>>19454049Europeans started wars and stacked hundreds of thousands of bodies over spices, they weren't for the poor, spices were extremely expensive. Browning the chicken before smothering it with the sauce is perfectly acceptable and will add a lot of flavour to both the chicken and the sauce. Browning creates caramelization (flavor) on both the protein and the pan, then the fond (caramelization on the pan) gets worked into the sauce.
Just cooking the protein in the sauce will boil it and won't add flavor, marinating it in the sauce will add flavor to the protein.
TL;DR the nigger couldn't be more wrong
