Side Dishes Recipes - Fried Green Tomatoes with Béchamel Sauce Recipe

Ingredients

• 6 soft green tomatoes (already showing traces of orange)

• 3 eggs

• 50 g/2 oz (4 tablespoons)

• clarified butter

• 1-2 cups breadcrumbs

• salt

• pepper

• 65 g/2 1/2 oz (5 tablespoons) butter

• 6 tablespoons flour

• 500 ml/17 fl oz (2 1/4 cups) milk nutmeg

• Tabasco 

• 1 egg yolk

Serves 4

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Method:

1. Slice the green tomatoes. Beat the eggs. Preheat the oven to its lowest setting, 80C (175F). Heat the clarified butter in a large saucepan.

2. Dip the tomato slices first in the beaten eggs, then in the breadcrumbs. On a medium heat, carefully fry the breaded tomato slices a few at a time until golden brown.

3. Season with salt and pepper, arrange on a baking sheet lined with kitchen paper and put in the oven to keep warm.

4. For the sauce: melt the butter in a saucepan and add flour. Stir vigorously with a whisk and slowly add the milk while stirring. Season with salt, pepper, nutmeg and Tabasco. Remove the saucepan from the heat and when it is no longer boiling, stir the egg yolks into the sauce.

5.  Put the tomatoes on individual plates and serve the hot sauce separately.

Note: Green tomatoes do not only playa part in the movie of the same name, they also stand out in this mouth-watering dish, served with a tasty white sauce.