Purée of Potato with Basil

Name: Purée of Potato with Basil
Ingredients: 2 lb (900 g) potatoes, peeled, cooked and puréed; 3 oz (75 g) basil leaves; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; ½ pint (150 ml) good quality olive oil

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

In a warm summer basil should be plentiful, and it is now sold year round in supermarkets.

Ingredients

2 lb (900 g) potatoes, peeled, cooked and puréed
3 oz (75

Sauce
Side dish
Vegan
August

Method

Put the potato purée into a warmed dish. Liquidise the basil with the olive oil. Stir into the potato purée. Season.