Chicken with Pumpkin Seed Sauce

If the Indians of the Americas gave Spain its first turkey, Spain gave the Indians their first domesticated chicken. The results of such culinary crossing are birds of both kinds simmered in rich sauces called mole. The word means a mixture of any kind, and one of the best mixtures is made of Indian squash or pumpkin seeds to flavor Spanish chicken. The sauce below would be called a green mole, or mole verde, because it has everything green about it: green pumpkin seeds