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yvonnea6313 · ‎29-09-2013

I have a work colleague who has grown tomatoes for the very first time this year. Now after a bumper crop and lots of ripe tomatoes, he has an abundance of green tomatoes which he doesn't think will ripen in this cooling weather.

He's looking for recipes to use them in, unfortunately he isn't a lover of chutneys, relishes etc, so I'm stumped as to how he can use them.

Do any of you have any uses/recipes for green tomatoes that are not chutney's / relishes etc.

Thanks for your help.

rhubarbcity · ‎29-09-2013

Someone told me you can make a pie with green tomatoes, just add sugar & pinch cinnamon, think there are plenty of recipes around

fishpieface · ‎29-09-2013

Yes, green tomato chutney, very nice it is too. I'll try and find the recipe.

I have zillions of teeny little yellow tomatoes which next door gave me.

They taste lovely but I can't possibly eat them all so I might make chutney

with some.

fluffypenquin · ‎30-09-2013

When we have a glut of green tomatoes we just cut them off the plants (leaving them still attached to some of the vine) and spread them out on trays and put them on a sunny windowsill and they will ripen.

yvonnea6313 · ‎30-09-2013

never thought of leaving them on a portion of vine to ripen, will let him know thanks x

ed_blackadder_1 · ‎30-09-2013

If you put a ripe banana with them that will help to rippen them if thee is no sun

captainbovine · ‎30-09-2013

I think you can put them in a brown paper bag with an apple too and they ripen.

what about those fried green tomatoes they did in the film. They floured, egg dipped them and rolled them in cornmeal and fried them. May be nice if you love tomatoes....which I don't

vamo48 · ‎30-09-2013

We've got ours ripening on trays around the kitchen - now running out of space! We don't leave them attached to their vine, it's not necessary. If you don't want to ripen them, they can be fried and served on toast, in fact anything you can cook with red tomatoes you can cook with green. A little sugar can be added if they are too acidic.

chickengrandma-2008 · ‎30-09-2013

We've got loads of big green tomatoes. We put some in a bag with a very ripe banana and a normal yellow ripe banana. After about a week the really ripe banana had gone mouldy and the tomatoes were as green as ever!