Fried Green Tomatoes, Tennessee Style

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 35 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 large green tomato, sliced into 6 slices
• 1/2-3/4 cup buttermilk (if no buttermilk, just use same amount of regular milk with 1/2 tablespoon of lemon juice let set fo)
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup yellow cornmeal
• 1/2 cup self-rising flour
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika

Recipe

• 1 in a medium bowl, add tomato slices and coat with buttermilk; chill for 20 minutes.
• 2 while tomatoes are soaking, mix together coating ingredients in another medium size bowl.
• 3 remove tomatoes from buttermilk--do not throw away buttermilk.
• 4 coat each tomato slice in coating mixture; set aside.
• 5 now in remaining buttermilk mixture add egg; beat well.
• 6 return each coated tomato to buttermilk, making sure each side is well coated.
• 7 return to coating mix one more time coating both sides.
• 8 in a medium size skillet over medium high, heat 1/4 cup vegetable oil till hot but not smoking.
• 9 fry on both sides until coating is golden brown.