Chicken Mole

Name: Chicken Mole
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 8 pieces bone-in chicken; 4 dried mulato chiles; 2 dried pasilla chiles; 2 dried ancho chiles; 3 tbsp sesame seeds; 2 tbsp pumpkin seeds; ½ cup almonds; 1 slice bread, toasted; 1 onion; 4 cloves garlic; 1 can crushed tomatoes; 50g dark chocolate; 1 tsp cinnamon; ½ tsp cloves; 2 cups chicken broth

Complex Mexican mole with dark chocolate, chillies, and 20 ingredients — worth every step.

Total time

115 min

Prep

40 min

Cook

75 min

Difficulty

hard

Cuisine

Mexican

comfortchickenspecial

Ingredients

8 piecesbone-in chicken

4dried mulato chiles

2dried pasilla chiles

2dried ancho chiles

3 tbspsesame seeds

2 tbsppumpkin seeds

½ cupalmonds

1slice bread, toasted

1onion

4 clovesgarlic

1 cancrushed tomatoes

50gdark chocolate

1 tspcinnamon

½ tspcloves

2 cupschicken broth

Instructions

Toast and soak dried chiles. Toast seeds and nuts in a dry pan.

Blend chiles, nuts, bread, tomatoes, garlic, onion, and spices with broth until smooth.

Fry mole paste in oil until it changes colour.

Add broth and chocolate; simmer 30 min.

Add chicken; simmer 30 more min until cooked. Serve with rice.