Recipe: Yummy Fried green tomato pimento cheese BLT

Fried green tomato pimento cheese BLT. A Southern twist on a BLT swapping out the ripe red tomatoes for crispy fried green tomatoes and adding some tasty pimento cheese. Fried green tomatoes are delicious served as appetizers with cool and creamy dipping sauces, topped with pimento cheese as an entree, over a salad for something (a little bit) lighter, or my personal favorite: subbed on sandwiches and burgers where you might usually find sliced red tomatoes. A fried shrimp and fried tomato sandwich with bacon, lettuce, and cheese isn't a BLT with shrimp and cheese, it's a damned fried shrimp and fried tomato sandwich.

I followed the directions EXACTLY and they couldn't have been any better. When I turned them over to cook on the second side, I added fresh Parmesan cheese to the cooked side. Think, fried green tomato benedict, sweet tea, biscuits, grits, pimento cheese…. You can have Fried green tomato pimento cheese BLT using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Fried green tomato pimento cheese BLT

1. Prepare 1 of green tomato.
2. It's 1 of panko bread cumbs.
3. It's 1 of flour.
4. It's 1 of egg.
5. Prepare 1 of salt, pepper, garlic & onion powder.
6. Prepare 1 of prepared pimento cheese.
7. Prepare 1 of bacon.
8. It's 1 of ciabatta roll.

And yes, I ate it ALL. For me, vacations are not only a time to relax and enjoy myself, they're also a time I get some of the best inspiration for this blog so I always make sure to have my handy dandy food. Fried Green Tomatoes and Pimento Cheese are the perfect southern duo. If you wanted to skip the steps of making pimento cheese, you can buy it.

Fried green tomato pimento cheese BLT instructions

1. Slice 1inch slices of green tomato season with salt,pepper, garlic & onion powder.
2. Create a breading station: 1plate for flour, 1plate for panko & 1 bowl for egg wash.
3. Season a plate of flour & a plate of panko bread crumbs the same way as the tomatoes. *tomatoes take a lot of seasoning.
4. Make an egg wash w/ 1 egg splash of water or buttermilk season well.
5. Dip the tomato slices in egg wash-flour-egg wash & then panko shaking off the extra with each step.
6. Fry the breaded slices in a pan of shallow(just enough 2 cover bottom of pan well) cooking oil. After cooking drain on paper bag or paper towels.
7. Crisp up your bacon in oven or microwave figuring about 4 slices per sandwich. After cooking drain on paper bags or towels.
8. Slice open your ciabatta roll & lightly butter the outside then sprinkle lightly w/ garlic powder. Spread the pimento cheese on the interior. Put together then grill sandwich in a pan.
9. After sandwich is browned on both sides & cheese is melted remove from pan. Open sandwich add a few fried tomato slices & your bacon then enjoy!.

House made Pimento cheese, crispy bacon, fried green tomatoes and romaine lettuce. Fried Green Tomato and Bacon Grilled Cheese Recipe. A Southern twist on a BLT swapping out the ripe red tomatoes for crispy fried green tomatoes and adding some tasty pimento cheese. Fried Green Tomato and Pimento Cheese Sandwich. The pimento cheese topping really took them up another notch!