Mtori

🍌 Thick green cooking banana soup with tender beef and its broth.

Ingredients

• 500 g boneless stewing beef, 2 cm cubes
• 800 g peeled green cooking bananas
• 100 g onion
• 150 g tomato
• 15 ml oil
• 1.5 l water, plus a little if needed
• 4 g salt
• 1 g pepper

Preparation

Cover beef with 1.5 l water. Bring to a boil, skim, then simmer partly covered for 90 minutes or until tender

extend if necessary.

Peel and slice green cooking bananas. Chop onion and tomato. Remove meat and measure 1 l broth, topping up with hot water if needed

reserve remaining broth.

Simmer bananas, onion, tomato, oil, salt and pepper in the measured broth for 25 minutes until soft. Remove from heat and mash with a potato masher, gradually adding reserved broth to make a thick pourable soup.

Return beef, heat through for 5 minutes, then divide evenly among 4 bowls. Green plantains are an adaptation

ripe dessert bananas are unsuitable.