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Mole Poblano, Thirty Ingredients
Guadalupe Xicotencatl
Head chef, Fonda Doña Chelo, Puebla, MX
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Mole Poblano, Thirty Ingredients

1 days total300 min hands-onServes 10Hard

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Every ingredient is fried separately before anything is blended, which is why it takes two days.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Comal or heavy pan, Blender, Fine sieve, Large cazuela
Allergens
Nuts, Sesame, Gluten
Method
46 steps · 34 photographed · 12 filmed
Components
4 made from scratch
Films
3, 21 min

4 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Toasted chillies

Film

Ancho, mulato and pasilla seeded, toasted briefly on a comal and soaked, keeping the soaking water tasted first.

Ten seconds too long on the comal and the whole mole is bitter, and no amount of chocolate or sugar will pull it back.

  • Ancho chillies000 g
  • Mulato chillies000 g
Steps
6
Time
1 h
Hands-on
40 min

Makes 500 g soaked chilli

Up to 1 day ahead

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Fried solids

Film

Nuts, seeds, raisins, plantain, tortilla and bread each fried alone in lard and drained.

Fried together the small things burn while the plantain is still raw. Separately is slower and it is the only way.

  • Almonds000 g
  • Peanuts000 g
Steps
9
Time
1.5 h
Hands-on
75 min

Makes 800 g

Up to 1 day ahead

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The blend and the sieve

Film

Everything blended in batches with stock and pushed through a fine sieve, twice.

One pass leaves grit from the seeds and skins. Two passes are what turn it from a paste into something that coats.

  • Toasted chillies000 g
  • Fried solids000 g
Steps
7
Time
2 h
Hands-on
60 min

Makes 3 L · keeps 5 days, freezes 6 months

Better made 2 days ahead

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The fry-back

The sieved mole poured into hot lard in a cazuela and cooked down until it darkens and the fat rises.

Un-fried mole tastes raw and separate. This step is what marries thirty ingredients into one flavour.

  • Sieved mole000 g
  • Lard000 g
Steps
5
Time
1.5 h
Hands-on
40 min

Makes 2.5 L

Same day as blending

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WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Ancho chillies000 g
  • Mulato chillies000 g
  • Pasilla chillies000 g
  • Chipotle000 g
  • Almonds000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 21 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING9:00

Chillies for mole: ancho, mulato, pasilla and what a good one bends like

TECHNIQUE6:00

Toasting chillies to the exact colour

KIT6:00

Blenders, sieves and the cazuela

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 46 STEPS

34 photographed · 12 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 34 of the 46 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 12 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: toasting chillies without any bitterness — step 28 of 46.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 40 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Guadalupe Xicotencatl watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Tasting the soaking water before you use it

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Frying every solid separately

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Two sieve passes, never one

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The frying order, how far to toast each chilli before it turns bitter, and the sieve passes that make it velvet.

Written by Guadalupe Xicotencatl. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

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NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

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