32 basil recipes

Whole wheat spaghetti is tossed with tomato sauce, fresh basil, feta cheese and olives. A quick, tasty yet healthy one-pot meal, perfect for busy week days.

Grilled cheese is probably one of the easiest and tastiest foods to make. The warm-oozy cheese and nicely browned bread are just irresistible. You can add whatever you like in the filling between the bread, extra yumminess is always welcomed.

It's hard to resist this delicious and cheesy grilled cheese that's made with caramelized onion, basil pesto, sun-dried tomatoes and Swiss cheese.

This is a great cold salad. The basil and cherry tomatoes marry perfectly with a high-quality sweet balsamic vinegar along with tender-crisp green and yellow wax beans.

Instead of pizza sauce, used basil pesto, and the combination of the toppings worked deliciously well together. Cheddar and parmesan really added tons of yummy cheesiness, which was absolutely delicious with the toppings.

This is lovely, fresh, simple, quick and easy pasta dish that can be served as fast as the spaghetti can cook. Fresh Italian flavor rings through and the ingredients are perfectly matched.

Creamy Corn Chowder with Fresh Basil and Cherry Tomato recipe

These turned out really great. Sweet and juicy explosions of corn along. The basil really makes this recipe shine. Nice light, clean and crisp taste, perfectly seasoned and it's quick and easy to make.

The other day while we were watching Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen, chefs were making flatbread, basically like pizza, just different shape, which really made my craving for pizza come back to life. Then start making this sun-dried tomato, olive and basil pesto flatbread, and it was so good...

This pasta sauce is basically a variation on the Indian raita, a cooling, soothing combination of cucumber, cilantro and yogurt.

Penne with Cauliflower Tomatoes and Basil recipe