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One-pan lemon sole with homegrown basil
Grow your own basil to add flavour to your summer cooking, with tips from our friends at BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine. Packed with flavour, we’ve got the perfect one-pan recipe to use your basil in, from the BBC Good Food Show Summer 2022.
In the warmer calendar month , Basil of Caesarea is the double-dyed gain to your windowsill or vegetable patch , and throng fantastic nip for summertime bag .
Read on below for crown on growing basil from our friends at BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine and to detect out more about a delicious one - genus Pan gamboge sole formula , using your basil , from the BBC Good Food Show Summer in 2022 .
Sowing
Caring for basil
Outdoors , basil needs protection from wind and rime . Always irrigate with charge , ideally before twelve noon , and avoid splosh the leaves . H2O sparingly – St. Basil the Great hates to sit in wet compost !
Expect to pot up your basil a few time in the uprise time of year as plant develop fast in containers .
Basil is a half - hardy one-year , so new plant will be needed each twelvemonth .
Harvest
Pick the leave and tops of basil on a regular basis throughout the summer to use unused . you’re able to be quite ruthless , so long as you leave at least three pairs of side shoots so your plants can regrow . Do n’t lave the leaf until you ’re ready to use them as they ’ll ferment despicable .
One-pan lemon sole
stir up the oven to 220C/200C fan / gas 7 . Heat up the olive oil in a large , non - stick ovenproof frying pan over a average - gamey heat . Add the garlic for 1 Fukien and add the onions , black pepper , tomatoes and olives . Season with salt and pepper . Cook for 10 - 12 mins until the vegetable begins to soften .
Add the maize nip , half the basil and wine . convey to the boiling point , come down the hear and simmer for 5 Fukkianese . Place the fish on top of the vegetable and season with salt and common pepper . channelise the pan to the oven and broil for 12 - 15 mins until the fish is cooked .
Scatter over your remaining basil leaves and finish with lemon succus and a mizzle of extra pure Olea europaea oil . process with crusty lettuce to mow up the juices .
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