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Oaxacan · Sauce / condiment
Coloradito Mole
The gateway mole: guajillo, tomato, sesame, almonds, raisins and chocolate cooked into a sauce that is sweet, mildly hot and the colour of terracotta. Spoon it over chicken, eggs or tortilla chips with fresh cheese.
- YieldServes 4 to 6
- Hands-on50 min
- Total1 h 28 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
- 45 gdried guajillo chiles, stems removed (about 6)
- 600 mlwater, to cover the chiles for soaking; 480 ml of the liquid is kept
- 900 gtomatoes, chopped (about 5 cups)
- 60 mlwater, for cooking the tomatoes
- 75 gsesame seeds
- 2 tbspground cinnamon
- 25 gbreadcrumbs
- 1 tspdried oregano
- 1 tspdried thyme
- 8whole black peppercorns
- 6whole cloves
- 35 graisins
- 70 graw almonds
- 100 gsmall white onion, quartered
- 35 ggarlic cloves, peeled
- 3 tbspvegetable oil
- 184 gMexican chocolate, 2 bars, chopped
- to tastesea salt
- 720 mlchicken stock, 3 cups
- 2 leavesbay leaves
- 2 leaveshoja santa leaves
To serve
- 100 gqueso fresco, crumbled, to serveoptional
- 6eggs, fried or poached, to serveoptional
- 600 gcooked chicken, to serveoptional
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