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Mole con Pollo

December 19, 2011 by Katie Mae Stanley 5 Comments

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Mole, what a delicious food. Chicken covered in a slightly spice, chocolately goodness wrapped up in a warm tortilla or over rice. For me this dish is a celebration food, it’s one of my friends, Gaby’s favorite thing to eat on her birthday. I used to buy the Dona Maria brand, I loved the taste! Then one day I read the ingredients…. soy bean oil was right there at the top. I determined to make my own. So my own version of mole was born. I used Taza brand chocolate, it is a traditional Mexican stone ground, organic, fair trade chocolate. Delightful but more expensive than the Abuelaita chocolate you can find but so good, you get what you pay for. The paste makes enough for more than one meal. I used 1/2 of it to make mole tamales and froze the rest to eat later. I hope you enjoy this dish! 

Mole Paste

10 dried california chilies
5 dried pabalano peppers
2 tortillas
5 oz of taza chocolate
2 cups crispy peanuts
½ cup sesame seeds
5 cups chicken/turkey broth
¼ cup butter
Melt the butter in a skillet. Add the dried chilies and fry for about five minutes. Add in the sesame seeds and peanuts stirring constantly for about two minutes or until the sesame seeds are light brown. Careful they like to jump out of the pan. 
In a sauce pot bring the broth to a simmer. Add the chocolate and stir until melted. 
In a blender combine the chile/nut mixer and the broth and chocolate mixture. Rip of the corn tortillas and blend  until smooth. If you have a regular size blender like me you may need to do this in two or three batches.

Mole con Pollo 


1/2 the mole paste
4 cups of chicken/turkey broth
1/2 cone piloncillo or 1/4 cup sucanat
5 cups of shredded chicken

In a sauce pan slowly heat the mole paste and broth. Once warm add the piconcillo or sucant. Stir every couple minutes until dissolved. Add chicken and stir until covered. Serve with rice and tortillas.

This post part of Fat Tuesday, Hearth and Soul, Simple Lives Thursday, Pennywise Platter Thursday,

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About Katie Mae Stanley

Katie Mae Stanley is the creator of Nourishing Simplicity. She believes that a made from scratch life is possible with a measure of grace. She teaches you to craft simple, nourishing recipes and natural DIY products at home.

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  1. April @ The 21st Century Housewife

    December 26, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    What a lovely traditional mole recipe! I’ve only ever had mole in restaurants, but this sounds SO much nicer! Thank you for sharing this post with the Hearth and Soul hop.

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  2. Christy

    December 22, 2011 at 10:15 pm

    I’ve been wanting to try a chocolate mole…I think I’ll mark this to try!

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  3. Jill@ RealFoodForager.com

    December 20, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    Thanks for linking your great post to FAT TUESDAY. This was very interesting! Hope to see you next week!

    Be sure to visit RealFoodForager.com on Sunday for Sunday Snippets – your post from Fat Tuesday may be featured there!

    http://realfoodforager.com/2011/12/fat-tuesday-december-20-2011/

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  4. Jenny

    December 20, 2011 at 3:15 pm

    Oh wow….this looks wonderful! I now have this on my “must try” list.

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