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Green mole recipe (mole verde) with pork
Created by Kimberley Chiswell
- Cuisine: Mexican
- Prep Time: 10 min(s)
- Cook Time: 1 hr(s) 10 min(s)
- Serves 6
Tender pork cooked in a beautiful, fresh green mole, ingeniously coloured by the pumpkin seeds, vegetables, green chillies and herbs. Serve with Mexican rice and corn tortillas.
Ingredients
1 kg pork leg meat, cut into 2 cm cubes1 bay leaf
½ small onion
salt
3 tbsp sesame seeds
50 g almonds
100 g pumpkin seeds
15 spring onions, roughly chopped
1 garlic clove
400 g tin tomatillos (Mexican tomatoes)
1 large green capsicum, seeded and roughly chopped
2 hot green chillies
1 bunch coriander, roughly chopped
ground cumin
pepper
olive oil
Preparation
Place the pork in a saucepan with the bay leaf, onion and salt. Cover with water and bring to the boil, then simmer until tender (approximately 1 hour).Toast the sesame seeds in a dry frying pan until golden. Remove from the pan and repeat with the almonds and then the pumpkin seeds. Puree the seeds and nuts in a blender with a little water from the pork. Set aside.
Put the spring onions, garlic, tomatillos, capsicum, chilli and coriander in the blender with cumin, salt and pepper to taste. Add 2 cups of water from the pork and puree to a bright green sauce.
Heat a little oil in a saucepan and fry the seed and nut mixture for a few minutes. Add the green sauce and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the cooked pork and simmer for a few more minutes.
SBS cook’s notes
Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55–60 g, unless specified.
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Comments (3)
19 Dec 2012 05:58 AEST
Greg Lehey
Dereel, not a suburb
What shallots?
I saw the video of this dish, and it doesn't look bad. But there are no shallots in it. They're spring onions. Why do you have to go along with this bureaucratic obfuscation which nobody understands? You're just making life difficult for the 99% of the audience who don't know about it.
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09 Jan 2010 06:43 AEST
juan bernardo vazquez
tokyo
09 Jan 2010 06:31 AEST
juan bernardo vazquez
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