Mexican chicken mole recipe
Try this succulent traditional Mexican mole for a tasty fiesta feast. This savoury dish combines heady spices, such as cloves and cinnamon, with fiery chipotle, fresh chillies, and Mexican dark chocolate. This dish is slow-cooked for two hours, giving plenty of time for the deliciously deep, rich flavours to develop.
See method- Serves 4
- 30 mins to prepare and 2 hrs to cook
- 914 calories / serving
Ingredients
- 4 under-ripe tomatoes
- 2 red chillies, halved
- 2 green chillies, halved
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 onion, finely sliced
- 6 garlic cloves
- 1 lemon, zest and juice
- 30g sesame seeds
- 75g (3oz) ground almonds
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp whole peppercorns, grounded
- 1/2 tsp whole cloves, grounded
- 1 slice stale bread
- 40g (1 1/2oz) dark chocolate
- 600ml (1 pint) chicken stock
- 1 1/2 tbsp chipotle sauce
- 4 chicken legs
- 1 star anise
- 2 tsp dried oregano
- 70g (3oz) smooth peanut butter
- rice, to serve
Each serving contains
- Energy
- 3795kJ 914.0kcal
- Fat
- 71g
- Saturates
- 18g
- Salt
- 0.7g
- Sugars
- 11g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 16.8gProtein 53.0gFibre 10.2g
Method
- Preheat the oven to gas 7, 220°C, fan 200°C.
- On a tray, combine the tomatoes and chilli and bake until soft and starting to char. In a large, heavy-based saucepan, add the butter and oil and cook the onion until soft. When it is beginning to go translucent, add in the garlic.
- Add the tomatoes, chillies, lemon zest and juice, sesame seedsand ground almonds and cook for 5 minutes.
- Using a pestle and mortar, grind the whole peppercorn and cloves. Add the cinnamon, peppercorn, cloves, bread, chocolate, stock and chipotle, and cook for a further 5 minutes. Then blitz in a food processor until smooth.
- Put the chicken in a clean, large saucepan and pour over the sauce. Add the star anise, oregano and peanut butter. Put a lid on the saucepan and cook on low for 2 hours until the chicken is tender. Serve with rice.
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