Easy Chicken Mole
This picture of easy chicken mole does not do justice to this delicious sauce. It made the chicken fantastic.
Recipe makes 4 servings plus extra sauce.
Serving Size
4
Prep Time
20 minutes
Cook Time
1 hour
Total Time
1 hour, 20 minutes
Ingredients
The Mole Sauce:
- 1 jar Sauce Goddess Sticky Sweet or Sweet & Spicy Grilling sauce
- 1 oz dark chocolate, chopped fine
- 1 tsp cinnamon, ground
- 1/4 cup pecan pieces
- 1 garlic cloves, sliced
- 1/2 red pepper, diced
- 1 Tbsp light olive or avocado oil
The Chicken:
- 1 3 lb chicken split in half or quarters (or whatever cut you like)
- 1 Tbsp Sauce Goddess Latin Heat seasoning
Instructions
- Place the pecans, garlic and red pepper in a saute pan with the oil.
- Cook on medium low heat until pecans are toasty and garlic is cooked.
- Place all items in a blender with half the Sauce Goddess sauce.
- Puree to a thick consistency.
- Add remaining sauce from jar into saute pan previously used for nuts mixture.
- Warm on low.
- Add chocolate, cinnamon and nut puree.
- Stir to combine.
- Sprinkle Latin Heat on chicken pieces.
- Place in a hot pan.
- Brown on both sides lightly.
- Cover and place in a 350 degree oven for 30-40 minutes. Or until the chicken is 160 degrees.
- Top with sauce.
- Cook another 10 minutes until the sauce warms ad covers the chicken. And the chicken is 180 degrees.
