Amid the trendy superfoods and exotic ingredients, a humble hero deserves attention; matooke, also known as the green banana. Matooke has been a staple food for centuries in many cultures, ...

Matooke is a starchy dish mainly eaten in Uganda and other East African countries like Kenya and Tanzania. It is Uganda’s staple food. This dish is made by boiling and mashing green plantain bananas.

On a humid morning in Namusango Village, Kamonkoli South Ward, Kamonkoli Town Council in Budaka District, 58-year-old farmer James Kainja walks at the edge of what used to be his flourishing matooke ...

About two million tonnes of peeled, vacuum-packed matooke has been ordered for transport by air cargo flight to the USA as appetite for the Uganda home-based made product increases. Ugandans living in ...

Dutch company Gabanna is creating a new market for Ugandan 'matooke' green bananas using the starchy, low-sugar flour in new product applications from pasta, cereal, and snacks to a standalone ...

Kampala — MATOOKE is Buganda's traditional dish and one of the most common foods in Uganda. The green plantains are peeled and cooked in water or steamed in banana leaves. When ready, matooke turns ...

The effects of climate change in the country and the world at large cannot be underrated, the reason many are devising ways to curb it. It is for that reason that a group of enthusiastic runners ...

Kampala — In recent years, value addition to matooke, to make it more valuable and exportable has been carried out and will soon spread throughout all matooke-growing areas of Uganda. Matooke can now ...

What you need to know:As for the food, as good as expected with the signature dish still being the bountiful­ katogo with the large mousakala matooke ‘fingers’ served­ with pork and costing a very ...

A once-reliable crop that provided funds for the education of children and sustained livelihoods is now playing second fiddle to other crops On a humid morning in Namusango Village, Kamonkoli South ...