Holy frijole mole
This stuff is awesome. You can substitute tofu or cooked potatoes for the beans, or just eat the sauce over rice. Or skip the rice and just eat it with a spoon. It’s that good. And the color is absolutely amazing, a deep, rich, yummy almost-black brown.
It’s good on eggs, too.
It was originally inspired by a South Beach Chicken Mole recipe, but I like this name better…as in, “Holy frijole mole, Batman, this stuff is dynamite!”
1 large onion, chopped
1 large bell pepper, seeded and chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 T chili powder
1/2 t cinnamon
1/2 t cloves
14-oz can petite diced or crushed tomatoes
2-1/2 C cooked red, pinto, or black beans
2 T unsweetened peanut butter
2 T Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa powder
Cayenne pepper or dried chipotle, to taste
Salt to taste
2 scallions, chopped
Handful of cilantro leaves
In a large skillet, saute the onion and bell pepper in the oil until the onion is translucent. Add the garlic, chili powder, cinnamon, and cloves, and cook for a minute. Add the peanut butter, cocoa, tomatoes (do not drain), and beans, and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes, stirring once in a while. Add pepper and salt, garnish with chopped scallion and cilantro, and serve over brown rice.
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April 14th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Would this be good over chicken?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I just annotated it with a link to the original version, which WAS chicken mole. We were eating it so often, I got tired of chicken. I never got tired of the mole sauce, though.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
[...] This originally came from a South Beach cookbook, and it’s hard to believe it’s diet food. We’ve substituted pork chops for the chicken occasionally, and I documented the vegetarian version with a much better name: Holy Frijole Mole. [...]
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Barbara Kinsolver has a Frijole guacamole recipe made with green beens in her Animal Vegetable Miracle book and website. It is incredible. We made lots of it last summer with the abundance of fresh green beans from our pea-patch. Everyone loved it.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Sounds delicious…how do you find room for a food processor on your boat?