Fried Green Tomatoes

I went grocery shopping in France with a friend today. The fruit and vegetable section was the first part we went through. They had different coloured varieties of tomatoes on display. My friend was intrigued by the green zebra tomatoes.

Since that old movie from the South of the US "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" she wanted to try that recipe.
I told her, that the recipe calls for unripe tomatoes, that's why green.

But we bought some anyhow. We wanted to try to fry these. They were a bit on the soft and ripe side.

Recipe for 4 tomatoes:
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 large free range egg
Spicy seasoning
Salt and pepper
Oil for frying

Prepare a 3 bowl station for panning.
Mix the buttermilk with the egg and put that in one bowl.
1/4 cup of flour in one bowl.
1/4 cup of flour and the cornmeal in the third bowl. Season quite well.
Cut the tomatoes in 1/2 inch slices and season with salt.
Put them through flour, egg mix and cornmeal mix.
Heat up the oil to 180 C or 365 F.
Fry for 2 to 3 min on each side. Rest on kitchen paper.
Serve either with sweet chili sauce or Sriracha.