Corona Cookbook: Basil Pasta

It’s always nice to take a break from homemade tomato sauce on your pasta.

This year, our garden has an over abundance of basil. Since snipping basil to grow back, again, one is always left, at the end of the day with several cups of basil leaves.

What can you do with the basil other then making pesto or a margarita pizza?|

My solution is quite simple. Why not make a sauce for pasta using the basil leaves.

Here is my recipe.

Ingredients:

1/2 pound of linguini

5 cloves of garlic minced

2 cups of fresh chopped basil

1/2 cup of pasta water

Extra virgin olive oil

Pecorino cheese

Black pepper

Red pepper flakes

Procedure:

Cook pasta three minutes under time

Heat olive oil on medium heat in a sauté pan

Add minced garlic

Add red pepper flakes

Cook four minutes

Add pasta

Add more olive oil and pasta water

Let cook for three minutes, then add Pecorino cheese

Add black pepper to taste, then add the sliced basil to the pan

Cook until the basil wilts

Add more cheese and serve