Sounds delicious!

Oh yes. I love a fried green tomato on my burgers. I also like them on blts with pimento cheese.

I heard about that somewhere & meant to try that when I had green tomatoes! Thanks for the reminder! And a blt with pimento & green tomatoes, sounds yummy. I rarely eat meat, just lost my taste for it mostly, but I do get a craving for bacon or a burger.

I have done a different kind green tomato burgers.

I use GWR (Green When Ripe) tomatoes. They are tomatoes which remain green when they are fully ripe, juicy and sweet..

People are surprised when they thought the tomatoes are tough, sour and not ripe.

dcarch

I'm pretty much a purist when it comes to burgers. Meat, mustard, pickle, onion. Cheese maybe once every three years when I get a hankering for a cheeseburger.

That said, since Ritaweeda has challenged my boundaries, I think a nice gooey slab of fried eggplant or a roasted split green chile would be delicious on a burger, too. Have eaten FGT only once & wasn't particularly impressed with them. But that was a long time ago so I need to try them again.

That sounds awesome, I will have to try green tomatoes, fried or otherwise, on my burgers, once tomato season hits these northern parts!

At the moment my burger of choice is made from grass fed ground meat (if only because I like to think the number of animals in my meal is something that I can count up on no more than the fingers of one hand), add salt, pepper, and possibly sauteed onion, form the patty. Grill (or pan fry if need be). Add cheese, anything tasty that melts. Put on a lettuce wrap (toast, if it is a good flavorful toast - but no buns, too much bread at once for me! And I usually find buns rather tasteless anyway, just me), add mustard, dill pickle slices, onion if it isn't inside the patty already. Very rarely, bacon. Tomato only if the tomato is garden, not supermarket, fresh. Mushrooms are good, but they tend to slide out.

I think the fried green tomatoes would be wonderful. I'd also try the fried eggplant slices! dcharch, I've tried GWR tomatoes, too... they have some fancy heirloom name I forget around here.... excellent!

Will have to try this summer!

I just want to add that I do season the dredge for FGT's quite a bit with salt, pepper, garlic powder and cayenne. I usually just use flour for the dredge, sometimes I use the self rising cornbread mix which has both cornmeal and flour. I don't use a heavy batter them. If I wasn't so lazy I'd try homemade onion rings on it, too but I'm not that fond of frying, FGT's are more than enough effort.

cilantro, I use that same recipe, and haven't found one I like better yet, although for some reason I keeping trying others. Never satisfied, I guess....

I have green tomato slices in the freezer. I don't have burgers planned tomorrow, but I have chicken thighs thawing and fried green tomatoes would be good, I think.

Thanks for the reminder, Rita!

Annie

I quit looking for other recipes, Annie! I just trashed a bunch of other bun recipes that I have tried in the past that were much better than those store bought sawdust buns but not as good as the KA recipe. Must be that enriched dough w/ egg, butter & sugar; it's really just a hot roll recipe. Too sweet for a burger, IMO, if you use the whole 1/4 c. of sugar though.

BUT, if you find another recipe that's better, do do let me know!

I keep meaning to try making the dough a day or two ahead and letting the flavor develop in the refrigerator but never manage to plan ahead.

I've made those buns too, Ci_lantro! I also make Taste of Home's 40-minute buns. Especially good when I'm in a time crunch.

40-minute buns