If you've heard that Mexican mole sauce is made from a surprisingly sweet ingredient — chocolate — well, you've unfortunately heard wrong. Sort of. While chocolate can be an ingredient in mole ...

Oaxacan mole is a flavorful, intricate sauce that captures the essence of Mexican culinary tradition. This classic dish ...

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An curved arrow pointing right. Indigenous women in Mexico still make mole sauce using ancient tools like the metate grinding stone. We visit chef Evangelina Aquino Luis of Nana Vira in Oaxaca to ...

Mole is not a sauce to add flavor to a dish—it is the dish. All other elements on the plate exist to eat with the mole: proteins, pure corn tamales, rice, sometimes beans, and corn tortillas.