Taste the balance taste of the sweet and acid in the green tomato pie and you will never know when you can stop eating. This pie may not be as famous as the apple pie, but it is just amazingly tasty. It may take a few tries for the first timers but surely it is worth the efforts. This is among the simplest recipe of green tomato pie that is suitable for the beginners.
If you do not want all the trouble with the pie crust, then you can simply purchase ready pie crust. But of ourse it would not be as rewarding as creating everthing from scrap. In this pie, the tomato is more to a fruit then vegetables. After all, here the tomato is used as a desert ingredients that are sweet instead of those savory meals that become either the appetizer or the main course. Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
0.5 teaspoon of cinnamon
0.75 cup of sugar
0.125 teaspoon of nutmeg
0.25 teaspoon of salt
0.25 teaspoon of pepper
3 tablespoons of quick cooking tapioca
1 lemon zest
2 pounds of green tomatoes, cut into 0.25 inch thick slices
0.5 cup of golden raisings
2 tablespoon of lemon juice
4 tablespoon of butter
Cooking instructions:
Mix cinnamon, sugar, nutmeg, salt, pepper, quick cooking tapioca and lemon zest together.
Dot the sliced tomatoes in the sugar mixture
Arrange the tomatoes on the pie shell and then add the golden raisins as the pie is being layered.
Drizzle with lemon juice and dot with butter.
For the Piecrust:
Pulse 0.25 cup of sugar, 3.5 cups of flour, and a teaspoon of salt in the food processor.
Add a diced stick cold butter and then pulse again three times (can be more or less than three times. Stop only when you see the mixture will already resembles coarse meal).
Add a tablespoon of cider or white vinegar.
Pour in 0.3 cup of ice water gradually
Pulse again for about four times or until everything is evenly combined.
Turn out to a clean surface and the press the dough without having to overwork yourself.
Wrap in plastic wrap and then press it into an inch thick of disks.
Put in the refrigerator for about an hour before you can arrange the tomatoes on top of it. Othewise it will be too hot.
