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.
Commonplace salted potato chips work properly, or take a look at some taste concepts within the part titled, “Make it your individual.”
Inexperienced tomatoes: Select unripe tomatoes that may ultimately be crimson, 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 individual backyard. Simply pluck a tomato or two when they’re a very good dimension however not beginning to flip crimson.
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 crimson tomato.
Cornstarch helps to dry them out and aids in browning. Plus, after being coated in cornstarch, they received’t dilute the mayo with their juices.
Vegan mayo: Vegan mayo is used to interchange the usual egg within the breading course of. It’s good at getting crumbs to stay.
Vegenaise is my most well-liked model, however any eggless mayo will work right here. You received’t style it in any respect within the ultimate product.
Seasonings: Dried basil, dried oregano, granulated onion, salt, and pepper.
Oil spray: In the event 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.)
