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Whether frost is just around the corner or it is early in the season and tomatoes haven't ripened yet, green tomatoes, that's right: unripe tomatoes, can actually be used to make a wide variety of foods and preserved for later use. There's more to a green tomato recipe than just "fried green tomatoes"!
First, if you want to bring your green tomatoes indoors before a freeze in the Fall, and ripen them, see:
Freezing green tomatoes is easy. They'll be too soggy for use in a salad, BUT you can use them later to make fried green tomatoes:
Here are links to canning/preserving and fresh use recipes for green tomatoes:
The USDA points out: Do not can tomatoes from dead or frost-killed vines. Green tomatoes are more acidic than ripened fruit and can be canned safely in place of ripe tomatoes.
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