Budget-Friendly Simple Genovese Sauce

Name: Budget-Friendly Simple Genovese Sauce
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 30 grams Fresh basil (or shiso leaves); 50 ml Olive oil; 1 tsp plus Kombu tea; 1 clove Garlic (grated)

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I made this to use up my home-harvested basil and shiso leaves. It was actually quite tasty and versatile, so I decided to post this recipe as a reminder for myself.

You can mix this sauce into natto, pasta, sautéed potatoes, or even salad - use it as you like. This sauce becomes more nutritious if you add more oil In fact, the Vitamin K (which actually works against osteoporosis) from the natto becomes more easily absorbed if you add more oil. Recipe by miyuki12

I made this to use up my home-harvested basil and shiso leaves. It was actually quite tasty and versatile, so I decided to post this recipe as a reminder for myself.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

I made this to use up my home-harvested basil and shiso leaves. It was actually quite tasty and versatile, so I decided to post this recipe as a reminder for myself.

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Ingredients

30 gramsFresh basil (or shiso leaves)
50 mlOlive oil
1 tspplus Kombu tea
1 cloveGarlic (grated)

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Steps

1

Put all the listed ingredients into a food processor and blend to finish. Pictured here in the front is the basil sauce, with the shiso sauce in the back. They don't look too different.
2

We usually add 1 scant teaspoon of this sauce into the natto instead of the accompanying natto sauce. It's great for your health and beauty.
3

If you're making basil sauce, it's also great to knead it into the pizza dough.
4

[To preserve:] To prevent the oil from oxidizing, I usually cover them up with plastic wrap and flatten them out to freeze. I just break off however much I need to defrost.