Q: My local grocery store has yellow tomatoes. What is the best thing to do with them?
- Erin
Ed: We just love yellow tomatoes sliced up on a plate, or served in a simple green salad. They always seem to be a bit sweeter and tangier than deep red tomatoes.
Readers, how do you like to eat yellow tomatoes?
Related: What To Do With Green Tomatoes
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Comments (12)
Whatever you do with any other tomato! I like the yellow ones because they are less acidic than the red and I can eat more without setting off my acid reflux.
I just made a yellow tomato soup that was fantastic http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Yellow-Tomato-Soup-104932
I think the yellow ones should be left for someone else or composted. They are just too bland and mild. Give me a nice red tomato with a kick of acid.
i just made a super tasty salsa with a yellow tomato to go on top of corn pancakes.
http://eatmakeread.com/2009/07/21/spicy-corn-cakes-with-fresh-salsa/
Eat them with mozzarella and basil of course! Drizzle with a little olive oil, salt and pepper and you have a very summery caprese!
On toast with mayo, salt and pepper. Mmmm, heavenly.
I love the yellow ones in salad. The ones I get tend to be firmer and less watery than regular red tomatoes, so they hold their shape better. Ditto for on top of pizza.
I like to use them along with the red, green, and orange ones to make this salad:
http://dicedtomato.blogspot.com/2009/07/heirloom-tomatoes-with-deconstructed.html
Or, make Heirloom tomato sauce (still, I like to use several different colors if possible). Makes enough for 2-3 people.
Over medium high heat in a saute pan, I saute up two cloves of minced garlic in some olive oil and then add about 8-10 medium tomatoes diced into large-ish chunks add some salt and allow to cook until the tomatoes "give" and become sauce-y, stirring frequently. Then, in the final seconds of cooking, add some basil (chiffonade) and enjoy on your favorite pasta!
Sometimes I'll even saute up a zucchini (small dice) before I add the garlic and then continue from there. Or, I'll add a cup or so of chopped spinach/chard/kale in with the basil and cook just until it wilts.
SO pretty cut up into hunks with avocado, cucumber, red onion and some romaine. Toss it all in a sherry vinaigrette.
I got this particular salad recipe from Wilson's Farm cooking class in Lexington, MA. It's so summery and delicious.
The vin:
sherry vinegar
juice of half a lime
olive oil
salt
pepper
pinch of sugar (if you want to sweeten it)
Just use one part vinegar to two parts oil. Shake it all up in a jar. It's my current standby because I'm really sick of making balsalmic all the time.
In a watermelon salad. They taste great together and the yellow gives it an added color.
sliced and sprinkled with salt!
I second desireeg- delicious sliced thin sprinkled with salt, olive oil, basil on toast. With a glass of prosecco on the side.