Potato chip crumbs or panko: You’ve a selection between making crumbs from potato chips within the meals processor, or utilizing Japanese-style panko breadcrumbs.
Customary salted potato chips work effectively, or take a look at some taste concepts within the part titled, “Make it your personal.”
Inexperienced tomatoes: Select unripe tomatoes that will finally be purple, however haven’t gained their pinkish hue but. Don’t use inexperienced heirloom tomatoes, like zebra tomatoes.
Search for inexperienced tomatoes at your farmers market, CSA, or in your personal backyard. Simply pluck a tomato or two when they’re a very good dimension however not beginning to flip purple.
Cornstarch: For the optimum frying expertise, it helps if issues are dry. Inexperienced tomatoes range of their quantity of moisture. Some are fairly dry inside whereas others are on their solution to changing into a ripe purple tomato.
Cornstarch helps to dry them out and aids in browning. Plus, after being coated in cornstarch, they gained’t dilute the mayo with their juices.
Vegan mayo: Vegan mayo is used to switch the usual egg within the breading course of. It’s sensible at getting crumbs to stay.
Vegenaise is my most well-liked model, however any eggless mayo will work right here. You gained’t style it in any respect within the remaining product.
Seasonings: Dried basil, dried oregano, granulated onion, salt, and pepper.
Oil spray: In case you’re utilizing potato chip crumbs for the breading, omit the oil. The potato chips have sufficient oil already. Nevertheless, should you’re utilizing panko breadcrumbs, I like to recommend spraying the breaded inexperienced tomatoes with oil spray earlier than air frying, or fry in oil in a skillet. (Avocado oil is my choice.)
