Recipes with basil - 26 recipes
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Top rated Basil recipes
Tomato Basil and Cheese scrambled eggs
By queenselphie
A lovely way to do scrambled eggs for breakfast
- 1 plum tomato
- butter
- 1 tablespoon of cheese
- 2 large free range eggs
- cream
- toasted ciabatta, to serve
- few torn basil leaves
Tomato and mozzarella sticks
By queenselphie
A handy snack for parties
- Cherry tomatoes
- Cocktail sticks
- Mozzarella
- Basil
One Pan Pasta
By aem_2003
Combine all ingredients except for mushrooms in a wide skillet
- 2 cups water
- 2 oz angelhair pasta
- 3 oz grape tomatoes
- 5-6 cloves garlic, sliced
- 3-4 leaves basil, chopped
- 1 tbsp oil (sesame or olive)
- salt to taste
- 2-3 mushrooms
Chickpea pasta salad with basil
By Lirilou
Cook the pasta. Drain and mix with the drained chickpeas
- 1 tin of 250 g chickpeas
- 2 tomatoes, seeded and chopped
- 1 small spring onion, finely chopped
- 3 tbsp basil
- 250g pasta
- 4 tbsp oil
- 1/2 clove garlic, crushed
- 1 tbsp wine vinegar
- A little chilli powder (optional)
- salt and pepper
Mad's Pesto
By mteo
Catering Size
- 3 Bunches of Basil (stalks removed)(a bunch is about a 100g)
- 1 Bunch of Parsley (stalks removed)
- 1 lt Olive Oil
- 500g Pine Nuts
- 200g Grated Parmesan
- 1 Clove of Garlic
- Salt and Pepper
bruchetta
By kelleysmith22
Peel, seed the tomatoes and cut them into thin slices
- - 6 thick slices wholemeal country bread
- - Tomatoes
- - 300g mozzarella
- - 2 cloves garlic
- - 6 tbsp olive oil
- - 20 leaves basil
- - salt
- - pepper
Italian Style Couscous Cakes
By agrawal.shweta.n, Merry Tummy
I made couscous cakes using basil and oregano to give that Italian touch
- 3/4 cup couscous
- 1 cup boiling water
- Salt to taste
- 1 large garlic clove crushed
- 1/4 cup packed fresh basil leaves
- 2 tablespoons fresh oregano leaves.
- 2 green chilles chopped
- 1 teaspoon lime juice
- 1/2 cup chickpeas, rinsed and drained (canned)
- Olive oil for roasting
Watermelon, feta & basil salad
By Aude
Cut the watermelon into small cubes and place in a large salad bowl
- 1/2 watermelon
- 1 block of feta cheese
- A few basil leaves
Organic pasta twists with basil and parsley coulis
By Alpina Savoie
Cook the pasta twists as indicated on the packet, in boiling salted water
- 400g oragnic pasta twists
- 1 bunch of fresh basil
- 1 bunch of parsley
- 100 ml chicken stock (cold)
- 150 ml of olive oil
- 150 ml crème fraiche 35% fat
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- Macaroon with tomato basil feta 4.2/5 (36 Votes)
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Snacks, Starters, and Nibbles -...
- 1 400g can chickpeas
- Bunch of Greek basil – though you could use ordinary
- Glugs of Olive oil
- 1 garlic clove chopped
- 75 gm pine nuts – toasted lightly in a dry frying pan
- Good handful of grated pecorino
- 1 red chilli deseeded and chopped
- Salt and pepper
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The Best Pesto
- 110g/4oz Fresh Basil Leaves
- 25g/2oz Pine Nuts
- 40g/1.5oz Fresh Parmesan Cheese (finely grated, but not too fine)
- 1 Garlic Clove (peled and crushed)
- 170-225ml/6-8fl oz Olive Oil
- Instead of basil can use : 50g/2oz Wild Garlic Leaves or the same of Rocket
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Shrimp with Basil-Mango Sauce...
- 1 medium ripe mango or 2 medium peaches, peeled and sliced
- 2 to 4 tablespoons minced fresh basil
- 12 cooked medium shrimp, peeled
- 1 tablespoon butter
- Basil sprigs
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Chicken, cream and basil pasta
- 1 tbs olive oil,
- 2 chopped shallots
- 400g cubed chicken
- 125 sliced mushrooms
- 50g sultans
- a pinch of cinnamon
- 125 ml hot chicken stock
- 300g pasta
- 142 ml double cream
- 2tsp Dijon mustard
- chopped basil
- Parmesan shortbread, dried... 4.1/5 (29 Votes)
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Basil pesto
- 20g basil
- 25g grated parmesan
- 50g pine nuts
- 4 tbsp. olive oil
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Sea bass with mashed sweet...
- 4 filets sea bass with skin
- 500g sweet potatoes
- 1 clove of garlic
- 150g tomatoes, skin removed, cut into cubes
- 5 sweet basil leaves (or Thai)
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Tomato & Basil Soup
- 10 ml oil
- 1.2 kg fresh tomatoes
- 1 large onion
- 1 carrot
- 1 celery stick
- 2 squires of tomato puree
- pinch of sugar
- 1.5 pints of stock
- Handful of fresh basil
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Terrine with fresh goat's cheese...
- 6 red peppers, roasted and peeled
- 150g goat's cheese
- 10 pitted black olives
- 1 bunch of parsley
- 1 bunch of chives
- 6 basil leaves
- Salt and Pepper
- Olive oil for seasoning
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Fillets of salmon with two sauces
- Salmon with lime sauce and Merken Mapuche spices:
- 4 salmon fillets
- 1 large or 2 small lime
- 1 small piece of ginger
- 30 g butter
- 2 tbsp of cream
- 1 rounded tsp of Merken spice mix
- Fleur de sel with lemon zest
- Penja pepper
- Basil sauce:
- 2 handfuls of spinach leaves
- ½ bunch of basil
- 40 cl of single cream
- 1 tbsp of green tea
- Fleur de sel Ifaty, Penja pepper
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Dandelion pesto
- 2 big handfuls of dandelion greens
- 2 handfuls of fresh basil leaves
- 1 handful of spinach (optional)
- The petals from 5 dandelion flowers
- 1 large clove of garlic
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1 handful of pine nuts
- 1 handful of hemp, sunflower seeds or macadamia nuts
- Enough extra virgin olive oil to bind the sauce together, around 4-6 tbsp
- Juice of half a lemon
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes (optional)
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