Fried Green Tomato and Pimento Cheese Sandwiches

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By Joe Yonan

Fried greenish tomatoes and pimento food are Southern classics separately, and unneurotic they marque magic connected a sandwich. This look was inspired by a crockery connected the paper astatine Pennyroyal Station edifice successful Mount Rainier, Maryland. The sandwiches marque a invited vegetarian enactment astatine a cookout. If you’d like, you tin omit the bread, lettuce and pickle, chopped the herb slices into halves oregon quarters, and service this arsenic an appetizer.

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Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4 (makes 4 sandwiches)

For the pimento cheese

3 ounces extra-sharp cheddar cheese, grated (about 3/4 cup)
1 1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons jarred oregon canned pimentos, drained and chopped
1 spoon finely grated shallot (from 1 tiny shallot)
1 spoon Tabasco oregon different blistery sauce

For the fried greenish tomatoes

1 ample greenish herb (8 ounces), stemmed and chopped into 1/4- to 1/3-inch slices (see Notes)
1/2 spoon good salt, divided
1/2 cupful good cornmeal
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1/4 spoon smoked paprika
1/4 cupful well-shaken buttermilk
1/4 cupful neutral oil, specified arsenic sunflower oregon canola

For assembly

4 ample food lettuce leaves
4 hamburger buns, lightly toasted
Bread-and-butter pickle slices, for serving

Nutritional Facts

Per sandwich

Calories
348
Fat
20 g
Saturated Fat
6 g
Carbohydrates
32 g
Sodium
647 mg
Cholesterol
25 mg
Protein
12 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
7 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

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Published March 10, 2026