<P> Matoke locally also known as matooke, amatooke, ekitookye in south western Uganda, ekitooke in western Uganda and ikitoke in Rwanda, is a starchy variety of banana . The fruit is harvested green, carefully peeled and then cooked and often mashed or pounded into a meal . In Uganda and Rwanda, the fruit is steam - cooked, and the mashed meal is considered a national dish in both countries . The Buganda tribe of Uganda do however pride themselves in making the best matoke dishes . </P> <P> The medium - sized green fruits, which are of a specific group of banana, the East African Highland bananas (Musa AAA - EA), are known in the Bantu languages of Uganda as matoke . </P> <P> Cooking bananas have long been and still are a common staple crop around the Lake Victoria area of Uganda, and in the West and Kilimanjaro regions of Tanzania . </P>

In uganda the flesh bananas boiled and mashed as a food