Fried Green Tomatoes

In our family, we just dredge the green tomatoes in seasoned flour (just salt & pepper) and fry in Bacon grease. They are truly a taste of my youth. My Mom is 86 and in assisted care and this makes me think of her. I wish she could be home. We always fixed this with Liver, Onions & Bacon with the fried green tomatoes and spinach seasoned with lemon & salt. I really miss my Mom.

I just love Green Fried Maters. I put them on my Blue Pig Burgers. I grind my own beef using a 85% to 15% mixture of beef and fat. I grind it a second time with a smaller die, then mix in ground up Hog Jowl Bacon and Blue Cheese, salt and pepper to taste. I make up plenty and vaccum seal them to put in the freezer. I freeze the Green Fried Tomatoes on baking sheets first, then vaccum seal them. That way, they don’t stick together in the bag.

If I make this again, I’ll not use the cornmeal mixture. I buy 3 minute oatmeal and process it in my food processor until it’s like a flour. I mixed the oatmeal, breadcrumbs and spices, (onion powder,garlic powder etc), for the final breading. I love to use a cornmeal mixture when I’m making fried zucchini, but I felt the green tomatoes didn’t call for it.

I brush on mustard before dipping in milk. It gives them an awesome kick! Worth trying!

Real close to my recipe! Just before you remove them from the skillet sprinkle a little fresh grated parmesan on them. Serve with a bottle of Texas Pete and Buttermilk Ranch Dressing! The heat from the Pete and the cool from the ranch is incredible!

We ate these growing up at grandma’s house in central Illinois. She learned to cook as a “housegirl” for folks in Missouri during the Depression era after losing her mother at a young age. Dredged in flour, fried in bacon grease. But her twist – served with homemade grape jelly “to cut the tart.” Today I’m in my 40s and still eating them with jelly – but fried in canola oil. Delicious! Although I do plan on eating them with the ranch dressing next time I make them. Sounds good!

Who cares about ‘authentic’? The question is ‘are they good?’. If the answer is ‘yes’, you’ve made them right.

I just made this dish with some green tomatoes that we got from our CSA farm. I used sunflower seed oil that we also get from our farm. I followed the recipe as written and thought they were delicious, plus they looked just like your picture!

I don’t care if these aren’t “authentic” – cause they were FABULOUS. We ate them with jalapeno ranch dressing on the side. Now I can’t wait to get my hands on some more green tomatoes!

My mother one day suggested, since this year in our garden that our poor homegrown tomatoes weren’t ripening fast enough, that we need to do something with them. So the very next day of reading up this recipe and my mother getting a laugh out of other peoples comments of using bacon grease (yum!), and bragging about which kind of manure they use (to which we wonder, send some of that wallaby manure towards Canada, then again chicken will do just as good too! :D)
We just simply fell in love with the recipe. At last our unripened tomatoes will be put to use! :)

First time I made these – thanks! Have tons of green tomatoes but frost is imminent….will make them again, but next time will add some parmesan cheese, Tabasco sauce and some herbs to perk up the flavour.

Thanks for the recipe! This was my first time trying fried green tomatoes! I used beautiful heirlooms and they turned out great. I didn’t have any milk so I used water and it was fine! I also used Seasoned Salt in the flour which gave it a nice flavor. I fried them in Olive Oil which makes me at least feel better about frying my food. I mixed ranch with creamed horseradish for my dipping sauce. This native Californian is naive when it comes to Southern food, but an impending trip to New Orleans has inspired me to try learning how to cook it! This recipe will surely be repeated!

If you like fried green tomatoes than you need to make a ‘fried green tomato sandwich’

Each sandwhich is comprised of:
-Sourdough bread
-Monterey Jack Cheese
-1-2 fried green tomatoes
-1-2 red tomatoes slices
-several slices of bacon
-Mayonnaise
-Dijon mustard

The only cooking involved is the fried green tomatoes, however you like to cook them, and the bacon til crisp.

Give it a try. You won’t regret it.

My Dad loved to cook interesting things and he made fried green tomatoes. Never any breading though. When I asked him what he did he said he used whatever was handy.

He never breaded them, with corn meal or flour. So I just sprinkle them with my favourite steak spice and fry them in a little corn oil laced with worcestershire sauce and hot sauce (jamaican or louisiana style) until they are neither firm nor soft.

Awesome.