Chicken with Mole Sauce

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      1 hr

Appears in
The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home

By Mark Bittman

Published 2005

  • About

Real mole takes many forms, often using dozens of ingredients and taking days to make. This is an extremely simplified version of a dark, rich one that, not atypically, includes a bit of chocolate, for both flavor and color, a practice that does not, as some people believe, make the mixture sweet or even chocolaty. In fact, the presence of the chocolate should go undetected.

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