Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, slow cooker chicken mole. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
A unique blend of spices and cocoa powder turns into a rich and complex mole sauce after a long simmer in the slow cooker. Along with the tender chicken, it's a great filler for soft tortillas, or as a dip with corn chips. In a blender, puree tomatoes, onion, ancho and chipotle chiles, almonds, raisins, chocolate, garlic, oil, cumin, and cinnamon until smooth.
Slow Cooker Chicken Mole is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Slow Cooker Chicken Mole is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook slow cooker chicken mole using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooker Chicken Mole:
- Take 2 lbs Boneless, skinless Chicken thighs
- Prepare 2 tsp Ground Black Pepper
- Make ready 1 (14.5 oz) Can of Diced Tomatoes
- Get 1 Medium Onion, diced
- Get 2 Dried Ancho Chiles, stemmed
- Get 2 Large Chipotle Chiles in Adobo Sauce, plus 1 tablespoon Adobo Sauce
- Get 1/2 Cup Sliced Almonds, roasted or not. Does not matter
- Make ready 1/3 Cup Bittersweet Chocolate, finely chopped
- Make ready 2-3 Cloves Garlic, diced
- Take 2 tbsp Olive Oil
- Make ready 1/4 tsp Ground Cumin
- Take 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
This chicken dish was absolutely delicious and simple. The mole whips up in a mini food processor and from there the assembly is easy. The most time consuming part of the recipe is skinning the chicken. This is also a gross job.
Steps to make Slow Cooker Chicken Mole:
- Season both sides of the chicken thighs with pepper and place them in the slow cooker.
- Place all of the remaining ingredients in a blender and blend on high until it is of a smooth consistency, about 1 to 2 minutes.
- Pour the Mole Sauce over the chicken in the slow cooker. Stir together the sauce and chicken.
- Cook on low for 6 hours. Check out the chicken. If you wish it to be more tender, then cook another 1-2 hours.
- Remove the chicken and the sauce into a bowl and then shred it with two forks.
- Enjoy!
Tips & Variations for Chicken Mole. Stovetop Variation: This chicken mole recipe can also be made on a stovetop, if you're in a hurry and don't want to go the slow cooker route. Combine all ingredients in a slow cooker. Chicken may be served intact with sauce spooned over, or you may shred the chicken using two forks and stir into the sauce before using as a taco/tortilla filling, or as a dip for chips. Mole is really a catchall term for a Mexican sauce that usually contains a fruit—like raisins—spices like black pepper, cinnamon, and cumin, nuts, seeds, and even chocolate.
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