Mole Sencillo | Sweet Heat with Rick Martinez
Welcome to Sweet Heat with Rick Martinez. Twice a month, Rick will be bringing you recipes built on this favorite flavor profiles—sweet and heat—from his kitchen in Mazatlán. First up: Mole. One of the most famous sauces in Mexico because of their beautifully complex, smoky-sweet-hot flavor, their velvety smooth texture, and their rich, deep color. Rick created this Mole Sencillo—or “simple mole”—with only 10 ingredients and a handful of steps. Think of it as a starter mole that will help you master the techniques used in making basically any mole. GET THE RECIPE ►►
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:51 Simple Ingredients Done Right
07:29 Build That Flavor
08:59 Fry Time
11:20 The Perfect Blend
15:26 Actually, It's Time to Eat!
INGREDIENTS
1 large (123g) Roma tomato, cored
1/4 large (71g) white onion
6 medium (60g) chile ancho, stemmed and seeded
1/3 cup lard or vegetable oil
1/3 cup (22g) animal crackers
1/4 cup (40g) raw almonds
1/4 cup (35g) raisins
1 tablespoon (10g) untoasted sesame seeds
1 whole star anise
2 tablespoons Diamond Crystal or 3 1/2 teaspoons Morton (15g) kosher salt
1 tablespoon (16g) piloncillo or dark brown sugar
1 1/4 ounces (35g) bittersweet chocolate, preferably 75% or more cacao
1 pinch toasted sesame seeds, for garnish
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MOLE MADE EASY: Only 3 Ingredients & a jar of Doña Maria Sauce
When we don't have time to cook things from scratch, a good short-cut is much appreciated. That's what you get with this Mole Made Easy recipe. It starts with a jar of Doña Maria mole sauce, which you can find in the ethnic food aisle of your local grocery store, and you add only 3 ingredients to it. The result is a creamy, delicious mole sauce that you can mix with shredded chicken, pour over your favorite burrito, or make enchiladas with. The possibilities are endless. The hardest part of this recipe is opening the jar, and I'm not exaggerating! There's a trick to it, so be sure to check out the video. And read on for the easy recipe.
Mole Made Easy
1 jar Doña Maria mole sauce
4 cups chicken broth
1 round tablet of Mexican chocolate
2 Tbsp. peanut butter
Heat large skillet on stove with burner set to low. Empty jar of mole into skillet. (It's a thick paste, so it's helpful to use a butter knife to get it out.) Add 4 cups of chicken broth and raise heat to medium high. Stir and break up pieces of paste until it's dissolved into chicken broth. The sauce will begin to thicken as it cooks. Break Mexican chocolate into smaller pieces using a serrated knife, then add chocolate to pan and let it melt into the sauce. Add in peanut butter. Lower heat and stir continually until all the ingredients are melted in and you're left with a smooth sauce. Enjoy this delicious mole sauce while it's hot.
*Mole thickens as it cooks, so cook longer for a thicker sauce, or add more chicken broth or water if you like it more runny.
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'Weeknight' mole poblano with pork tenderloin and limey lima beans
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***RECIPE, FEEDS 2-3***
An approx. 1 lb (454g) pork tenderloin
4-5 garlic cloves, peeled and lightly crushed
1-2 large shallots, peeled and roughly chopped
2 canned chipotle peppers
1 teaspoon peanut butter or tahini
1 teaspoon (at most) cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon (at most) ground cloves
3/4 teaspoon flour
1 teaspoon tomato paste
1-2 tablespoons any fruit preserves
salt
pepper
oil
2 tablespoons butter
toasted sesame seeds (optional)
For the beans:
6 oz (170g) bag frozen lima beans
1-2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
1 lime
fresh cilantro (optional)
salt
pepper
sugar
Trim silverskin off the pork and season with salt and pepper. Heat a non-stick or well-seasoned cast iron pan to medium, and put in a generous coating of oil. Lift the pork into the pan with tongs and keep moving it constantly as you sear all sides — imagine mopping up the oil with the meat. Once all sides have decent color, add in the butter, garlic and shallots, and reduce heat to medium-low. Cook the pork, flipping it frequently in the butter, until the interior temperature is 145ºF/63ºC — about 15 minutes total cooking time for a 1 lb tenderloin. Remove the meat and let it rest.
Stir the chipotles into the garlic and shallots and fry them for a minute. Do likewise with the following things, in order: the peanut butter, cocoa powder, remaining spices, flour and tomato paste. Deglaze with at least a cup of water and allow the sauce to simmer and reduce until it's quite thick. Turn the heat off, stir in the fruit preserves, and taste for seasoning. Either eat the sauce chunky, puree it, or push it through a sieve.
