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Summary: Simmering the chicken for Thai basil chicken in sauce will ensure that your chicken is fully cooked. Learn more about how to simmer chicken for this recipe with tips from a chef in this free cooking video.
Sven Robinson began his culinary career in 1983. His 25 years of experience working in restaurants in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, Arizona, San Francisco and Los Angeles...read more
"Once our spices are in you are going to want to stir them to be sure that there is no clumps of dry spice anywhere and then we will take our basil and we will pick off the ends and we will cut each leaf on a bias. We'll add that to our sauce and we'll give it a quick stir and then we are going to take our chicken, readd that, now the chicken is about half way done right now, we will stir it to coat and then we're going to go and turn our heat down. We're at 8 right now, we're going to turn it down to about 4 or 4 and 1/2 and then we are just going to let these chickens simmer in the sauce and we will turn them periodically to make sure that they are basted on both sides and cooked all the way through on both sides."