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Chicken enmoladas with easy mole sauce

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  • 2 tbsp salt
  • 4 quart water
  • ½ whole onion
  • 6 cloves garlic cloves
  • 2 lb chicken breast
Bring 4 quarts of water to a boil over medium-high heat. Add salt, half an onion, six garlic cloves and two pounds of chicken breast; return to a boil, skimming off the impurities.
Reduce to medium, cover and cook 20 minutes.
  • reserved broth
Remove the chicken to cool and reserve the broth for the sauce.
  • ½ tablet Mexican chocolate
Dissolve half a tablet of Mexican chocolate in the reserved broth.
Chocolate into the broth
  • oil
  • ½ whole onion
Heat oil in a small frying pan over medium-low and fry half an onion until transparent; transfer to the blender.
  • 1 whole tomato
  • 2 cloves garlic cloves
Fry one tomato face down with two garlic cloves until the tomato softens; transfer to the blender without squeezing.
  • 15 whole salting crackers
Fry 15 crackers a few seconds per side, adding oil as needed; they thicken the sauce. Transfer to the blender.
  • 8 whole guajillo or New Mexico chile pods
Clean and seed eight guajillo or New Mexico chile pods and fry lightly until soft, then put them into the broth. Do not burn them or the sauce turns bitter.
  • ½ tsp ground cumin
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 cup mole Doña Maria
Add the chilies and all the broth with the chocolate to the blender, with half a teaspoon each of ground cumin and cinnamon; blend smooth. Add one cup of Doña Maria mole, broken up, and blend again.
  • salt
Pour back into the pot over medium-low heat and stir constantly until it thickens and simmers. Taste for salt.
Reduce to the lowest heat and keep stirring 5 to 10 minutes.
  • oil
Shred the chicken while oil heats for the tortillas.
  • corn tortillas
Dip each corn tortilla in the hot oil and fry lightly 5 to 10 seconds, until it begins to blister.
  • queso fresco
  • onion
Spread mole on the plate. Fill each tortilla with chicken, queso fresco and onion, roll, and set on the sauce; four per plate. Cover with more mole.
Rolling and garnishing the enmoladas
  • crema mexicana
  • purple onion
  • cilantro
Garnish with crema mexicana, queso fresco, purple onion and cilantro.