Most should survive. Just push in broken branches into good wet soil, water well, and they droop, reroot, then more growing later on..

I think good things will come out of all this. For now the plant will convert energy to concentrate on growing the root system then with a few good days of light the foliage growth will follow after that. Basil is a prolific grower anyway.

No need to get angry. This is the perfect opportunity for creating several new plants. Basil cuttings, especially the woodier parts, strike very easily. Just neaten the whole thing up by making clean cuts, plant them out and before long you'll have lots of healthy plants.

The Basil is doing much better now. It has recovered & is starting where it left off, growth wise. Karma gave me a blessing last night. Since I had this disaster, some higher being must have decided that I was owed something positive. :) I was sitting on the porch last night drinking a beer, looking at my plants & saw a few ladybugs crawling on the rail!!! yay! So, I carefully moved them to my pepper plants with aphid/mite problems. This morning, most of the aphids & mites were gone! :)

I didn't know you could take cuttings and they would grow.

Good to know this.

Tn, how lucky to find Ladybirds in your garden.

Well, you all were right, of course. :) I did not use the branch that broke off, but my Basil plant is doing quite well. :) Below are a few pics of it from today. Thanks for the emotional reinforcement...lol