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Plantain/Matoke

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Jojobells1986 · 06/01/2013 20:52

We went to Uganda a few years ago & were fed a lot of matoke by our hosts. Having discovered that our local Tesco stocks plantain now, we'd quite like to give it a go at home. As far as I can tell, the Ugandan way to prepare mashed plantains is to wrap chunks of unripe plantains in their leaves & steam them over a charcoal fire. We have no leaves & clearly no charcoal fire in our English kitchen so need another way to do it!

I've found recipes suggesting boiling or steaming them works well but it seems like they need to be steamed for hours or boiled for about 25 minutes. These timings don't seem right in relation to each other to me. Any suggestions about how we can recreate this dish at home?

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Coconutfeet · 06/01/2013 22:03

I've bought frozen banana leaves from a Thai supermarket before. If you could get hold of something like that could you then bake them in the oven? Baking parchment or foil could work instead.

I baked a very ripe plantain for ds the other day just in its skin. It didn't take long at all, maybe 15mins. Unripe ones would take considerably longer, I'm sure.

Sorry. Not very helpful! Didn't want you to go unanswered though.

Drladybird · 07/01/2013 09:14

I cut plantain into slices and then fry in butter and sprinkle of salt. Delicious. I'm not sure about mashing though...

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