Today is an excuse for me to make something special as a way to pay tribute to my paternal side of the family and heritage.
I felt like Mole ("mowlay"). It's a thick sauce, consistency of gravy, with chicken and it's delicious.
The real sauce consists of many different ingredients, such as peanuts, spices, chiles, chocolate, and some may use coffee grains or cold coffee. I have read that it takes a long time to cook the sauce when made from scratch, something like 8 to 12 hours. Mine is out of jar and I modify it to my liking.
I cook my chicken breasts first (you can use your favorite chicken pieces), in an iron skillet.
Once it's cooked, set aside.
In same iron skillet, add the following:
1 tblsp of cooking oil;
2 tblsp of creamy peanut butter, your favorite brand;
1/2 jar of Mole; and
1 cup of water.
Reminds me of making gravy without flour and I like to use the juices from chicken so I always use the same skillet.
Lower the heat, medium to low heat works fine. Mix above ingredients together until you see a thick paste like consistency then gradually add water to sauce while you keep mixin water into sauce. I sometimes use a whisk.
Work the lumps out, just like you do when making gravy.
Add cooked chicken back into iron skillet, with it's broth.
While Mole finishes cooking on low heat, cook rice to your liking in a different sauce pan.
I brown my rice, then add minced garlic, cumin seeds, and sliced onion-powders of both work just fine too.
I add tomato sauce, water, salt, and pepper then let my rice cook.
Once the rice was done then it was time to serve my favorite and wonderful Mole.
Below is the jar I mentioned above:
Dinner was served. I enjoy my Mole with corn tortillas (store bought work just fine). I know people eat it Mole with bread, flour tortillas, or just a big spoon.
Today was a wonderful day for me and yum, I had Mole con arroz. Life is good.
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