Chicken slow-cooked in a mole sauce with chilies and dark chocolate.
3 large chicken breasts, frozen or fresh
28 oz can of crushed tomatoes
1 4 oz can diced green chilies
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 onion, diced
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 tsp balsamic vinegar
1/2 oz unsweetened dark chocolate
Place chicken breasts in a crockpot. Combine crushed tomatoes, chilies, chili powder, cumin, salt, sugar, onion and garlic. Pour over chicken. Cover crockpot and cook on low for 8 hours. Shred the chicken with two forks. It should fall apart very easily. Stir in vinegar and cut-up chocolate until chocolate has melted completely. Serve on top of diced cooked yams or cooked rice. Also great in quesadillas or wraps, or in a toasted bun as a sandwich.
Lindsay at Eighty Twenty gave me the great idea of serving mole sauce with yams. I had always wanted to try it with chicken but never thought of yams before. Guess what? The boys…ate…yams!! The chicken mole tasted so good that they didn’t even mind the yams in there at all. I decided to cook the chicken in the crockpot, because it just seemed like the right thing to do. It turned out to be a great decision. It makes this meal incredibly easy to make, and the flavours have a chance to really blend together nicely. I was very impressed with this recipe, and so was everyone else in my family. Tony had a second dinner of it once the kids went to bed (always a good sign), and took some to work the next day. You might be skeptical about putting chocolate in the sauce but chili and dark chocolate are such an unexpectedly delicious combination, as I learned from my Pumpkin Chili recipe. Don’t leave the chocolate out; it really adds depth and flavour to this dish.
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This truly looks wonderful. I love the idea of serving the chicken on top of yams – they’re one of my favorite foods, and I usually instantly like a recipe if they are included 🙂 What a great combination of flavors this must be.I’m also on the hunt for weeknight/crock pot dishes, so this is great!
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This looks great – bookmarking it!
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This looks so yummy. I’ve always been afraid to try chicken mole, partially because I heard traditional mole can have up to 25 ingredients. But my fiance loves it and I can’t find a good mole anywhere around here. I will definitely be trying this. Thanks so much!
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stop it, I love this and am copying it!
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Just made this last night and it was SOOO good! A recipe everyone loves with mostly pantry ingredients where you don’t have to pre-thaw the chicken? Priceless. Thanks for this keeper!
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I made this and loved it! I just posted it in my “Your Recipe – My Kitchen” post with a link back to you. Stop by and see.Danielle
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This looks soooo good. I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for sharing. I’m now following your blog. 🙂
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If we have crappy weather again next week, this is definitely going on my meal plan! Looks delish.
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I made this earlier this week and it was a hit. Thanks for the great recipes!!
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Hi, this recipe looked delicious but the result wasn’t what I expected. The sauce wasn’t very chocolate-y or spicy, though I followed the recipe exactly (I even added extra chocolate). The chicken was good, but the sauce definitely wasn’t mole 😦
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Sorry to hear it didn’t meet your expectations. This recipe was made to suit my family’s tastes; they don’t like spicy food so I went easy on the spice, and I thought they might be put off by a strong chocolate flavour so there is only a hint of it. Of course feel free to add more spices and chocolate to your preference.
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This feels like destiny..I was just planning what I could do with chicken breasts still in the freezer and some just bought yams. Could I use unsweetened cocoa in place of chocolate?
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Yes that should work. I’ve used cocoa powder in Chili before and it’s really good, so I’d imagine it would be great in this as well.
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