Homemade Mole Sauce Recipe

Total Time: 70 minutes

Cuisine: Mexican

Ingredients:

  • tomato
  • salt
  • makki ka atta (yellow corn meal flour)
  • chicken stock
  • raisins
  • cloves garlic
  • chipotle peppers
  • onion
  • cinnamon stick (dalchini)
  • peanuts (moongphali)
  • dark chocolate
  • black pepper powder
  • cloves (laung)
  • butter
  • star anise
  • dried oregano

Instructions:

  • To begin making the Homemade Mole Sauce Recipe we will first, roast the tomatoes by heating a sauce pan with oil, add the whole tomatoes
  • In the meanwhile preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius for 10 minutes
  • Once the tomatoes roasted slightly and got light brown on skin, switch off the heat
  • Take a foil add the tomatoes and drizzle some olive oil and cover the foil and place it in the oven and roast them for about 15 minutes
  • In the same pan add some more oil, sliced onions and cloves of garlic and saute until it softens
  • Once the onions are sauted switch off the flame, allow it to cool down
  • Add them into a mixer along with star anise, cloves, cinnamon and raisins
  • Add little water to blitz it into a smooth paste
  • Keep it aside
  • Take the tomatoes out and chop them up and blitz them also along with toasted peanuts and chipotle chilies to a smooth paste
  • Let?s start to make the sauce
  • Heat the pan with butter once the butter starts to melt, add maize flour and keep whisking it to make a roux
  • Add chicken broth and mix well so that there are no lumps formed
  • Keep whisking till the sauce thickens
  • Add in the onion paste and tomato paste and bring it to a boil
  • Add in your seasonings and broken chocolate now and whisk well
  • Adjust the salt level and boil for 10 more minutes switch off the flame
  • Use the Homemade Mole Sauce to make Chicken mole sauce with brown sweet corn rice recipe to make a nice lunch meal for yourself