Green Tomatoes

[oldpop]

Have you ever eaten fried green tomatoes? If so did you like them or dislike them? If you cook them would you share you recipe?

My recipe is pretty simple. I bread them lightly, add salt and pepper and fry them up.


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[RadishRose]

I've eaten them at a fair once; they were OK but nothing to write home about

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

@oldpop I love fried green tomatoes and do exactly what you do. I generally wait until the end of the growing season when the tomatoes are small and most likely won't ripen before the first frost.
After they are done I like to put catsup on them. Its like putting tomatoes on tomatoes but I think it goes well.

 

[MickaC]

Fried green tomatoes were a favorite with my X and his family.
I would bread them like @oldpop had mentioned or sometimes not....didn't deep fry them....just in a pan with a light coat of cooking spray.
But
I never developed a taste for them.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I like them when they are still green but just starting to ripen.

I slice them, dip them in a little seasoned flour, pancake mix, or Jiffy cornbread mix. Then I dip them in beaten egg, back into the flour, and fry them in bacon grease.

I also like the English version of a small ripe tomato cut in half and fried cut-side down with bacon and eggs.

 

[oldpop]

I have seen the prebreaded in the frozen vegetable section of a grocery store. They were decent in a pinch but nothing like the fresh ones.

 

[mellowyellow]

One year when we decided to grow tomatoes, we made green tomato pickles, they were divine but too much trouble so now I buy them instead.

 

[Shero]

I love green tomatoes cooked so:

1. slice thickly, coat with breadcrumbs and fry.

2. fry with onions and red bell peppers, yum!

 

[Lewkat]

I love fried green tomatoes, southern style. I also tried them with Panko seasoned and flavored coating and they were lucious.

 

[jujube]

I love them but hate making them. I'll always get some at a fair, though.

 

[oldpop]

It has been a few years since I have eaten any. Hard to grow slicing tomatoes here. I tried for four years. I start all my vegetable plants indoors from seed around the first of February and put them out at the end of March or the first part of April. I have tried them in the ground, in containers, in soilless medium and straw bales. They always get a fungus/blight around the time they flower. I have tried most fungicides organic and chemical but nothing seems to work.

From what I have read it is a known problem in the southeastern U.S. A few years ago Cornell University came up with a blight resistant cultivar called Iron Lady. I tried those and still got the blight. Peppers, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, cherry tomatoes and squash do well here. We usually do not get frost until the middle or late November so we have a fairly long growing season. I miss me some fried green tomatoes though.

 

[dseag2]

I had never eaten Fried Green Tomatoes until we moved to Dallas. I love them with a great ranch or aioli sauce!

 

[terry123]

I love fried green tomatoes, southern style. I also tried them with Panko seasoned and flavored coating and they were lucious.

Love them too, Southern style.

 

[IFortuna]

I had never eaten Fried Green Tomatoes until we moved to Dallas. I love them with a great ranch or aioli sauce!

I love mine with Thousand Island dressing. This is how I had them in Mexico at a restaurant called "Tomatoes".