Cooked bananas.

Nairobi, Kenya
January 12, 2022 10:21am CST
I'm having cooked bananas for supper. They are sweet. The ingredients are oil, onions, tomatoes, banana, water and salt. We call them "matoke" in Swahili. It simply means cooked bananas.
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@just4him (306236)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
13 Jan 22
I've never had cooked bananas. Sounds interesting.
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@just4him (306236)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
14 Jan 22
@mildredtabitha Those must be difficult to peel.
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• Nairobi, Kenya
14 Jan 22
@just4him We peel with a knife, then wash, then chop and cook
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• Nairobi, Kenya
14 Jan 22
We cooked the green unripe bananas
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@sinari (4997)
• Indonesia
13 Jan 22
The bananas you cook look delicious. I've never had bananas with tomatoes and onions before. But next time I want to try it.
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• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Jan 22
I'm glad you look forward to trying it. Yes they are delicious. You cook the same way you cook potatoes
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• Nairobi, Kenya
14 Jan 22
@sinari You are welcomed. Remember to use the unripe bananas
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@sinari (4997)
• Indonesia
14 Jan 22
@mildredtabitha Oh, I see. ok, later i will try it.thank you
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@averygirl72 (37726)
• Philippines
13 Jan 22
Wow this recipe sounds really new to me. I haven't eaten a banana with onions
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@averygirl72 (37726)
• Philippines
14 Jan 22
@mildredtabitha Okay so unripe bananas is like vegetables. Interesting
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• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Jan 22
Make sure to use unripe bananas. Those are the one we cook
• Nairobi, Kenya
14 Jan 22
@averygirl72 mmmhhhh. I've never really called them vegetables. Although they are cooked like that.
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
12 Jan 22
Is that actually what we would call bananas or is it plantains? I wouldn't cook what we call bananas unless in a cake or something like that. I hope you enjoyed it.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
13 Jan 22
@mildredtabitha In banana bread here we use over-ripe bananas. Plantains look like bananas but are much bigger. I understand they don't taste good unless cooked in some way. unripe bananas on the left and ripe and unripe plantains on the center and right of photo.
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• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Jan 22
@DaddyEvil ooh I get it. I understand what you mean by plantains. The ones we cook are the unripe ones. The green ones
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• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Jan 22
Yes I did enjoy. Unripe bananas can be cooked. I think in a cake they use ripe bananas
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
17 Jan 22
I love cooked bananas or cooked ripe plantains. I miss that food.
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@thelme55 (76476)
• Germany
19 Jan 22
@mildredtabitha Yes, I have experienced it. I was born in the Philippines and we have those kinds of bananas in my yard in my home country.
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• Nairobi, Kenya
20 Jan 22
@thelme55 ooh that's good. We also have a banana garden in my rural home. Many bananas have grown and some ripe on the tree
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• Nairobi, Kenya
18 Jan 22
Yeah it's so sweet. I'm glad you have experience with it
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18 Jan 22
I never tried cooked bananas.
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• Nairobi, Kenya
19 Jan 22
Would you want to try? It's the unripe bananas actually
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• Nairobi, Kenya
19 Jan 22
@Queenoflife ooh alright. I mean the green bananas. But don't try if you are not sure you like it
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19 Jan 22
@mildredtabitha I don't know if I would like a combination of onion and banana.
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@snowy22315 (169966)
• United States
16 Jan 22
It sounds interesting. I would try it.
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• Nairobi, Kenya
16 Jan 22
That's good. I'm glad you would try it
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
13 Jan 22
it actually looks good. Where you live I imagine lots of bananas are used in cooking.
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• Nairobi, Kenya
14 Jan 22
Yes we do. Most women here like preparing this dish but they add other things too
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@Jenaisle (14078)
• Philippines
14 Jan 22
I didn't know you could add tomatoes and onions to bananas. We do have that here too, but we only add sugar. I will have to cook that and taste it, sounds delicious,
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• Nairobi, Kenya
14 Jan 22
Sugar is added to ripe bananas. The unripe ones (green ones) are the ones we cook
@RebeccasFarm (86754)
• United States
14 Jan 22
This sounds super delicious. Next time I have bananas I may try to do this.
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• United States
14 Jan 22
@mildredtabitha Oh thanks for telling me
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• Nairobi, Kenya
14 Jan 22
Make sure the bananas are green and not ripe. Not all types of bananas can be cooked
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• Nairobi, Kenya
14 Jan 22
@RebeccasFarm you are most welcomed
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• United States
13 Jan 22
I love bananas but have never cooked them like that. It does look good and I like all those ingredients
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• Nairobi, Kenya
14 Jan 22
Yes. We only cook the unripe bananas never the ripe ones
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@JudyEv (325809)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Jan 22
I wouldn't have thought of cooking bananas with tomatoes and onions.
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@JudyEv (325809)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Jan 22
@mildredtabitha Okay, thanks for the info. We would cook just-ripe ones and have them in pancakes perhaps.
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• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Jan 22
@JudyEv yes. Banana pancake. The ripe bananas mixed with eggs and then fried will give mouth watering banana pancake
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• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Jan 22
Only unripe bananas can be cooked. The same way you cook potatoes
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@Rashnag (30598)
• Surat, India
13 Jan 22
It's interesting to know. Enjoy your meal. Here we cook bananas with jaggery and ghee. It tastes yummy
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• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Jan 22
Yours sounds delicious too. I enjoyed. Thank you
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@soymex (1098)
• Glasgow, Scotland
12 Jan 22
It looks good. I'll try to do it too!
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• Nairobi, Kenya
12 Jan 22
I hope yours turns out well. Thanks
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@soymex (1098)
• Glasgow, Scotland
12 Jan 22
@mildredtabitha I hope so too!
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@jobelbojel (34729)
• Philippines
12 Jan 22
I have tried this before when I was still a very young kid.
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• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Jan 22
Would you like to try again?
@marlina (154166)
• Canada
12 Jan 22
I never had cooked bananas
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• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Jan 22
They are cooked the way potatoes are cooked. But the bananas should be unripe
@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
13 Jan 22
We have a pork dish where we put sliced bananas for a difference in taste. I don’t think we cook bananas like that.
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• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Jan 22
are the sliced bananas ripe or you use unripe ones?
• Philippines
13 Jan 22
It sounds good to me!
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• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Jan 22
It's really good. You should try it out soon
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@saytama (564)
• Friedrichshafen, Germany
12 Jan 22
I've never tried anything like it, it's very interesting how it tastes
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• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Jan 22
Yes. It tastes almost like cooked potatoes