green cooking bananas and a generous amount of tomato.
Onion, scallion, salt and pepper provide the savoury seasoning. The tender bananas sit in a soft tomato base, with an optional little sugar to balance particularly tart tomatoes.
The dish can have a thicker or more soupy consistency. Ghee, a side of greens and tea are offered accompaniments.
Allergens in this recipe
Optional additions: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Matoke
Sophie's Ugandan classic matooke katogo with tomato and onion.
- Green cooking bananasBase
- TomatoesBase
- OnionAromatic
- Scallion stalksAromatic
- OilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- SaltSeasoning
- PepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- WaterLiquid
- SugarSeasoning · Optional
- GheeAccompaniment · Optional
- Greens, unspecifiedAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- Tea, unspecifiedAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Green cooking bananas: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual17 matooke greenbanana, broader greenbanana mapping, no plantain/cultivar equivalence.
- Tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Scallion stalks: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual20 explicitly listed but addition stage absent in full29-31; retained, no guessed timing.
- Oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual21/24/28 hand/knife foodcontact and29 frying, same generic oil identity unprovided.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual22 generic pepper; botanical species/colour unprovided.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual25/28/30 explicitly foodcontact soaking plus simmering.
- Sugar (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual26 conditional tart-tomato adjustment, optional.
- Ghee (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual31 offered end-of-recipe accompaniment, parent optional; conventional clarified dairy butter confirms Milk, no upstream formula.
- Greens, unspecified (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual31 named side but species/full recipe absent, offered end-of-recipe accompaniment, parent optional.
- Tea, unspecified (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual31 named serving drink, exact leaf/liquid/sweetener/formula unprovided and unlinked, offered end-of-recipe accompaniment, parent optional.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
Cuisines & regions
- Ugandan Cuisine
- Burundian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Ugandan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Kenyan Inland and Highland CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.