A delicious way to use unripened green tomatoes, these keto fried green tomatoes taste just like the classic southern recipe with their delightfully crunchy coating.

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I love backyard gardening. This year my garden is doing well and not only am I up to my ears in fresh zucchini but my tomato plants are exploding with fruit. Unfortunately, some late spring storms threatened to damage my plants. I picked the largest of the green tomatoes in an effort to prevent damage.
What does one do with a bowl of unripened tomatoes" One makes homemade green tomato salsa verde (link when recipe is live), and lots of fried green tomatoes!
Fried Green Tomatoes- A Southern Tradition
Fried green tomatoes are a Southern staple and tradition. Picking green tomatoes helps encourage remaining fruits on the vine to grow bigger. But green tomatoes are sour and very hard. Battering or breading them in cornmeal and deep frying them in bacon grease makes them delicious.
Fun fact: while everyone thinks of fried green tomatoes as a homestyle southern recipe, according to Bon Appetite, the first mentions of fried green tomatoes were actually in cookbooks well north of the Mason Dixon line. They were first mentioned by cookbooks from Ohio and New York. They didn?t become the southern tradition until after the popular 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes turned them into the iconic food they are t...