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Anyone know what to do with 20 lbs of green tomatoes? I guess we can still broil them and turn them into green salsa. We're supposed to get a freeze overnight soon, and so furiously picked the unripe fruit. But now I'm looking at this pile thinking, this is nuts.

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Pickle some of them. Pickled tomatoes are an undiscovered country.

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My sister did this and it worked beautifully. farmersalmanac.com/ripen-green…

4 Ways To Ripen Green Tomatoes Indoors - Farmers' Almanac

You can coax the ripening process from green to red tomatoes indoors. Tomatoes actually need warmth and not sun to ripen. Learn more. Read on.
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Great move! You have many choices:

1. (my favorite): put them all in a paper bag, and they will ripen over the next few months! FRESH TOMATOES in winter!

2. Fried green tomatoes... batter with flour and egg, fry.

3. Pickled tomatoes. Okay, but not my favorite.

#tomatoes

#tomatoes

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Not a fan of pickled green tomatoes? Then green tomato chutney for the win.
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found this one on the web. May have to get some winter store (unripe) tomatos to try it out: lovelygreens.com/spicy-green-t…

I looked at several authentic South Indian recipes, and recognized they're too complex for a beginner (in Indian cooking).


Easy Green Tomato Chutney Recipe • Lovely Greens

Easy green tomato chutney recipe with green tomatoes, onions, & spices. A delicious condiment that pairs well with cheese & cured meat
Tanya Anderson (Lovely Greens)
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You could check for premade spice mix. This is what we do for green pepper pickle.

(Our mix comes from India through in-laws, and for connoisseurs it is apparently superior to what you can get locally, but for non natives like me the us available spice mixes are excellent, I mean they kind of have to be since those shops are selling to ppl who know, and they wouldn’t stock it if it didn’t sell)

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Like I seriously doubt Patel Bros or whoever is wasting valuable space with a sub-par product that only non-Indians would buy. I think the issue is that there are regional tastes (like Carolina versus Texas bbq, but think India and all the various cultures and languages there’s a lot more options than US bbq) Patel bros stocks the most popular few. So if you like karnataka spice mixes, you have to make it at home or get it from India.
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@MCDuncanLab @claralistensprechen5th @ai6yr It looks like the american/british version are more like a sweet&sour relish, vs an indian spiced chutney. If someone handed me that, and didn't qualify it as British chutney, I'd have been massively disappointed.The recipe looks tasty, I just quibble calling it chutney, but then again, the british colonized India. :blobcatshrug:

But even with premixed spice packets, doing indian spices right is a lot of work for a beginner. :kyuuchan_eat:

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I make green tomato chutney most years. My version calls for apples, which is great if you've got a glut of them, too.

1lb onions, chopped small
1lb green tomatoes, chopped small
1lb 8oz cooking apples, peeled, cored and chopped small
8oz sultanas
1lb 8 oz sugar
1 pint vinegar
1/2 tablesp salt

All in a big pan, then bubble & stir until it's thick and brown.

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Picking the vine/branch they're on seems to help with the indoor ripening as well. For future reference 😁
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The green tomatoes will turn red. Give them time. They won't be as sweet but they will be just like all the commercial tomatoes that are picked green and then shipped 1000 miles in boxes.

Source: we do this every year.

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My sister said she did make tomato kombucha once, but will never do so again!
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sometimes they can still turn red after they are picked. Maybe depends on the kind of tomatoes and how ripe they were
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We always wait for them to turn red. We brought them all in a couple of weeks ago and will have ripe red tomatoes for at least 2 or 3 more weeks.
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@Brendan one year we put a bunch in a bag and they indeed ripened but not until we'd checked the bag already like 20x. on the 21st check they were all ripe and most were mushy. it was so annoying.
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That's likely because they were on top of each other in the bag. None should be atop another tomato.
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We just leave them out on the counter. It worked when we lived in LA and it works in Colorado. My wife ends up making some sauce which she freezes when too many ripen at once.

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I picked my green tomatoes in mid-October and put them in two different paper bags (lots of tomatoes).

They've been ripening every few days over the past few weeks.

Pickling tomatoes are another option.

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Maybe this? Fried green tomatoes are a classic Southern American dish featuring firm, unripe green tomatoes that are sliced, coated with seasoned breading, and fried until golden and crispy on the outside, while tender and juicy on the inside.

butterbeready.com/fried-green-…

Sounds weird tastes terrific 💡 ✅ 😋

#greenTomato #recipes #foodie #cookin #cuisine


Southern Fried Green Tomatoes - Butter Be Ready

Fried Green Tomatoes, golden and crispy on the outside yet juicy and tender on the inside. Serve as a cozy snack or in a classic BLT sammie.
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I just had this problem in miniature (nowhere near 20 lbs). Green tomato chutney is delicious!

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Jam / marmelade. Can do different ones: will lemon, with lemon + vanilla, with cardamom, with cinnamon...
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i'm sure you could go all 1970s and make green tomato wine then in a few months distill it into green tomato brandy
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half-dry in the oven, put into clean jar freshly rinsed with boiling water, fill up with olive oil, store airtight and cool.

