You ever want turkey that goes boom? Take one of the breasts, shred, and make turkey mole enchiladas. This sauce works great in pork or chicken tacos as well.
Don’t let the long ingredients list intimidate you, while this sauce is a bit time consuming this recipe makes enough for leftovers and multiple uses so you get a lot of bang for your time-buck.
Ingredients:
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 2 cups good orange juice
- 1 1/4 lbs yellow onion (diced)
- 1/2 cup almonds (chopped)
- 6 garlic cloves (chopped)
- 4 teaspoons cumin
- 4 teaspoons coriander seeds
- 4 ounces dried pasilla chiles (tops chopped of and cleaned of seeds)
- 1 ounce dried guajillo chiles (tops chopped of and cleaned of seeds)
- 1/4 cup golden raisins
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dried Mexican oregano
- 2.5 ounces of pumpkin seeds (out of their shell)
- 1 3/1 ounce disk Mexican chocolate (see example here) broken into individual triangles
Directions:
First, in a small side pot combine the chicken broth and the orange juice. Bring to a simmer for about 15-20 minutes and allow it to reduce.
In a different, larger pot, heat the olive oil and saute the onions till the develop a deep brown caramelization (about 20 minutes). Once the onions are ready, reduce the heat to low-medium and add the almonds, garlic, cumin and coriander seeds. Mix and combine these for about 5 minutes in the warm pot. Once these are combined, add in your cleaned chiles and allow these to soften for an additional 5 minutes.
You now have two pots, and really most of the difficult work done. At this point, take your OJ and chicken broth mixture and pour into your chile pot. Add in your raisins and oregano at this point as well. Bring this all to a simmer and cover for 30 minutes.
Once the mixture has simmered for 30 minutes, cut off the heat and add in your chocolate disk pieces. Mix well and let stand for 15 minutes.
Take your mixture and pour it into a blender. Blend this really well in order to get it as creamy as possible and break up any almond or garlic bits that remain. Salt and Pepper to taste. Viola!