Dinner Recipes with Basil ideas. How to cook using fresh basil herbs for summer salad lunches and ideas for warm dishes for meals.
Dinner Recipes with Basil
A selection of some ideas for cooking with basil recipes for you to create. A great vegetarian basil pesto lasagna and a simple marinara sauce and other meals that use basil herb for taste and toppings. Put together healthy summer salad recipe that are garnished with fresh sweet basil. Make a basil pesto for dinner and bottle it for you recipe uses. Oven cook and Bake recipe or no cook no bake recipe ideas to put together. The choice is yours.
FAQ’s
How to use fresh basil for dinner?
- caprese tomato salads
- basil pesto lasagna
- marinara sauce
- topping with pesto bread
- cooking with meats
- pesto
- garnishes
What are 3 ways you can eat basil?
- Add it to salads, caprese tomato salad.
- Place it on breads,
- sandwiches under egg.
- Chop and add it in pasta dishes,
- or top grilled meats and vegetable dishes
What complements basil?
Basil goes great with tomatoes, peppers, and blends well with herbs like oregano and parsley. It is also a great companion plant that chases away pests and attracts pollinators, and brings out the flavors of the foods.
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Grilled Chicken Caprese Lunch Bowl
A simple Grilled Chicken Caprese Lunch Bowl with avocado recipe for summer. Served with lettuce and cherry tomatoes and cheese.
Cherry Tomato Caprese Salad with glazed balsamic vinegar recipe. Easy tasty side dish with mozzarella balls, fresh basil leaves and spices.
Basil Pesto Vegetable Lasagna. This vegetable lasagna is made with three cheeses to give it a tangy but healthy taste with vegetables.
Creamy Cabbage Casserole with Cheese
A Creamy Cabbage Casserole recipe with melted Cheese topping. A baked vegetable dish made with cream of mushroom soup.
One Pan Bell Peppers Omelet that a vegetarian would love for a meal or breakfast. Sautéed bell peppers and fresh herbs and parmesan cheese.
Simple Marinara Tomato sauce. A sauce that is simple to make yet tasty made with some garlic and herbs and spices, bottle it.
Quick and Easy Pesto Flatbread
Quick and Easy Pesto Flatbread snack to make for a light supper. Healthy and tasty baked in minutes with basil pesto and topped with cheese.
Sautéed Shrimp Scampi with Garlic.
Sautéed Shrimp Scampi with Garlic. Seafood shrimp sauté in butter with wine and garlic and basil. Adding cooked linguine.
For a quick and easy weekend lunch or supper make this Quick Homemade Pizza filled with bacon and banana, herbs and cheese, or mini pizza.
This Herb Roasted Pork Tenderloin is for you. It’s ridiculously simple and pretty much fool proof. Just mix up some garlic, herbs, and oil, smear it on the pork, and throw it in the oven.
Basil lime grilled chicken kebabs
Juicy, flavorful, tender chicken pieces. Ready in 30 minutes. Perfect for a weeknight meal.
I’ve always been a fan of fresh basil pesto made from scratch rather than from a jar. It’s actually quite simple to make and tastes so much better.
For some reason when you add some garlic, salt, pepper, basil and a touch of balsamic vinegar to tomatoes, they transform into the most delicious bite that you could ever eat.
This Easy Grilled Zucchini is garlicky, lightly charred summer side dish that requires 5 simple ingredients. Great way to use up garden-fresh zucchini.
At least our dinners have been running on schedule, courtesy of easy, one-pan recipes like this Lemon Basil Chicken.
Easy salmon with avocado and basil
This skillet salmon comes together in 15 minutes and is naturally gluten-free, low-carb and paleo. Top it off with avocado, lime, basil, and salt and enjoy.
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