OAXACAN CHICKEN MOLE

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Categories     Chicken

Yield 12 people

Number Of Ingredients 30

For the chicken:
2 large chickens (about 3 1/2 pounds each), each chicken cut into 8 pieces
2 small heads of garlic, scored around the middle
2 small white onions, roughly sliced
6 fresh mint sprigs
Sea salt to taste
The Sauce:
1/4 pound chilhuacles negros or guajillos
2 ounces chiles pasillas (Mexican, not Oaxacan)
2 ounces chiles mulatos
1/2 pound (about 1 large) tomatoes, broiled
1 cup water
3 whole cloves
3 whole allspice
6 fresh thyme sprigs, leaves only
6 fresh marjoram sprigs, leaves only
1 tablespoon Mexican oregano
3/4 cup melted lard or safflower oil
1/4 cup sesame seeds
1/4 cup shelled peanuts
10 unskinned almonds
1/4 cup raisins
1 small onion, thickly sliced
12 small garlic cloves, peeled
1 very thick 3-inch cinnamon stick, slivered
1 ripe plantain, skinned and cut into thick slices
2 crisp-fried corn tortillas
3 thick slices dried French bread
1 (2-ounce) tablet Mexican drinking chocolate
Sea salt to taste

Steps:

  • Put the reserved chile seeds into an ungreased frying pan and toast over fairly high heat, shaking them around from time to time so that they brown evenly. Then raise the heat and char until black. Cover with cold water and set aside to soak for about 5 minutes. Strain and put into a blender jar. Add the broiled tomatoes, unpeeled, to the blender jar along with the water, cloves, allspice, thyme, marjoram, and oregano. Heat some of the lard in a small frying pan and fry the sesame seed until a deep golden color, a few seconds. Strain, putting the fat back into the pan and the seeds into the blender jar, and blend as smooth as possible. Fry the rest of the ingredients, except the chiles and chocolate, one by one, strain, and put into the blender jar, blending after each addition and adding water or broth as necessary to release the blades. Heat 1/4 cup of the lard in the heavy pan in which you are going to cook the mole, add the blended mixture, and fry over medium heat, stirring and scraping the bottom of the pan from time to time, for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, put a few of the chiles and about 2 cups of the water in which they were soaking into the blender jar and blend until smooth. When you have blended all the chiles, add them to the fried ingredients together with the chocolate and cook for 5 minutes longer. Add about 4 cups of the chicken broth and continue cooking for 35 minutes. Skim the fat that forms on the top if you are going to make tamales or mole. It is added to color and flavor the masa. Add more broth if necessary, the mole should just coat the back of a wooden spoon. Add the chicken and salt to taste; cook for 10 minutes longer.

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