Chicken mole Recipe

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This is as simple as it gets. Delicious dish!
*2 tablespoons of lard or 3 oil
*2 semi heaping tablespoons of peanut butter
* 1 med onion
* 2 16 oz can of diced tomatoes ( 1 can in blender for just a few seconds)
* 1 tablespoon or ¼ Mexican sweet chocolate (sweet usually has cinnamon )
* 2 pkg. Chili seasoning mix
* 1 boiled chicken
* 4 cups of chicken broth
* salt to taste (careful) your chili mix has salt!
* No Mexican chocolate, you can use semi sweet and add 3/4teaspoon of cinnamon.

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees:
1 chicken cut up, or 5 or 6 chicken breast in 8 quart sauce pan add 1-1/2 to 2 quarts of water 1 teaspoon of salt.

Bring to a boil, turn fire down to low, cover, simmer about one hour. Strain liquid from chicken, set both aside to cool.

In same pot, heat oil and sauté onion till tender, add tomatoes, chocolate, peanut butter, chili mix. Stirring constantly add broth mix in well, let simmer 5 or 10 minutes. Remove bones (optional) And add chicken back into pot, bake 45 min. to 1 hour. Serve with rice and beans, flour or corn tortillas.

If you like a stronger mole sauce use 1 can of tomatoes.

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