Chicken Mole Recipe

Ingredients

6 – 8 chicken thighs – skinned and boned

1 ½ large onions

6 small cloves garlic

2 habanero peppers, seeded and chopped

Zest from 1 orange

½ cup orange juice

2 cups chicken broth

1 medium size can of organic diced tomatoes

4 squares good, bittersweet chocolate

½ teaspoon cumin

½ teaspoon coriander

½ teaspoon cinnamon

½ cup raw almonds

½ cup chopped cilantro

6 tablespoons olive oil

Preparation

1. In large saucepan sauté sliced onions until golden over medium high heat (about 15-18 minutes) in salt and pepper and 1 tablespoon olive oil. Add almonds and pressed garlic, sauté until almonds are cooked (about 3-4 minutes).

   2. Add another tablespoon olive oil and the peppers and sauté a few minutes. Then add the spices, orange zest, tomatoes, orange juice and some chicken broth, cover and cook about ½ hour.

   3. Put through a blender and return to pan (or use an immersion blender in pan). Mix in chocolate.

   4. Meanwhile brown chicken thighs in olive oil until cooked on the outside, with salt and pepper. Add juices from the cooked chicken to the other pan.

   5. At the end of step 4, add ingredients of one pan to the other. Cover well and cook on very low for about an hour.

   Serve over rice with chopped cilantro.

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