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Basil Recipes

24 recipes with basil for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

24 recipes

Bruschetta with baguette, basil and garlic — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyEasy

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Bruschetta

Grilled bread rubbed with raw garlic, drizzled with good olive oil, then piled high with ripe tomatoes and torn basil. A baguette of about 250 g gives about 20 slices — two per serving. The bread must be charred enough to crunch but still soft inside — that contrast is everything.

15 min120 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Pesto with basil, olive oil and parmesan — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyEasy

Sauces and Dips

Pesto

Pine nuts and garlic pounded with fresh basil, sharp Pecorino, and fruity olive oil into a vivid green sauce. Made properly in a mortar, the texture stays slightly coarse and the basil flavor stays bright, not bruised.

18 min570 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🥑Keto

Caprese Salad with balsamic vinegar, basil and mozzarella — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyEasy

Salads

Caprese Salad

Caprese Salad is a simple and refreshing Italian salad that is perfect for summer days. It consists of fresh tomatoes, mozzarella, basil and olive oil.

13 min300 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🥑Keto⚡Quick

Tomato Soup with tomato, onion and basil — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Soups

Tomato Soup

Tomato soup is a classic American dish noted for its smooth texture and rich flavor. Made with crushed tomatoes, onions, garlic and cream. Often served with a grilled cheese sandwich.

70 min225 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Stewed Fish with fish, tomato and garlic — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Stewed Fish

This recipe combines the tenderness of fish with the flavor of Mediterranean herbs and spices, as well as the sourness of tomatoes and olives. Light yet rich and flavorful.

23 min200 kcal2 serves

🥑Keto⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Meatballs with minced meat, onion and breadcrumbs — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Meatballs

Italian meatballs (polpette) — juicy balls of mixed minced meat seasoned with aromatic herbs and cheese, fried to a golden crust and stewed in a rich tomato sauce.

68 min530 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Ajapsandal with eggplant, tomato and garlic — Georgia recipe

🇬🇪GeorgiaAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Ajapsandal

Ajapsandal (also spelled Adzhapsandali or Ajapsandali) is a Georgian vegetable stew of eggplants, bell peppers, tomatoes and potatoes, seasoned with cilantro, basil, parsley, garlic and hot pepper. The eggplant is fried first, then everything simmers together under a lid for 20 to 25 minutes. It is served hot as a main course or cold as an appetiser, and many people think it tastes better the next day. The quantities here (about 1 kg of eggplant, 350 g of peppers, 600 g of tomatoes and 400 g of potatoes) make four generous main-course portions, or six as a side. The 70 minutes cover chopping, frying and stewing; salting the eggplant adds 20 to 30 minutes of waiting, and the finished stew rests another 15 to 20.

70 min470 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Lasagna with lasagna pasta, ground beef and ricotta — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyAdvanced

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Lasagna

Lasagna is baked layers of wide pasta sheets, meat sauce, béchamel and cheese. This version also adds a layer of ricotta mixed with egg and Parmesan, the way Italian-American kitchens often do it, so it comes out denser and richer than a plain ragù-and-béchamel lasagne. Bake it 35–40 minutes and let it rest before cutting, so the layers set into clean squares.

100 min950 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

Pasta Primavera with pasta, tomato and zucchini — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyAdvanced

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Pasta Primavera

Pasta Primavera is a popular American dish inspired by Italian traditions, created in the 1970s at Le Cirque restaurant in New York City. Light and fresh, perfect for spring and summer.

30 min430 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick💪High protein

Penne in Tomato Sauce with penne, tomato and garlic — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Penne in Tomato Sauce

Penne in tomato sauce is a versatile dish that can be either a simple everyday dinner or the basis for more complex variations with the addition of meat, seafood or vegetables.

33 min580 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy

Marry Me Chicken with chicken, cream and parmesan — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Marry Me Chicken

Marry Me Chicken is an American skillet dish of chicken breasts in a cream sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and Parmesan, named for the joke that one plate is enough to get a proposal. It was created at the US food site Delish in 2016, went round the world from there and stayed because it needs one pan, twenty minutes of work and no unusual shopping. The breasts are seared to a golden crust, then finished in the oven in the sauce so they stay juicy.

35 min680 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Sausage and Pea Pasta with sausage, peas and parmesan — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Sausage and Pea Pasta

Italian pork sausages browned until the fat renders and the casing crisps, then simmered in a quick tomato-cream sauce with peas and finished with parmesan. This is the kind of pasta that feels like a restaurant dish but comes together in under 30 minutes on a weeknight. Rigatoni's ridged tubes hold the sauce inside and out — every forkful pulls a bit of everything.

30 min690 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Ingredients

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tomato garlic parmesan mozzarella onion zucchini eggplant ground beef ricotta lemon red onion ground coriander