Transfer the sauce to a bowl and give the pan a quick rinse. Over medium, heat the sesame oil and stir in the frozen lima beans. When they're thawed and just starting to brown, turn off the heat, grate in the zest of the lime and squeeze in at least half the juice. Stir in salt, pepper and a pinch of sugar to taste. Stir in some fresh cilantro leaves at the last second.
Slice the pork against the grain, reheat the sauce in the microwave if necessary and spoon it generously over the meat (hot sauce will reheat the meat for you). Scatter sesame seeds over the sauce (optional) and serve with the lima beans.
EASY CHICKEN MOLE RECIPE | DONA MARIA MOLE
Ingredients needed
11 chicken thighs
2 tbsp chicken flavor bouillon
1 jar Dona Maria mole sauce (8.25oz)
1 tbsp peanut butter
2 cups of chicken broth from the chicken broth
Boil chicken thighs and add chicken bouillon
In a blender add mole sauce, 1 tbsp peanut butter 1 cup chicken broth (from boiling the chicken)
And if need to add additional 1/2 cup till mole is smooth but not watery
Add mole to a pot low heat and add cooked chicken thighs. Mix well and Add additional (1cup of broth to mole)
Cook 20 min low heat
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How to Make Traditional Mole Poblano for Cinco De Mayo
Margarita Villegas Leal talks about celebrating Cinco de Mayo in her hometown of Puebla and shows us how to make mole poblano the traditional way.
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How to make MOLE POBLANO From SCRATCH, The BEST Step BY Step Recipe + SECRET TIPS!!!
Ingredients for Mole Poblano
2 1/2 Ibarra Chocolate bars
6 mulato Chiles or Ancho chiles
6 Pasilla chiles
3 Chipotle chiles
1/2 cup of raisins
1/2 cup of sesame seeds
1/2 cup raw peanuts (no salt- not roasted)
1/4 cup of almonds
1/2 cup of gamesa animal cookies
1 platano macho (plantain)
1 piloncillo (total used was 1/4) OR 1/4 cup of sugar
6 garlic cloves
1/2 large onion or 1 med onion
1 tbsp salt + Extra
1/2 cinnamon stick
1/2 Tbsp cumin seeds
3 pieces of clove
1/2 tsp anis seeds
1/2 tsp coriander seeds
1 cup of lard + extra
1 corn tortilla
To prepare mole
1 to 2 cups of mole paste
3 to 4 cup of chicken broth
1 whole boiled chicken
Toasted sesame seeds
Step 1
Remove seeds from mulato and pasilla chiles (Save mulato seeds to toast in step 3)
Toast mulato and Padilla chiles
Soak in warm water 20 mins until soft
Fry chipotle chiles in 3 tbsp lard until fully- place in same bowl of soaking chiles
Step 2 Frying medium heat
Warm 1/2 cup lard
Fry raisins until fluffy then place in a bow of warm water (save 1/3 cup of raisin water)
Fry tortillas, garlic, onion, peanuts (10 minutes, almonds (15 secs), animal cookings until golden color, plantain until soft
Step 3 Toast on medium heat (continuously stir)
Toast following ingredients for 10 to 15 secs- Cinnamon stick, anis seeds, cloves, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, mulato Chile seeds, then set to the side
Toast 1 tsp salt + sesame seeds (save some for garnish)
Step 4 blend spice
Blend toasted spices first- cinnamon , anis seeds, clove, coriander seeds, sesame seeds, mulato Chile seeds
Add raisin + water, plantain, animal cookies, peanuts, almonds, garlic, onion, chiles + chili water
Blend slowly and starting picking speed.
⚠️‼️Suggestion
My blender was over worked! Try step 4 in batches of 3 to assure a smooth blend ????
If using a different blender than a vitamix save 3/4 of a cup of raisin water and 1 cup of Chile water to assist your blend as needed. Not to worry the excess water will dissipate when cooking. Add 15 minutes to cook and stirring time. You got this corazón!
Step 5 cooking on medium heat mostly (Constantly stirring once mole paste touches the pot)
Add 1/2 cup of lard to pot allow to warm up and then add your mole paste
Cook 15 minutes while constantly to avoid burning and even cooking
In a bowl of warm water add desired chocolate bars + piloncillo once dissolved add to mole pot
Cook another 10 to 15 minutes taste and adjust chocolate and piloncillo as needed
Once you achieve desired sweetness add salt adjust to taste and continue storing to complete 45 minutes of stirring
Last 5 to 10 minutes switch heat to low and continue stirring amoricito, don’t quit, you got this babe.
Once paste is cooked set in a bowl and allow to cool a few hours
Place in an air tight container or small freezer bag in portions
If kept clean will last in refrigerator 3+ months
Will last in freezer 6 months to a year if not more ????
Tips‼️
Have a lot of fun when making this recipe ????
If you see smoke while frying or toasting lower temperature
Please watch video for SECRET TIP to the most flavorful way to cook mole
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