Just make sure you dry at 70C or higher to kill microbes.

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maybe watching (again) Fried Green Tomatoes movie ? 😉
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I love making bread and butter pickled green tomatoes. Usually follow this recipe for the brine/spice blend, but to prevent them from getting mushy, I don’t boil or process them. Make sure they’re not even a little bit ripe (no blushes!) tasteofsouthern.com/bread-and-…

Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe – Taste Of Southern

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Loosely pack them in a paper bag separated by newsprint or other paper... They'll ripen inside... I've done that in the past with Romas and Cherry tomatoes and it worked well. Check on them for any that might go off...
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@VeloBusDriver I've found that the paper bag technique definitely makes them red eventually, but by then they have lost a lot of flavor or are kind of mushy.
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@VeloBusDriver I just did it and my tomatos aren't mushy at all. There are the 'beefsteak' variety.
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Ah... I've only attempted with Romas which are pretty flavorless in the store anyway. And those I turn into sauce... 👍
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I'll second pickling them - my partner's work grows tomatoes & had a load of green ones recently - she had fun pickling them and taking the many jars back into work!
Edit: I misremembered - not pickled; was turned into chutney.
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People do can them. That lets you use them when you are ready with not much work right now, assuming you have a pot big enough for a water bath. Ideally, a pressure cooker.
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Pickle them! Make a brine that's 5-6% salt by weight (so like 50-60g per liter of water) and put it in a clean jar with the tomatoes, some garlic, a chili pepper, a bay leaf, and some oregano. Seal the jar with a clean towel and a rubber band. Let it sit for 2 weeks or so and enjoy! I'm doing the same with my wife's sungold tomatoes.
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We used some of our last ones recently for some delicious fried green tomatoes.
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I love this recipe splendidtable.org/story/1996/1…

Italian Farmhouse Green Tomato Pickle

Snappy, spicy, and a perfect lift for so many dishes, this seasoning found in the city of Lecce, in southern Italy's Apulia region, is an old way of putting up the last (or first) of the tomato harvest.
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harvest seeds from one or two for next season. other than that....fried green tomatoes?
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here’s a list of 25 recipes for ‘em. ruralsprout.com/green-tomatoes…

25 Tasty Ways to Use Up All Those Green Tomatoes

Sure, fried green tomatoes are great, but what do you make when you've got a ton of green tomatoes to use up? We've got some ideas for you.
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Put them in paper sacks with ripe bananas and very ripe apples. The ethelene gas emitted by the ripe bananas and apples will ripen them up. Took about a week for my greenies to go red. Roll the top of the sack down and use binder clips to keep it closed.
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pickle them! If you’re really experimental, ferment a jar or two…
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green tomato chutney, green tomato jam. lots of recipes for both on the net.

green tomato pickles are nice too.

creativecanning.com/ is a good starting place for ideas.


Home - Creative Canning

Welcome to Creative Canning! Learn how to create your own safe canning recipes!
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I second @ai6yr on fried green tomatoes, but my recipe is a little different - I mix dry cornmeal with a little salt, pepper, cayenne, and cumin, dip slices of green tomato in the mixture, and fry them.
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@dragonfrog Ah yes, salt and pepper for sure! (cayenne and cumin sounds good!)
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I bring them inside and lay them on a table as close as I can to a sunny window. Almost all of them ripen. Some get a bit wrinkly so I chop them up and freeze them or eat them. (Shakshuka, fresh salsa, etc)
But I've also made a mock apple pie or mock apple crisp. (Easy to google a recipe) Fooled my "expert tomato growing neighbour" too!

Edit to add photo and remark on how long and fun this entire thread became.

Two tables in my living room with ripening tomatoes and some green- but- turning- orange peppers. A round table has a beige tablecloth and dozens of green, yellow and red tomatoes. A rectangular table has a blue tablecloth on it and the left side is littered with cherry tomatoes in red, orange and green. Also there's some mostly still green peppers at the right end.
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I ate a fancy dinner with confit tomatoes in it recently, and they were really good. Not sure if that's possible to do if they're big.
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Put them in a card box and wait for a few days. They are ripening.
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They can be cooked like other tart fruits such as pie cherries, so make your favorites, eg, pie, crisp, crumble, brown betty, compote, stewed fruit, jam, jelly, etc

Eg tasteofhome.com/recipes/green-…
(Haven't made that one, can't vouch for it)


Green Tomato Pie

Don't be sad that tomato season is over—be happy that it's time for green tomato pie! Made with sliced green tomatoes scented with sugar and cinnamon, then baked in a flaky crust, it's a sweet-savory dessert not to miss.
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green tomato pickle? I don't have a recipe, but some of my family used to make that a lot. It is quite good.
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just popping in to clarify that, if by "green salsa" you mean the kind from Mexican food, that's not made with unripe tomatoes, it's made from a different kind of tomato that never turns red.
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Put the unripe green tomatoes in a bag with a ripe banana and seal it and room temperate a few days. The banana will saturate the bag with ethylene gas (ripening gas) and start the ripening process in the tomatoes that turn the fibers into sugars, just like what happened with the banana.
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