Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes are a southern way to use leftover tomatoes from your garden that didn’t ripen. Soak, bread and fry the tomatoes for a delicious side dish for dinner or a snack.
To see the step by step directions with pictures and a printable recipe card click HERE.
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Categories: My Garden, Vegetables/Slaws/Salads
While I’ve eaten these a few times, I’ve never actually made them. I am inspired Diane!
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Wow now I find that hard to believe, you make everything!!!!! I hope you try them and I can’t see what you do with yours!
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I will certainly put them on my list, maybe sooner rather than later since we are approaching the green tomato deluge!
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This certainly is an amazing recipe as I have never thought of using green tomatoes in such a wonderful way.I have tasted been tomatoes curry in a thick gravy with pieces of broken roasted papad in one of our famous restaurants.Thanks a lot for sharing.Take care.🙏😊🌹
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Wow now I would love to taste that, it sounds delicious!
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Yes,you try that and share the recipe .Thanks a lot madam.🙏😊🌹
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Sorry that will be green tomatoes.☝
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I should try this!
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Yes give it a try. I haven’t heard any negative comments about them yet.
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Thank you! Have a great weekend!
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Looks wonderful! Yummy! Thanks, Diane! xx Michael
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Thank you they are a staple in many southern states I am told.
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Yum!
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Thanks Pam! Have you had them?
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Yes I had fried green tomatoes years and years ago! Going to try them again with your recipe!
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Looks so good. It wasn’t until just a few years ago that I got to taste my first Fried Green Tomato. So good! Prior to that, I always associated It with the movie starring Jessica Tandy. Love your recipe and great use of leftover tomatoes.
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Thanks Ab and yes a wonderful movie!
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Thank you so much! ❤️
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I do love these!!
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I figured you would!💕
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Perfect timing on the post. I wanted to let you know that I tried your tip on picking tomatoes that were just beginning to blush and ripening them inside. It worked! But I took it a step further. We were leaving northern NM for a season and had to disconnect our drip watering system to our container tomatoes. So we picked everything on the plants. My husband intended to make a green salsa from the green tomatoes, almost as if they were tomatillos. We haven’t done anything with them except wash them and throw them in a bowl on the counter. They are ALL gradually starting to ripen. The former green ones are not as sweet as the ones with a blush and the skin is a little tough, but they are still better than the store’s gassed tomatoes.
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Amen I can’t stand store bought tomatoes. We pay more for the tomatoes ripened on the vine which are so much better but still not as good as our garden tomatoes.
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If you want to be really decadent, sprinkle with some crabmeat that has been dressed in a mayo based dressing. Yum!
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Oh yes now I’m drooling!
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Here in the Carolinas these are a staple. If you ever go to a party here and they don’t serve them…leave. Same goes for deviled eggs.
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That is so funny! All of our picnic functions we have to have deviled eggs too. Guess who always makes them? Lol
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Loved the movie!
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Me too it was SO good!
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They’re actually better than a plain tomato 😏
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I remembered you loved these from my original post. I thought they tasted good but I love a plate of tomatoes sliced and salted…yum!
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You sound like my wife… slice them up, salt, pepper, and Mayo. Good for y’all 😂
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YES then add bacon and white toast 😂
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Toast, livermush, and cheese 👍
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Ewwwww. No liver for me! My mom made us eat it as a kid and I hated it! Still won’t eat it to this day.
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I thought we were better friends than this Diane… 🤦♂️
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Hahaha I guess liver draws the line!
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Another yum, yummy, Diane. ð
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Thank you Mitzy! Have a great weekend💕
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Had these a long time ago – my mom wanted to try them and loved them. These look delicious – yum! (P.S. – Saw the movie too.)
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Thanks Linda and yes a wonderful movie!
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Might try it with my tomatoes now at end of season thanks😀
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No better time! You’re welcome Tierney. ❤️
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OH GEEWHIZ!!! I like fried green tomatoes, but I like juicy, ripe, AWESOME, mouthwatering YUMMYLICIOUS, ripe red tomatoes better. 🙂 Every year, it never fails, someone asks me if “I” have had fried green tomatoes. I am 60 and they are usually much younger… They are usually a visitor or someone I haven’t known very long. It always seems as if they want me to pick a few green tomatoes in the middle of the summer. They are NUTS. I don’t pick green tomatoes until an “F” is in the forecast! Well, I am afraid that time is nearer than I want it to be. Thanks for sharing!
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Oh I agree with your entire reply! Yes it must be our age (62) hahaha!
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This looks so delicious, I remember seeing the movie as well, it was great!
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Thanks and a true classic movie!
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I can’t see “Fried Green Tomatoes” without mentally adding “at the Whistle Stop Cafe” to the end! 😀
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Hahaha I hear that!
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Thanks so much for sharing ❤️
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I’ve never heard of this (well, I did thought about the movie when I saw the title of your post) … but never tasted tomatoes prepared this way! But from the comments, it seems I’m missing out big time! Time to go to the store to get some (green) tomatoes then … 🍅🍅
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Yes you must try them at least once. Experiment with your own breading once you figure out if you like them. I’m sure you will come up with a wonderful breading and will cook them in your cast iron pan over the fire. 😉
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You’re absolutely right Diane … when my husband saw this recipe, he immediately said “that should work over the fire” 😄.
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Southern me eats them all summer!
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May I ask how you make yours? I had someone from Alabama tell me I do it all wrong and when I said I would love to know how they made theirs they never replied.
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Some people won’t share! When I make them at home I often broil or air fry to reduce the fat & calories.
I use an old Southern cookbook recipe, but a quick google took me to a Southern Living recipe that sounds like what I do with egg, flour, cornmeal, butter milk and seasoning. They even give a video on how to dredge and in what order.
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Thank you Sarah I will Google and see what I can find. It’s funny because I think the cornmeal was the only thing I didn’t use. I think this person was just one of those people that if they can’t say something nice they should say nothing at all. Lol
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Looks so delicious, great idea for evening snack.👍
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Great idea for a snack, I made it with a meal. Thank you!
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