Oven Fried Green Tomatoes
Oven Fried Green Tomatoes takes a traditional recipe and makes a healthy swap with one ingredient and the method of cooking. This leads to a guilt free way to enjoy this Southern staple.
If you are like me and trying to watch what and HOW you eat, this recipe if for you! I am the queen of healthy swaps lately for my favorite Southern fare. Just like our OKRA FRIES and our CHICKEN SALAD recipes, this one shows you just a few changes can make a big difference.
Not a Southern Creation?
I am about to change what you think you know about this beloved Southern dish. It was NOT invented in the South. It actually can be found all the way back to Jewish immigrants in the Northern United states in the 1800’s. GASP, I know! Read more about this fascinating story in this article by the WV CULINARY TEAM.
How to Make These Oven Baked Fried Green Tomatoes
Now that I have shattered all of your dreams of a rural cafe in northern Alabama and two women inventing this creation, let’s get to why you are really here. LOL!
Ingredients
Here we use some very staple ingredients. The same for full fat fried green tomatoes. Milk, flour, seasonings. What you would normally expect. We just change some things up as well as the method of cooking and that changes the entire recipe!
- 3-4 medium green tomatoes sliced
- ½ cup almond milk
- 1 egg
- ½ cup almond flour
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon smoked paprika
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- ½ teaspoon pink salt
- 1 to 2 tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese
Instructions
We replace frying with cooking in a very hot oven. The ingredients like parmesan cheese also supply that same crunch. You won’t miss a thing.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Fit a sheet pan with a small amount of cooking spray or parchment paper.
Mix almond milk and egg, whipping until combined in a small bowl.
In another bowl, mix almond flour, garlic, paprika, cayenne and salt.
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Slice tomatoes to about ¼ inch thick.
Place tomato slices in egg mixture and remove with a fork. Dredge in dry mixture and set aside on the prepared sheet pan until all are battered
Sprinkle with half of the parmesan cheese and bake for about 10-15 minutes until brown. Carefully remove from oven and turn tomatoes over and sprinkle with the remainder of the parmesan cheese. Return to oven and bake for another 5-10 minutes until done.
Cool and serve.
Tips and Tricks for Delicious and Healthy Green Tomatoes
Yes. Right off of the top of my head, zucchini and yellow squash would be delicious like this.
Red tomatoes are ripe and sometimes soft. This ripeness would not fry well making them soft and wet. The green ones are firm and low on moisture and fry or oven bake very well.
Yes, as long as you have some left over! Simply place the left overs on a sheet pan in a 350 degree oven for about 10 minutes and they will be good as new.
For a more traditional Fried Green Tomato recipe, check out my friend Kathleen’s, PERFECT FRIED GREEN TOMATO recipe.If you make this recipe, be sure and post it to Facebook or Instagram and tag us. We love pictures of food. Also, if you pin this recipe, we would appreciate that when you make it, you use the Made It function in Pinterest too.
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Oven Fried Green Tomatoes
Ingredients
- 3-4 medium green tomatoes sliced
- ½ cup almond milk
- 1 egg
- ½ cup almond flour
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon smoked paprika
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- ½ teaspoon pink salt
- 2 tablespoons parmesan cheese grated
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Fit a sheet pan with a small amount of cooking spray or parchment paper.
- Slice tomatoes to about ¼ inch thick.3-4 medium green tomatoes
- Mix almond milk and egg, whipping until combined in a small bowl.½ cup almond milk, 1 egg
- In another bowl, mix almond flour, garlic, paprika, cayenne and salt.½ cup almond flour, ½ teaspoon garlic powder, ½ teaspoon smoked paprika, ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper, ½ teaspoon pink salt
- Place tomato slices in egg mixture and remove with a fork. Dredge in dry mixture and set aside on the prepared sheet pan until all are battered.
- Sprinkle with half of the parmesan cheese and bake for about 10-15 minutes until brown. Carefully remove from oven and turn tomatoes over and sprinkle with the remainder of the parmesan cheese. Return to oven and bake for another 5-10 minutes until done.2 tablespoons parmesan cheese
- Cool and serve.
Parmesan cheese was not listed in the ingredient list. Don’t like almond flour. Will use AP flour instead
I will get that fixed. Thanks for letting me know. Also know subbing regular flour will alter the nutritional value but will still be just as good!
Can you oven fry frozen sliced tomatoes, do they need to be thawed?
I would thaw them and make sure most of the moisture is gone.
Yummmmy! This is great, thank you! I substituted nutritional yeast for the cheese and used soy rather than almond milk. So much easier than frying on the stove like my grandma used to do, yet similar homey taste!
Delicious, those are fantastic subs!
I love fried green tomatoes, but not all of the grease in traditional recipe.
This new recipe is delicious.
Thank you!
These baked are as good if not better than the fried. I will always bake mine now..
I used so flour instead of almond flour and I also used 2 percent milk instead of almond milk other than those changes I used all the other ingredients and they were delicious
YES! I bet it was so good!