🇲🇽 Mexico cuisine · #2

Mole Poblano

Mole Poblano
Time180 min
Serves8
Ingredients15

Puebla's famous sauce of dozens of ingredients — dried chilies, chocolate, nuts and spices — served over chicken.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Poach the chicken in stock.
  2. Toast and soak the chilies; toast nuts, sesame, spices, tortilla, onion, garlic and tomatoes.
  3. Blend everything with some stock until very smooth.
  4. Fry the paste in oil 10 minutes, add stock and chocolate and simmer 45 minutes.
  5. Serve the chicken covered in mole and sprinkled with sesame.
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