Basil sauce

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 20 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make basil sauce? Prepare your ingredients. For this sauce, take any basil - green or purple. Extra virgin olive oil is best, but if you don’t have it, you can use whatever you have. I sometimes use the most common vegetable, refined one.

2. STEP 2

   

   Rinse the basil greens well and dry with paper towels. Tear the leaves off the stems; basil stems are coarse and difficult to chop. You can use them when cooking broth or stewing meat. Or finely chop the stems with a knife and dry them, then add the dry ones to any dishes for flavor.

3. STEP 3

   

   Peel the garlic cloves and place in a blender along with the basil. Grind them into a mushy mass. For chopping, you can use either a stationary blender, or a chopper attachment from a mixer, or an immersion blender. If you don’t have any equipment at hand, then try making the sauce the old fashioned way - in a mortar. It won’t be easy, but this is exactly how Italian housewives made the sauce before the advent of blenders.

4. STEP 4

   

   Add olive oil, lemon juice, salt and ground black pepper to taste. Beat again with a blender until smooth. Place the sauce in small, clean jars and store in the refrigerator.

5. STEP 5

   

   This sauce can be served with meat, fish dishes, pasta, salads, or used as a spread on toast. Any dish with the addition of this sauce will reveal its taste in a new way. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

hang out

13.10.2023

4.8

Thanks for the sauce recipe. Prepare another option - basil pesto sauce.

Maystin

13.10.2023

4.8

Very interesting sauce! Thanks for the recipe! The basil sauce turns out to be very fragrant and, of course, healthy) It doesn’t stagnate for a long time in our house. It goes well with pasta, and I like it even just with a piece of bread.