Fried Green Tomatoes, Tennessee Style - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 large green tomato, sliced into 6 slices
1/2 - 3/4 cup buttermilk (if no buttermilk, just use same amount of regular milk with 1/2 tablespoon of lemon juice let set fo)
1 egg
Coating Mix
1/3 cup yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup self-rising flour
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
1/2 teaspoon paprika

Preparation

In a medium bowl, add tomato slices and coat with buttermilk; chill for 20 minutes.
While tomatoes are soaking, mix together coating ingredients in another medium size bowl.
Remove tomatoes from buttermilk--do not throw away buttermilk.
Coat each tomato slice in coating mixture; set aside.
Now in remaining buttermilk mixture add egg; beat well.
Return each coated tomato to buttermilk, making sure each side is well coated.
Return to coating mix one more time coating both sides.
In a medium size skillet over medium high, heat 1/4 cup vegetable oil till hot but not smoking.
Fry on both sides until coating is golden brown.