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Moms Fried Green Tomatos Recipe


Moms Fried Green Tomatos Recipe
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If the frost hits the garden early and you are at a loss for what to do with all your green tomatos, you will never go wrong with this! My mother and I still have to try hard to allow some tomatos to ripen before we use them all for this dish!

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Ingredients
  • Green tomatos, ( I actually like to use tomatoes that are just starting to get some color. Not too ripe though or they will fall apart!)
  • Corn meal
  • Shortening (or your dietary choice, My mother still swears by Crisco.)
  • Salt and pepper to taste.

Directions
  1. Heat enough shortening in large skillet to make approx. 1/4 in. deep over med-hi heat.
  2. Slice tomatos 1/4 to 1/3 in. thick. GREEN tomatos may be sliced thinner if you like, while MORE RIPE tomatos should be left thicker or they may fall apart while cooking.
  3. With corn meal in a shallow dish, coat each side of tomato slices with a generous amount of corn meal.
  4. When shortening is hot, lay slices into skillet. Salt and pepper to taste. DO NOT move slices (except to check doneness) untill cornmeal is crispy, otherwise you may lose your cornmeal coating. Then turn and fry other side.
  5. Some of my family members prefer to remove slices to a plate with paper towels to blot extra shortning, while others insist it makes the fried tomatos soggy. This is up to your personal prefference.
  6. Lose yourself to the tomato-y goodness..........

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Thanks for posting. We loved fried tomatoes! Even if they are red! lol. We can eat this day and night. To complete a meal we serve with fresh corn on the cob loaded in butter! What better meal than that?


Goood stuff. Saturday I was in vicksburg and ate at a restaurant, Rusty's, on the Mississippi river. They had fried green tomatoes with crabmeat and hollandaise. I have a recipe posted with shrimp cream sauce. Toppings are gaining in popularity. But naked or topped, they're good.


After I posted this recipe, I got to see just how many fried green tomato versions there were posted! I loved it! You get to see everyone's personal touch to a universally loved dish! As for what else I eat with this?....(smile).........I usually make a meal of fried tomatos themselves..........yummmmmmmmmm.


Wow! I've never had this, but it sounds delicious! Imma try it...


These sound dangerous! :)


I have many green tomatoes every summer and I will always need a recipe like this one.
Five forks and a smile :)


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