Chicken enchiladas with red mole sauce

Chicken enchiladas with red mole sauce

Try a traditional Mexican favourite with this spicy and varied recipe

Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 50 mins

Freezable

Method

  1. Put the chicken in the pan, then pour in 300ml cold water. Bring to the boil, then reduce down to a simmer and cook for 20 mins, turning once, until the chicken is cooked through. Remove chicken from water (saving the liquid) and when it's cool enough to handle, shred with your fingers or a fork.
  2. Halve the chillies, pull out the seeds and discard. Place in a small bowl and cover with boiling water. Leave to soak for 20 mins until softened, then discard the water, roughly chop the chillies then put into a blender.
  3. Heat a frying pan and tip in the tomato. Cook for 5 mins, until the tomato skins start to blister and turn brown. Add to the blender. Heat the oil or lard in the same frying pan and cook the onion, garlic and almonds for 5 mins. Stir in the raisins, oregano, cumin and cinnamon, then cook 2 mins more until the onion is softened, the almonds are golden and the raisins have puffed up. Tip into the blender with 100ml of the chicken poaching liquid and give it a good whizz.
  4. Pour the mixture back into the pan, stir in 350ml of the poaching liquid and chocolate and let it simmer for 20 mins. To serve, soften the tortillas in a microwave for 30 secs then pile the chicken on top, spoon over the sauce and roll up. Serve scattered with coriander leaves, limes and more chopped almonds.

Per serving

569 kcalories, protein 29g, carbohydrate 69g, fat 21 g, saturated fat 6g, fibre 4g, sugar 4g, salt 3.27 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2005.

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  • 07 December 2007

    Sazzi rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Very tasty!

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  • 16 July 2008

    Maud rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    I must have done something wrong....

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  • 23 May 2009

    grizzlyjoy rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    I tweaked the recipe quite a bit, including baking the enchilladas in the oven. Overall yummy recipe and with mushrooms or peppers it goes miles! Chocolate and chilli are a good combo but I feel it needs a magic ingredient to finish it off...

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  • 23 April 2010

    JOOLES rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I'm a little confused. The recipe states to simmer the chicken in 300ml of water. This you need to keep hold of for the recipe, but that in the end uses 450ml, so where does the extra 150ml come from? I think also I'd be tempted to use red kidney beans, red pepper and some mushrooms to bulk it out a bit, to use some veg (healthy). I feel the chicken and sauce wouldn't be enough on its own. Lovely sounding recipe though and with a bit of tweaking id be happy to make this. I'd like to prove to my fella that these can be lovely. In the past he has bought these preprepared from the supermarket, i want to prove to him that home-made ones are sooo much better.

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  • 05 February 2011

    cupcakeshake rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    didn't think that it had much flavour.. very bland. wouldn't bother with the recipe again.

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  • 08 September 2011

    therookiechef rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This is superb, doesn't need bulking out, very filling served with a salsa. Re the water just poach chicken in more water and you're golden!

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  • 18 September 2011

    therookiechef commented on this recipe

    I've made this a couple of times now. I think the blandness may come if to much water is added, so be careful with this. I also found that using an ancho chili didnt really give it the necessary kick, it was much nicer with a regular red chili, anyone else find this?

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  • 07 July 2012

    cookie commented on this recipe

    The chicken will be bland and terrible from just reading the recipe. Poaching chicken is a mistake. It will have a terrible chickeny taste. Saute rather and use stock

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Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 50 mins

Freezable

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569 kcalories, protein 29g, carbohydrate 69g, fat 21 g, saturated fat 6g, fibre 4g, sugar 4g, salt 3.27 g

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