Basil sauce: delicious recipe for pasta dishes
The basil sauce or Basil cream It is a sauce with which we can accompany pasta dishes, seasoning meats, fish and is also ideal to accompany salads. The basil besides providing an exquisite flavor to our dishes will benefit us with all its nutritional properties.
We could find a recipe or similar dish in the popular Italian sauce traditionally known by the name of pesto, a delicious sauce with a characteristic green color that is made precisely with fresh basil leaves, as well as other ingredients such as parsley, Parmesan or pecorino cheese, pine nuts and garlic clove.
As you know, pesto is characterized by being a traditional sauce from Italy, whose name comes from the word Genovese Prestare and what it literally means crush. And just like the basil sauce recipe we talked about in this note, It is ideal to accompany dishes of pasta, meat, fish and fresh salads.
While the basil sauce that we propose to you on this occasion is not made with Parmesan or pecorino cheese but with Greek yogurt, it does have some ingredients in common as is the case of extra virgin olive oil and ground black pepper.
How to make basil sauce
Ingredients
- A few leaves of fresh basil (about 50 grams).
- A Greek yogurt
- Extra virgin olive oil with a mild flavor.
- A pinch of salt.
- A pinch of ground black pepper.
Elaboration:
We wash the basil leaves well and drain them.
We put the basil leaves in the blender.
Add the Greek yogurt together with the basil and beat well.
Then add the oil little by little and mix again.
Then add a pinch of salt and another pepper.
Stir well with a spoon until well blended.
The sauce should have a creamy texture.
