Except for the fact that purple basil doesn t look as pretty as the green in many dishes and makes a rather oddly colored pesto i would probably quit growing the green stuff altogether.
Purple basil pasta.
Basil mint garlic olive oil pepper flakes sugar lemon juice and 31 more eggplant ragu with creamy polenta in seconds seconds parmesan cheese eggplant cherry tomatoes sugar basil chili flakes and 8 more.
This pesto will last for up to 3 weeks when kept in an airtight container in the fridge.
And then i turned it into pesto.
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2 cups fresh purple basil leaves tightly packed 1 2 cup extra virgin olive oil 3 tablespoons pine nuts 2 garlic cloves chopped fine before putting in the processor salt 1 3 cup parmesan cheese freshly grated 2 tablespoons pecorino romano cheese freshly grated 3 tablespoons butter.
With the food processor running drizzle in the olive oil through that chute thingie.
Add more salt to taste if necessary.
The purple basil has a more subtle and sweeter flavour to its punchy green brother.
Four years ago i grew my first purple basil and had no idea what to do with it.