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- noun mashed boiled
banana orplantain , staple food inUganda .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bananas for cooking, commonly known as matoke, are gaining popularity in the UK and U.S., which have large populations of Ugandans in the Diaspora.
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Outside, under the flame trees, women sipping milky tea shelled beans and sold Nile Perch broth or a peanut sauce to go with a starchy-green banana mush called matoke.
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You won't starve on matoke, I'm told, but you certainly won't thrive.
Jeffrey Sachs's $200 Billion Dream Munk, Nina 2007
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Rachel cooked me a delicious lunch of matoke (friend plantain), rice, and beans.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Thought I'd really immerse myself in the culture of the town .... spent most of my time eating a heady mix of cashew nuts, grilled matoke (plaintains, raw banana) and having some serengeti beer.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Steamed matoke (vegetarian), side dishes, tropical fruits.
Planet Sun 2009
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She was so kind and sweet, showing wonderful hospitality, brough out like 9 different dishes - matoke (boiled plantains), "Irish" (white potatoes), rice, 2 different kinds of greens, vegetables, noodles, and so on.
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LINKED A boy carrying matoke, a bananalike fruit that is a staple in Uganda.
NYT > Global Home 2009
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