Rick Stein Chicken Mole Poblano Recipe | Mexican Inspired Mole

Ingredients

• 4-5 skinless chicken breasts
• 2 tbsp corn oil
• ½ tsp salt
• toasted sesame seeds. to serve.
• For the mole:
• 16 (about 200g) mulato or ancho chillies
• 4 pasilla chillies
• 30g stale baguette or white bread (about 1 slice)
• 50g sesame seeds
• 120g blanched almonds
• 1 tbsp coriander seeds
• 6 black peppercorns
• 5cm cinnamon stick
• 1 small ripe plantain or an unripe banana, peeled and sliced
• 130g raisins or currants
• 1 onion, sliced
• 1 garlic clove, roughly chopped
• pinch of ground cloves
• 1 tsp oregano
• 1 ltr chicken stock
• 100g dark chocolate (70–85% cocoa solids), chopped
• 1 ½ tsp salt