Put the basil in the pizza. When making pizza, spread basil and sprinkle with chopped black pepper. Basil smells cool and sweet, slightly salty and delicious, and can be used in large quantities. But the leaves are tender, not heat-resistant, and will turn black when heated. It is often used in cold sauce or salad, and is often used for decoration on dishes or hot dishes.

Margarita pizza, the most classic pizza in Naples, uses fresh sweet basil leaves as the green symbol in the Italian flag (cold-adjusted San Mazano tomatoes as the red symbol and fresh buffalo mozzarella cheese as the white symbol). The sweet basil leaves here are baked with pizza, mainly for eating. Fresh sweet basil can also be baked without pizza, but it is mainly used as a decorative plate after pizza is baked, and of course it is edible.

Basil classification

It originated in the tropical regions of Africa, America and Asia, and has a strong, stimulating and aromatic smell. There are many varieties of basil, which are mainly divided into three categories: Italian basil, aromatic basil and shrub basil.

Italian basil: including sweet basil and wrinkled basil (divided into purple wrinkled leaves and green wrinkled leaves). Sweet basil is the most commonly used variety in pizza, pasta and salad.

Aromatic basil: including purple basil, lemon basil, cinnamon basil, holy basil, etc.

Shrub basil: including Greek basil, shrub basil, etc.