What To Do With Green Tomatoes

Faith Durand
Faith DurandSVP of Content
Faith is the SVP of Content at Apartment Therapy Media and former Editor-in-Chief of The Kitchn. She is the author of three cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-winning The Kitchn Cookbook. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband and two daughters.
Follow
Kathryn Hill
Kathryn Hill
updated Sep 22, 2023
pinterest
comments
We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing.
Fried green tomatoes, served with Remoulade sauce
Credit: Joe Lingeman/Kitchn; Food Stylist: CC Buckley/Kitchn

Green tomatoes — not to be confused with tomatillos — are simply regular tomatoes that haven’t ripened to redness, yet. Tomatoes can keep producing fruit well into fall, but they need temperatures of 75 degrees or more in order to reach full growth and optimum ripeness. Therefore, most tomatoes that start growing in the fall stay small and green. Don’t throw them out, though.

The good news is that green tomatoes are still edible, delicious, and good for so many things! Here are our three favorites.

Green Tomato Recipes

1 / 3
Fried Green Tomatoes
The best (and tastiest!) way to make classic Southern fried green tomatoes.
Go to Recipe
2 / 3
Green Tomato Pie Recipe
It's about time to think of ripe green tomatoes as dessert fruit. They are tart and firm and take on flavors really well.
Go to Recipe
3 / 3
Fried Green Tomatoes with Crab Salad Recipe
Fried Green Tomatoes, crab salad, hot butter sauce. Enough said.
Go to Recipe

Do you ever cook with green tomatoes? Do you have any favorite uses for them?

Filed in:
Ingredient
Recipe Roundup
Tomatoes
Vegetables