Basil oil2

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 cups Tightly packed fresh basil leaves
1 cup Olive or vegetable oil

Directions

In a large sauce pan, blanch basil leaves for 5 seconds. Refresh in an ice bath and squeeze out any excess liquid. Place leaves and oil in a blender and puree.

First, strain the puree through a fine mesh sieve. Then line a small strainer with several layers of cheesecloth and strain oil into a glass jar. Flavored oil keeps, covered loosely and refrigerated at all times, 1 month.

Yield: 1 cup

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL8954 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #790 by "Angele and Jon Freeman" <jfreeman@...> on Sep 19, 1997

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