Rick Martínez Makes Mole Negro | NYT Cooking

“I chose recipes that I felt were essential to my Mexican cooking journey - dishes from vastly different parts of the country - whose ingredients, methods and techniques have made me a better, more creative and fearless cook.” Rick Martínez is a cookbook author, New York Times contributor and a second-generation Mexican American. He shared the 11 regional Mexican specialties he adores most. Mole negro, a velvety black sauce that’s traditionally served over roasted poultry, is one of the dishes on that list.
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I fell in love with mole years ago. My mouth is watering!!!!

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I think I'm going to make this for my birthday dinner now... it looks SO GOOD!

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I need to learn how to make this, you have taken the fear out of homemade mole negro. Thank you Rick.

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I loved every aspect of this video. What a wonderful teacher! Loved learning about this dish.

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Looks great! Good insight on the culture and Chiles. Thanks Rick!

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I endeavor to find every different Mole'. Not that hard since most everybody makes it different but Mole' negros are the best.

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I legit felt jelly at the tasting! It looks so good ❤❤❤

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My mouth is watering! Great video!

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I can't wait to make this!

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I spent about 6 hrs making black mole via Rick Bayliss, so I’m excited about this!

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Daaang that makes me want some mole! Luckily I live in Texas where so many of our wonderful Mexican friends have delicious mole at their restaurants!

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😀😀I did rub the "something else" after dealing with chiles. I almost died laughing when he said it.

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Thanks for the tip on how to get rid of the burned flavor in the chilies! Not that I ever burned chilies on purpose before lol

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Love your recipes, you have never steered me wrong. As someone with a nut allergy - Can I leave them out? Maybe you have substitution? All the best🤗

[@scottscott4514]

One of the most critical steps in the making of mole negro is the toasting of the chiles. It is essential to darkly toast them, but to stop before the flesh becomes carbonized (which yields a bad, acrid result). Because grill temperature and conditions can vary so widely between grills, I would not recommend grilling the chiles for a fixed amount of time. The absolute most control over the chile toasting is affording by dry toasting them in small batches in a 12-inch skillet over medium heat (and by being patient). When the flesh turns from tobacco brown to dark chocolate brown as they are dry toasted (good ventilation is helpful here), the chile pieces can be removed from the skillet and reserved until toasting is completed. I also have questions about the rinsing of the chiles in water. If the chiles are properly toasted, the chile soaking water ought to have primarily deeply toasted flavors and less bitter flavors, in which case the soaking water is used in the preparation to preserve flavor.

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For those of us that don’t live by good (or any) markets, Is there a good online place to source the dried chilies?

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wow - where did you find the chilhuacle negros? I searched all around, and finally resorted to somewhat unsuccessfully growing them! great video

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'Mole Negro' is my new band name.

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I'm going to be "that guy." I chuckled when he said using the chilhuacles was almost like using dried fruits because chile peppers _are_ fruits. Ok, off soapbox. Anyway. This looks absolutely delicious. I can't make this myself because I can't easily get all of the ingredients. I can order them, but they're prohibitively expensive (on the order of $16 for three of the aforementioned chilhuacles negros). Instead I can imagine its deliciousness...

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some serious ASMR going on at 2:39 haha

[@drunkenfarmerjohn42]

I love mole negro on fries with some crema, cotija, and cilantro.

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How was mole made before modern electric blenders?

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With a mortar and pestle

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Can I make beef chili with that mole?

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MOLE WHAT!

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I'm surprised Rick is immune from toasting chilis. Anyone that grew up in a Mexican house can remember the burn in the back of your throat then their mom casually in the kitchen.

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Oh man, I guess I'll keep ordering mole from restaurants, too much work lol

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We Italians invented tomato sauce

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He's cooking in his own home...

[@tristanreid6347]

perhaps using a food processor instead of a blender, and then not adding the entirety of the chicken stock--i.e., making a paste instead and frying that as you might with thai chili paste, and then adding the chicken stock would make things less messy?

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[@mrzippykid088]

It looks sooo good. he should've made some sopita de arroz to go with it though 🥲 my favorite part of mole is mixing (more like drenching) the mole sauce with rice 😋

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the dry chillies were charred then washed theen rehydrated theeen cooked theeeNN blended THEN fried omg no that is too much work. I'll just order it. Somethings I do not need to make at home.

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No sabo ass, how does this pocho even get around ?

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Oh no, another mexican recipe destroy by Rick. Those chilis are burnt. Period.

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Agreed

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No offense but I am making this not the colonizer from Chicago's version.

[@republicoftexas4651]

For a flavor reference: Rick Bayless won Top Chef Masters with a black mole. He ripped a French mother sauce with it. Properly made mole is a flavor force to be reckoned with.