Chicken Mole Poblano

Mexican

Chicken Mole Poblano

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Chicken Mole Poblano is Mexican home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

90 min Involved Gluten free Dairy free Halal

Ingredients

Serves
6

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Season the chicken with salt and brown it in the olive oil, then set aside.

  2. Toast the dried chiles briefly, then soak them in hot water until soft.

  3. Toast the almonds and sesame seeds, reserving a spoonful of sesame for garnish, then fry the tomatoes, onion, and garlic until soft.

  4. Blend the drained chiles, tomato mixture, toasted nuts, raisins, torn tortilla, cinnamon, cumin, chocolate, and broth into a smooth sauce.

  5. Return the sauce to the pot, add the chicken, and simmer gently until the mole is thick and the chicken is tender, about 40 minutes.

  6. Serve the chicken and mole over rice, sprinkled with the reserved sesame seeds.

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Serve it with

A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Mole Poblano, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Mole Poblano carries tree nuts and sesame. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Chicken Mole Poblano
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts Yes Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth)
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame Yes Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth)
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
570 kcal
Protein
34 g
Carbs
39 g
Fat
31 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
6 g
Sodium
750 mg
Saturated fat
6 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Chicken Mole Poblano takes about 90 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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