Toast and reconstitute chiles. Toast sesame seeds, chile seeds and almonds until dark brown. Grind (or use equivalent pre-ground) the cloves, peppercorns, cinnamon and oregano. Fry onion and garlic in a bit of oil. Combine all above ingredients in a blender or food processor with tomatoes and Ibarra mexican chocolate and puree thoroughly. Then fry the mole until the sauce changes color to a dark, brick red. The sauce will keep for a month in the fridge, and indefinitely frozen.

This kind of mole would traditionally be used over meat or chicken, garnished with a few extra toasted seeds, and eaten wrapped in tortillas with a serrano/onion/cilantro salsa cruda. It was also delicious over spinach and wild mushrooms, served similarly.

Chile-Heads Digest V2 #324

From the Chile-Heads recipe list. Downloaded from Glen's Mm Recipe Archive, http://www. Erols. Com/hosey.