Quick pizza. Top a pizza base or Lebanese bread with Napolitana sauce, mozzarella, and pepperoni. Add crumbled feta or goat cheese. Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, sprinkle with dried basil leaves and chilli flakes before baking.
Add to minestrone, broths, or pureed vegetable soups. Serve with oven baked croutons (tossed with olive oil and basil).
Sauté sliced leeks in olive oil with basil and lardons (bacon). Serve with fried eggs, haloumi, or mashed potato. Add to omelettes, scrambled eggs.
Sprinkle basil over vine ripened tomatoes with sea salt, pepper, and olive oil and semi dry in a low temperature oven. Use them with salads, antipasto, pasta dishes or with grilled meats.
Add basil to a braise of tomato, eggplant, onion, peppers, and garlic, serve with pasta or as a side.
Add basil to breadcrumbs before crumbing lamb cutlets or schnitzel.
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