Mole Negro

Name: Mole Negro
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 1½ cups (350 ml)
Cuisine: Latin
Ingredients: about 3 chiles (6 g) Dried Chile; 10 g Ancho Chile; about 1½ chiles (2.5 g) Dried Chile; 1 Tbsp (15 ml) Vegetable Oil; about ½ onion (15 g) Onion; 1 clove minced (5 g) Garlic; 20 g Banana; about ½ tomato (20 g) Tomato; 15 g Tomatillo; about ⅔ cup (150 ml) Chicken Stock; 4 g Almonds; about 1 tsp (3 g) Sesame Seed; 2 g Pumpkin Seeds; pinch toasted (0.5 g) Allspice; pinch toasted (0.3 g) Clove; pinch Mexican cinnamon (0.5 g) Cinnamon; pinch peppercorns (0.3 g) Pepper; pinch (0.3 g) Star Anise; 30 g Chocolate; 5 g Raisins; 1/2 tsp piloncillo (3 g) Brown Sugar; 20 g Bread; 10 g Beef Trim; to taste Salt

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Adrián Torres recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Adrián Torres.

BRAISING SAUCE · CORNBREAD, SHORT RIB & TORTILLAS

A braising sauce for cornbread, short rib & tortillas.

Adrián Torres's rich mole negro.

On the jar

MOLE NEGRO

Method: stove
Yield: about 1½ cups
Ingredients: 24

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Vegetable Oil 15 mlChicken Stock 150 ml

Ingredients

Dried Chileabout 3 chiles (6 g)
Ancho Chile10 g
Dried Chileabout 1½ chiles (2.5 g)
Vegetable Oil1 Tbsp (15 ml)
Onionabout ½ onion (15 g)
Garlic1 clove minced (5 g)
Banana20 g
Tomatoabout ½ tomato (20 g)
Tomatillo15 g
Chicken Stockabout ⅔ cup (150 ml)
Almonds4 g
Sesame Seedabout 1 tsp (3 g)
Pumpkin Seeds2 g
Allspicepinch toasted (0.5 g)
Clovepinch toasted (0.3 g)
Cinnamonpinch Mexican cinnamon (0.5 g)
Pepperpinch peppercorns (0.3 g)
Star Anisepinch (0.3 g)
Chocolate30 g
Raisins5 g
Brown Sugar1/2 tsp piloncillo (3 g)
Bread20 g
Beef Trim10 g
Saltto taste

Method

This sauce is cooked on the stove. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Cook ingredients gently according to the published technique, adapted here as pantry quantities only.
Finish off heat; adjust seasoning.

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Provenance

Adrián Torres — published sauce recipes in the PantryFlex catalog. James Beard Emerging Chef 2026.

Adapted from a Adrián Torres recipe (Adrián Torres / StarChefs Maximo).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Adrián Torres / StarChefs Maximo (published as “Mole Negro”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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