What’s the Difference Between Green Tomatoes and Tomatillos?


Tomatillos and green tomatoes come from entirely different plants. Each fruit has its own unique properties in the kitchen. The easiest way to tell them apart is to note that when a tomatillo is ripe, it remains a small, green fruit, and it grows inside a papery husk called a calyx. On the other hand, a green tomato is the unripe fruit of any variety of tomato plant. The fruit does not grown inside a papery husk, and it can be large or small and picked at any time throughout the summer or fall.
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