What is Basil? Discover the Uses of Basil

Date 28 month 12 year 2018

In cooking, the use of spices makes food more delicious and appealing. Basil is a spice widely used in European dishes, often present in French restaurants. Maybe you have enjoyed dishes with basil but do not know what is basil? The name seems strange to many people who enjoy little Western food. To explore basil, let's find out about this spice as well as discover its use.

The world of diverse vegetables and spices. Using spices in processing makes the dish more delicious and has an attractive flavor. In particular, many spices are also considered valuable medicines in treatment. Understanding the characteristics and uses of each spice vegetable helps the cook to make better dishes. Therefore, to know more about basil, an attractive spice, we will learn what basil is and the use of it to gain more knowledge about the processing of our dishes.

What is Basil?

Basil, also known as basil (a herb that is closely related to basil and a distant relative to mint). Basil's leaves are often oval-shaped, green in color and quite distinctive in flavor, slightly spicy, sweet and sweet and have a characteristic aroma. In cuisine, thyme is commonly used to add flavor to soups, sauces, pizzas or salads or cakes.

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Basil is a very popular spice - Photo: Internet

Thyme is a typical spice of Western cuisine, especially Italian. Currently, thyme is commonly used in Vietnam in cooking as well as making cakes.

Basil's uses

Basil is most commonly used and is still eaten raw, mixed vegetables, salads or flavored dishes such as sauces or soups.

Basil is currently sold in two forms, fresh and dry, but you should prefer to use fresh. Because Basil is less fragrant, stiffer, and finely ground. Basil was used in case of an emergency when there was no fresh Basil left.

Basil is often used as a famous Italian salad. This salad is made from the 4 most basic ingredients in Italian cuisine, which is Basil, olive oil, Mozzarella buffalo cheese, tomatoes to create a salad with 3 colors in the flag of the country: red, green and white.

Basil is not only suitable for raw tomatoes, but also can be combined with ripe tomatoes to help the dish smell better. The ketchup is much better with Basil. Basil is the ingredient that makes Pesto, the famous Italian green sauce, made from Basil leaves.

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Delicious Pesto sauce made from Basil - Photo: Internet

To make Pesto sauce is not very complicated. Just put the grated Pamersan cheese, olive oil, Basil, garlic and pine nuts into the stone mortar and use a pestle to beat Pesto. The word Pesto in Italian also refers to the action of crushing materials in a stone mill.

Pesto sauce for dipping bread, mixing pasta and salad. Besides Pesto also combines with chicken, fish.

Compared to other aromatic leaves, Basil has a stronger aroma, so when used in Pestro sauce combined with Basil in large quantities, the sauce is a bit overwhelming, difficult to blend with beef and lamb.

Chicken and fish, pasta ... are all gentle ingredients, easy to highlight the taste of Pestro Basil. Green sauce makes the dishes even more interesting, though it doesn't have to be seasoned.

For vegetarians, using Pesto basil sauce with spaghetti will be suitable. If you want meat, use Pesto chicken pasta, much cooler than tomato sauce. Use Pesto sauce with salmon, salad and potatoes. Salmon just pan-fried slightly, not too cooked, served with Pesto sauce will be equally delicious Sashimi wasabi dots. Basil green sauce with grilled chicken breast is also very good, because chicken breast is quite dry and light, so Basil will become more attractive. But when you were tired of pan-fried chicken breast, smashed it out, put Pesto in the middle and rolled it back, just beautiful and not feeling sick.

So you know what a basil is and how it works. You can use this delicious spice to make dishes that suit your taste. Wish you have delicious dishes with a combination of basil.

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