mr. saturday night special.

Saturday? Mole rojo from my oldest cookbook, Coyote Cafe, just now finally starting to fall apart. Somehow the only ingredients we're lacking are chicken and celery.

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mole rojo.

caldo de pollo (makes about 4x as much as you need, but then you've got leftover chicken broth)
1 chicken

2 celery ribs

2 carrots

1 onion

1 head garlic

1 clove

1/2 tsp ground allspice
1 tsp thyme

couple grinds black pepper

mole
18-24 dried chiles, comprised of
mild new mexican chiles

ancho chiles

pasilla chiles

mulato chiles

I used 18 mild new mexicans, 3 pasilla, and 3 mulato b/c that's what I had

5 tomatoes, charred under the broiler for 5 minutes

1/3 cup sesame seeds, toasted carefully

1 cup toasted almonds

1/2 cup currants, soaked in boiling water for 30 minutes, water discarded

1/8 tsp ground cloves

1/4 tsp ground allspice
1/2 tsp cinnamon

3 tbsp butter
20g barely sweetened chocolate
20g slightly sweeter chocolate

pinch of ghost pepper salt if anyone complains about the "lack of heat"

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