Healthy Christmas canapes recipe for 4 people, takes only 15 mins; recipe has plain flour, polenta, egg, tomato, vegetable oil, tomato, spring onion, mint, green chilli and lime juice.
Fried green tomatoes with ripe tomato salsa
Course: Healthy Christmas canapés
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
20 mins
Ingredients
- Vegetable Oil: vegetable oil, for frying
- Tomato: 4 large green tomatoes, about 500g/1lb 2oz, sliced 1cm thick
- Spring Onion: 2 spring onions, finely chopped
- Egg: 2 eggs
- Lime Juice: 2 tbsp lime juice
- Mint: handful mint leaves, finely chopped
- Plain Flour: 4 tbsp plain flour
- Polenta: 200g polenta
- Green Chilli: 1 green chilli, deseeded, finely chopped
Directions
- Sprinkle the flour over a plate. Place polenta into a medium bowl, season and mix well. Place eggs in a small bowl and beat. Lightly coat a green tomato slice first in the flour, dusting off any excess, dip in the egg, then coat in polenta. Repeat with remaining slices.
- Heat a shallow pool of oil in a large frying pan. Fry the coated tomatoes in batches until golden and crisp on both sides, turning them over with a fish slice. As they are done, drain well on kitchen paper and keep warm in a low oven while you fry remaining batches.
- To make the salsa, mix all the ingredients together in a small bowl, then season with salt and pepper. Serve the fried green tomatoes hot, with the salsa spooned over.
