Name: Tex-Mex Mole
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons olive oil; 2 garlic cloves, minced; 1/4 onion, sliced; 2 tomatoes, peeled and quartered; 1 ancho chile, stemmed and seeded; 1 guajillo or pasilla chile, stemmed and seeded; 1 ounce semisweet chocolate; 1/4 teaspoon sesame seeds; 1 teaspoon peanut butter; 1/2 teaspoon sugar; 2 saltine crackers; 1 cup chicken broth; Salt

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Tex-Mex MoleCookbook cover image courtesy of Random House

Lots of Tex-Mex restaurants use bottled mole pastes from Mexico such as Doña Maria brand. Tricks of the trade include reconstituting the paste with chicken broth instead of water and boosting the flavor with peanut butter. Here's a simple homemade mole that tastes even better than the bottled paste.

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