this year our garden is stocked with dozens of tomato plants. with the plants weighted with big green tomatoes, i decided to cook up one of my favorite southern foods….fried green tomatoes! this simple recipe is a great way to enjoy the fruits of the tomato plant before they ripen. serve them with your favorite dipping sauce or make a sandwich….try a BLT or a pimento cheese and fried green tomato sandwich.
recipe
ingredients
-green tomatoes
-a pint of buttermilk
-equal parts of all purpose flour and cornmeal
-salt
-olive oil
directions
-slice the tomatoes, about 1/4 inch is fine
-salt the tomatoes and place on a paper towel or a wire rack
-let tomatoes sit and sweat for about 20 minutes or longer
-pat dry with a paper towel
-pour about 1/4- 1/2 cup of oil into a cast iron pan.. you may need to add more as you fry more or clean out the old oil and start fresh again
-turn the heat on to medium high to heat up the oil
-in one bowl, pour your buttermilk
-in another bowl, mix your AP flour and cornmeal together
when the oil is ready… prepare yourself to fry
-dip a tomato slice in the buttermilk, then the flour mixture
-with tongs, gently place the tomato in the hot cast iron pan
-repeat until you have about 4-6 tomato slices in your pan (more or less depending on the size of your pan)
-keep an eye on them and flip when brown
-when tomatoes are done place on a wire rack or on a plate covered in paper towels
-salt to taste
ready to serve!
[...] this inspired a whole freid green tomatoes weekend. we headed to juliette, where the movie was filmed. it was fun to visit and see some of the details of the movie still in place. we of course stopped by the whistlestop cafe and had some fried green tomatoes. [...]
mm i love friend green tomatoes! i haven’t seen any green ones in ny yet
This sounds delicious.