Quick and Easy Margherita Pizza

Step 5 It slices! It dices! Part II

Now it's time to chop up the basil. Other, more culinarily astute people, will say things like, "Cut your basil into Julienne strips." I say stack three or four of your (rinsed, c'mon use common sense!) basil leaves and cut them three or four times horizontally. Pile up the resultant pieces and run your knife through them a few times in a few different directions. That will get you an easily spreadable pile of basil.