Chicken Mole

Name: Chicken Mole
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: Rice; 5 garlic cloves, finely sliced; 2 dried chilli peppers (ancho, chipotle, chilhuacle negro or a combination if you can); 70 g sesame seeds; 10 threads of saffron; 2 dried chilli peppers (ancho, chipotle, chilhuacle negro or a combination if you can); ¼ tsp whole cloves; ¼ tsp fennel seeds; 2 cm cinnamon stick; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 medium onion, halved and finely sliced; 1.5 kg chicken pieces, on the bone; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 70 g good-quality dark chocolate, coarsely chopped; 600 ml chicken stock; 4 tbsp groundnut oil; 85 g whole almonds

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Taste of the Unexpected

By Mark Diacono

Published 2010

About

This is loosely inspired by the sexy mole in Laura Esquivel’s book Like Water for Chocolate. While mole is traditionally made with turkey I think it’s just as good using chicken instead.

Ingredients

2 cm cinnamon stick
¼ tsp whole cloves
¼ tsp

Europe
United Kingdom
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas 4.

In a dry frying pan over a medium-low heat, dry fry the cinnamon, cloves, fennel, saffron and chillies for a couple of minutes until they release their aromas. Remove to a plate then soak the chillies in some boiling water for 20 minutes until s