Mole Sauce+

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Title: Mole Sauce+
Categories: Sauces
Yield: 1 Recipe

2 Dried New mexican red chili
-peppers or 2 teaspoons red
-pepper flakes, crushed
1 cn Whole peeled tomatoes, (16
-oz.)
1 sm Onion, quartered
2 Garlic cloves, halved
2 tb Sesame seeds
1/2 c Almonds
1/4 c Raisins
1/4 ts Ground cloves
1/4 ts Ground cinnamon
1/4 ts Ground coriander
1 tb Water
2 tb Vegetable oil
1 c Chicken broth
1 oz Bittersweet chocolate, or
-1/4 cup semisweet chocolate
-chips

If using dried chilies, remove the seeds and stem.
Tear chili peppers into chunks and place in bowl of
food processor or blender. (Or measure in red-pepper
flakes.) Drain and chop 4 canned tomatoes, reserving
remaining tomatoes and juice to add later to chili.
place chopped tomatoes in food processor or blender.
add onion, garlic, sesame seeds, almonds, raisins,
cloves, cilnnamon and coriander. Pulse on and off
until ingredients are chopped fine. Add water. Process
until mixture is smooth. Heat oil in saucepan. Add
pureed mixture. Cook, stirring often, for 10 minutes.
Add chicken broth and chocolate. Cook over medium-low
heat, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes.

Mary Riemerman

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