UPDATE: You are correct...these are purple tomatillos. If you can find tomatillos in your local grocery store they are most often green and range in size from a golf ball to a vine-ripened tomato. The purple or yellow varieties can be used just the same as the green varieties in sauces, soups and salsas.
Do you know what these purple gems are? They are one of my favorites!
From: Tom Kennedy | 1/3/11 at 10:30 am
Purple tomatillos
From: Danielle Nichols | 1/3/11 at 10:31 am
They look like a tomatillo only purple.
From: Roxanne | 1/3/11 at 10:31 am
Tomatillos?
From: Sarah Hortman, RD | 1/3/11 at 10:36 am
It looks like a purple tomatillo or maybe a Cape Gooseberry which is a relative of the tomatillo.
From: Michelle Phillips | 1/3/11 at 10:38 am
Looks like a ripened tomatillo.
From: Andrea | 1/3/11 at 10:41 am
Purple tomatillos! My fav too!
From: aneelee | 1/3/11 at 10:46 am
Purple tomatillos. Been looking for some ad can't find regionally.
From: rossana casali | 1/3/11 at 11:54 am
I would like to know what is the name of the fruit ito the fotho, and how I eat or use , thank
From: Blue Penguin | 1/3/11 at 10:05 pm
I'd thought the were medlars (perhaps before the going-off-the-way-they're-meant-to stage), but think I've been drowned out in a sea of tomatillos! They look very pretty, though...
From: Kristy | 3/2/11 at 11:44 am
Now is a good time to plant the seeds indoors if you want to grow your own. Lots of seed companies sell purple tomatillo. the variety is sometimes called "de milpa."