Mole poblano coating chicken with sesame seeds in a bowl. - Marcos Castillo/Shutterstock If you've heard that Mexican mole sauce is made from a surprisingly sweet ingredient — chocolate — well, you've ...

Here's how hard it is to make mole negro sauce: Most Mexican restaurants I've eaten at over the years totally suck at it. Far from a simple savory Mexican chocolate sauce, mole should be a rich world ...

This technique of poaching dark-meat chicken until silky and tender works with any mole sauce and leaves you with enough chicken stock to make soup. Simply strain the leftover stock into airtight ...

Very often when encountering the word “mole” on a Mexican restaurant menu, the accompanying description (a rich, reddish-brown sauce) is a vague palliative that oversimplifies what is basically a ...

Editor's note: Mexican mole is a complex and aromatic sauce with ingredients including chili peppers, chocolate, spices, nuts, and sometimes fruits. The result is a rich, velvety sauce with a ...