The larger of my two tomato plants is reaching its limit in my yard. The fruit is really not ripening any more so I have a great deal of green tomatoes. SO I decided to try to make fried green tomatoes. I sliced a firm green tomato into roughly 1/2" rounds, dipped it in a milk and egg mixture, and dredged them in flour seasoned with salt and pepper. I pan fried them in a shallow puddle of hot canola oil until they were a nice brown and no longer really hard. Then I laid them on a plate with paper towels to soak up some of the oil.
Results: Not that exciting. I really kinda felt cheated by the flavor of these. I just really wanted them to be better. I ate them with some cholula hot sauce and that perked them up but overall, they were kinda disappointing.
Ideas: I also read about dredging them in cornmeal instead of flour. So my idea is maybe using cornmeal and some more spices would jazz them up. I am unwilling to totally give up on fried green tomatoes.
Does anyone else have any uses/ideas for green tomatoes?
