Fried Green Tomatoes
This recipe opens my Literary Recipes collection, where I will make dishes cooked by characters in books. I am starting with something simple: fried green tomatoes. I was not sure how they would turn out, but with a few unripe tomatoes still left, I decided to try them before having to wait for next year's harvest.
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This dish may not be to everyone's taste. The tomatoes remind me of fried zucchini slices, only tarter, and do not have a particularly distinctive flavor. I liked them much better once they had cooled.
I cut the tomatoes into slices. Mixed flour with breadcrumbs. I also added salt and pepper there.
I coated half the tomato slices in the flour mixture and put them in hot oil. The coating did not stick very well, so I dipped the remaining slices in beaten egg before coating them and adding them to the pan.
The tomatoes are fried for about 4 minutes on each side. When a golden brown crust appears, I turn them over. I served them hot with tomato sauce and mayonnaise.