Green Tomatoes

[stackmonkey]

Brief background..
I don't normally like tomatoes, but a friend's parents gave me some spare tomato plants earlier this year as a favour swap. I figured that garden grown stuff normally tastes better than supermarket bought, so why not?

I got a fair number of tomatoes, but they never ripened so last week picked all I could find and made some green tomato chutney, which was very nice.
Today I took down the plant supports and the plants before frost killed them and found a few more fruits, but not enough to make more chutney.
a small amount of hunting found a recipe for fried green tomatoes (as per your whistle stop cafe..) and....

they're really nice!
I want some more!

Any one got some spare green tomatoes?

[Mobile Chicane]

I cleared out the greenhouse today.

Lots of green tomatoes, but they're tiddlers (late season unripe Sungold).

I'd like to try the 'fried green' recipe - what is it?

[Simpo Two]

Looks like I'll be having some green tomatos too - but don't want chutney.

Can you pick them green and ripen them inddors, eg airing cupboard or in a poly bag with a banana etc?

[muppetdave]

Simpo Two said:

Looks like I'll be having some green tomatos too - but don't want chutney.

Can you pick them green and ripen them inddors, eg airing cupboard or in a poly bag with a banana etc?

Apparently yes!

[simonej]

Simpo Two said:

Can you pick them green and ripen them inddors, eg airing cupboard or in a poly bag with a banana etc?

I tried that last year, think I was advised to use a large shoe box lined with kitchen roll with a banana in and the tomatoes placed around it. Some ripened OK but some didn't - it was a bit hit and miss to be honest.

[stackmonkey]

Mobile Chicane said:

I cleared out the greenhouse today.

Lots of green tomatoes, but they're tiddlers (late season unripe Sungold).

I'd like to try the 'fried green' recipe - what is it?

Most of the ones I ad were fairly small.

Thickly slice, season with salt and pepper, coat with flour (or breadcrumbs etc) then shallow fry til 'browned.

[tontoro]

Simpo Two said:

Looks like I'll be having some green tomatos too - but don't want chutney.

Can you pick them green and ripen them inddors, eg airing cupboard or in a poly bag with a banana etc?

they will go red, but they won't taste very good

[Vron]

I've just made 4 jars of chutney with a load of green toms and its turned out very nice - nigel slater's recipe.



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