Monday, October 25, 2010

Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried green tomatoes are delicious and they taste a hundred times better than uncooked unripened green tomatoes. They're also extremely easy to cook.

Ingredients
unripened green tomatoes
flour
corn meal
1 tsp salt
pepper to taste
olive oil
1-2 eggs
1/2 cup milk

1. Cut the green tomatoes into 1cm thick slices
2. Mix the eggs with some milk in a small bowl
3. Mix the flour and cornmeal with the salt and pepper in another bowl





4. dip a green tomato slice in the flour cornmeal mixture
5. then dip it in the egg milk mixture and then a second time in the flour cornmeal mixture so that the slice is evenly coated.
6. Place aside on plate and repeat this process for the amount of slices that can fit in your pan.




7. Heat up enough olive oil to completely cover the bottom of the frying pan and make sure the oil is hot before adding the slices.
8. Add the slices and let them cook till they turn a dark golden brown on their bottoms.
9. Flip them over and repeat so that they are golden brown on both sides.
10. Repeat the entire process till all the green tomato slices are cooked. Remember that olive oil burns easily and so if you are making a large batch of this, make sure to change the oil. Burnt olive oil is not healthy.



ps. There is a story behind this. The Landlord came over last week to do a house inspection and afterwards I went outside to show her the compost bins I had recently built. We started talking about the tomato plants in the garden and I asked her if the green tomatoes would turn red. She said that by now they probably wont, but I can make fried green tomatoes from them. She then asked if I had seen the movie. So... here are the fried green tomatoes from our garden and by the way, the movie 'Fried Green tomatoes' is actually quite good.

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