[Wild Willow]

Hiya,

Does anyone have any uses for green tomatoes apart from chutney?  Can you add them to tomato sauce (spaghetti sauce) or chilli, etc.?  Looking for ideas as I don't like chutney...thank you.

Char 

[Beetroot Queen]

I am sure i did read somewhere that you can do a jelly with toms not sure it would work with green though. No idea where i read it either.

You could just leave them to slowly ripen all mine have and they were green as green

[Swing Swang]

Green tomatoes (with a little lemon to aid setting) make an excellent jam which sets really easily - the pips can be left in or the pulp passed through a sieve as desired. Plenty of recipes on the web (try also 'doce de tomate' and be prepared to use the translate key - my favourite is to use the lemon peel as a lemon shred rather than using the juice only, which is not traditional but tastes great.

The Portuguese make two versions - red and green - take your pick. The green tomato pulp can also be used to make other jams go further (gooseberry:green tomato in 60:40 ratio works well). The Portuguese will use the green version much as creme patissiere is used in pastries so it is quite versatile.

SS

[tosca100]

We've just pulled our plants and put the green ones in the cellar on apple trays, but now the air is fresher after a couple of showers it feels warmer down there than it did. We have plenty preserved in lots of ways but felt we couldn't just throw the sound ones out.

I have made some chutney, but I know we are unlikely to eat it.

[New shoot]

Chutney is useful as an ingredient for curries and tagines, so even if you don't enjoy eating it straight, it could be worth making some for that.  A big pot of either can take half a jar easily.  It makes the sauce nice and thick and adds sweet, tangy and spicy notes to the dish 

I have lots of green fruit sitting on the windowsill.  As BQ says, they mostly all do ripen in the end 

[goodtogrow]

Any sign of blight on them?  If not, recycle them in your compost heap!  We don't have to eat everything we produce, do we???  I've got stunted cabbage slowly cooking in my heap as we speak!

Unwanted produce is a resource!  It's as good as cash! 

[Mrs Bee]

Try green fried tomatoes as a vegetable. Lots of recipes on the internet.

If you like curries and tagines use the green tomatoes cut in quarters as another vegetable.

Do you like piccalilli? If so you can use them in piccalilli. I always make the house piccalilli with the green tomatoes; to special to add to the selling piccalilli.

You can also add them to mixed pickles, if you like pickles rather than chutneys.

Put a ripe banana in with the green tomatoes which wil help them to ripen.

[J_B]

go get an old cardboard fruit tray ...cover the green tomatoes with newspaper and keep in cool dry are, lipping a ripening banana, the banana produces ethanol which ripens most fruit. worked a treat for me...

[snowdrops]

Fried green tomatoes as of The Whistle Stop cafe

[Godhelm]

Made this Green Tomato Soup this evening:
http://www.food.com/recipe/green-tomato-soup-141324

 Made a double quantity. Used leeks instead of scallions. Added a tin of Butter Beans for added protein, and blitzed with a hand blender once cooked. Delicious - bright, citrusy flavour, with the smokiness of the bacon in the background. Recommended!

[Mum2mj]

Fried green tomatoes as of The Whistle Stop cafe

Good film that 

[Trillium]

Apparently there's a green tomato mincemeat recipe out there somewhere. Not tried it myself as not keen on mincemeat.

[Auntiemogs]

Fried green tomatoes as of The Whistle Stop cafe

Good film that 

Ditto! 

You could always make the dreaded chutney and give it away as festival prezzies? 

[Ema]

mine do colour up a bit on the window sill, they dont taste quite the same but were nice grilled with cooked breakfast last weekend

[marcofez]

Fried green tomatoes with peppers, courgettes, onions mixed with on egg. Delicious