Holy Mole! This Chicken Mole recipe is out of this world, boasting tender chicken in a rich, thick, mildly spicy sauce ...

Mole sauce is a Oaxacan classic that comes in several forms, but chocolate is key in mole poblano. This is the best type of chocolate to use for it.

7 Mole Sauce Recipes to Up Your Mexican Food Game. Hot chiles and rich chocolate makes this Mexican delicacy as fascinating as it is intricate – but there's so much more to a mole than that.

3 Margaritas: the lightest mole of the four, this sauce is noticeably chocolate-forward with mild spice. Because of its rich flavor, pair mole with red wine or dark Mexican beer, like Modelo negro, to ...

Admittedly, making mole sauce from scratch “can feel intimidating because it’s such a complex sauce. It can have anywhere from 40 to 50 ingredients,” Thomas says.

This mole negro recipe features dried pasilla, ancho, and morita chiles with toasted almonds, pecans, and peanuts, plus dried fruits and spices for a touch of sweetness, along with Mexican chocolate.

And thus are upward of 20 separate ingredients — nearly 30 for Santiago’s mole negro, 25 for the mole rojo recipe below — brought together by ancient alchemy to become a sauce.