Chicken in home-style mole poblano
- Low in lactose
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
- Good for lunch
Less suited for dinner.
Chicken breast in a dark Mexican sauce of chilli, sesame and unsweetened chocolate.
4 servingsFinal yield 1,900 g
Ingredients
- 700 gChicken, broiler or fryers, breast, skinless, boneless, meat only, raw
- 18 gPeppers, hot chile, sun-dried
- 35 gBaking chocolate, unsweetened, squares
- 35 gSeeds, sesame seeds, whole, dried
- 500 gTomatoes, red, ripe, canned, packed in tomato juice
- 160 gOnions, raw
- 15 gGarlic, raw
- 650 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
- 25 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
- 5 gSalt, table
Method
- Soak chilli in hot water 15 minutes and drain. Toast sesame in a dry pan 3 minutes.
- Fry onion and garlic in oil at 170 °C for 6 minutes; add chilli and tomatoes 4 minutes.
- Blend with sesame, chocolate, 350 g water and salt into a smooth sauce.
- Put chicken in sauce, add remaining water and simmer at 90 °C for 25 minutes to 74 °C.
- Rest 5 minutes and serve chicken with all the sauce.
Recipe tradition
Not yet verified
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Nutrition
Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.
Whole recipe
- Energy
- 1,710.9 kcal
- Protein
- 177.3 g
- Fat
- 81.6 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 68 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 27.6 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 21.5 g
- Sodium
- 2,892 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 7.2 g
Per serving
- Energy
- 427.7 kcal
- Protein
- 44.3 g
- Fat
- 20.4 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 17 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 6.9 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 5.4 g
- Sodium
- 723 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 1.8 g
Per 100 g of finished food
- Energy
- 90 kcal
- Protein
- 9.3 g
- Fat
- 4.3 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 3.6 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 1.5 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 1.1 g
- Sodium
- 152.2 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.38 g
Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.
A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.
Calculation limitations
- Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
- The final yield is an editorial estimate.
- The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
- Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
- Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.
Allergens
Contains: Sesame
May contain: Gluten, Peanuts, Soy, Milk, Tree nuts
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
Food data sources
- USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal