Green Tomatoes

[Angry Janice]

Is there a difference between green tomatoes and ordinary tomatoes that haven't ripened yet? I quite fancy making a green tomato chutney and having a big slice of fried green tomato but I'm not sure if I need to buy or grow a specific green variety of tomato?

Thanks.

[binley100]

well there are varieties of toms that are green but generally recipes for green toms are to use up those that don't ripen

[VirginVegGrower]

Agree with Binley, green tomatoes are just green (unripened) tomatoes. I made GTC last year - prepare to have the aromas abound your kitchen for a few days after!

[Aberdeenplotter]

Janice, if you do make the chutney, be prepared to be delighted with the end result. Don't be like me last year though and quadruple up the recipe and expect to make four times the amount in the same timescale. it takes four times as long . I was totally disillusioned with the stirring by the time mine was made. Having said that though, it was (still is) delish and I still have some unopened in the larder

[Two_Sheds]

Stirring? You don't need to do it all the time, just now and again. I leave my chutney on the slow bubble for hours, then leave it off overnight, then on for another few hours, just stirring every half hour or so

[Flummery]

True green tomatoes ( like Green Zebra) tend to ripen a bit yellow anyway.

[Jono]

I'd definitely recommend making green tomato chutney. I've used up my unripe ones doing this for the last couple of years, and its a real treat.

I've still got some of last September's batch left, delicious it is.

I normally use the River Cottage recipes.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Stirring? You don't need to do it all the time, just now and again. I leave my chutney on the slow bubble for hours, then leave it off overnight, then on for another few hours, just stirring every half hour or so

Now you tell me.

[binley100]

Now you tell me.

and there's me thinking you knew all your onions..........

[Glutton4...]

Hmmmmmm Green Tomato Chutney! *dribbles

My Nan used to make this when I was a kid - deeeeeeelish!

[VirginVegGrower]

With Davidstow Cheddar Extra Mature in fresh crusty bed - yum yum!

I too cook long and slow on the bubble in my Le Creuset, which is perfect for this kind of thing. About four hours if I remember correctly.

[zazen999]

Cheddar Extra Mature in fresh crusty bed - yum yum!

Coffee>Screen.

[Florence Fennel]

[QUOTE=VirginVegGrower;880156]Extra Mature in fresh crusty bed - yum yum!

Nope, I can't stand a crusty bed. Wipe your screen Zaz!

[VirginVegGrower]

Damn the iPhone and it's predictive text. I don't like crusty beds either but I do like crusty BREAD!
sorry Zaz - hope your screen dried ;-)

[VirginVegGrower]

As all women can attest to, I sometimes have a crusty old man in mine!