To use up your basil bounty, try our spreads, sauces, restaurant-style pastas, and even a refreshing drink with basil.

Fresh ingredients, vibrant flavors, and a fast cooking time make this pasta recipe a perfect choice for busy weeknights.

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Basil is a signal creature of summer, a robust herb that flourishes in the hot sun. Genovese basil — sometimes called big leaf basil, sweet basil, or true basil — is the very scent of the season, with ...

With fresh, aromatic basil leaves as its base, pesto adds emerald green color and the taste of summer to pasta. The lemon really brightens the flavor of the pesto. Add the pesto to pasta, chicken, ...

There are five ingredients in basil pesto and an optional sixth. Essential to the recipe are basil, garlic, pine nuts (or a nut substitute), olive oil and Parmesan. A possible sixth ingredient, and ...

It's not easy being green. We tasted eight different pestos to find the brightest, boldest, most basil-forward pesto brands to bring home from the store. The post We Tried 8 Brands of Pesto and Only ...

Ginger and basil are two of the most versatile ingredients that can elevate the flavor of any dish. While ginger adds a zesty ...