Easy Mole Chicken Drumsticks offer a festive Mexican touch to simple baked chicken legs with a spicy chile, sesame and chocolate based sauce.
Easy Mole Chicken Drumsticks
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
Easy Mole Chicken Drumsticks is my recipe of the day with the Choctoberfest blogging group, Which includes a giveaway for a KitchenAid mixer over and above all the delicious recipes.
I love making easy chicken dinners. Besides that, the sauce is great for chocolate lovers in an unexpected way. You will love this on rice, with black beans, or inside tortillas.
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Easy Mole Chicken Drumsticks
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Easy Mole Chicken Drumsticks
Easy Mole Chicken Drumsticks
Ingredients
Chicken:
- 6 chicken drumsticks
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- salt and black pepper
- 2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds (for garnish)
Quick Mole Sauce (Yield 2 cups)
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 3 tablespoons New Mexico chili powder
- 1.8 ounces Ibarra Mexican chocolate (half a wheel, chopped)
- 2 tablespoons masa harina
- 1 tablespoon raisins
- 1 tablespoon tahini (sesame seed paste)
- 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon Mexican oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- pinch cloves
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Rub chicken legs with oil and season with salt and black pepper.
- Place chicken on a baking sheet and bake for 35-45 minutes or until the internal temperature is 165F.
- While chicken bakes, whisk and simmer mole sauce ingredients in a saucepan until slightly thickened, about 15 minutes.
- Add cooked chicken legs to the mole sauce, coating the chicken.
- Gently heat through, about ten minutes more.
- Garnish with toasted sesame seeds.
- Serving suggestion: serve chicken with rice, black beans, and tortillas.
Notes
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Wooohooooo another savory chocolate recipe. Thanks Sue.
OMG this is a five-star recipe!! I considerably reduced the amount of chilli powder, but otherwise followed the instructions to the letter. Very easy to make, but the full flavour of a rich mole sauce. Thanks for sharing, this is so going to be a keeper!
Made as an extra recipe for the Amazin race.