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Viewed: 60 - Published at: 3 years agoIngredients
- 6 to 8 boneless chicken breasts
- 2 onions, sliced
- 5 garlic cloves, smashed
- 2 bay leaves
- Salt
- Cranberry, Walnut, and Pipian Sauce, recipe follows
- 4 ounces olive oil
- 10 garlic cloves
- 5 shallots, chopped
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 large tomato, chopped
- 8 ounces cranberries
- 7 ounces chopped walnuts
- 4 dried ancho chiles
- 4 dried pasilla chiles
- 6 ounces pumpkin seeds
- 5 dried chiles de arbol
- 6 ounces sesame seeds, roasted
- 1 1/2 Mexican chocolate tablets
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Method
- Put the chicken breasts in a large, deep saute pan with onion, garlic, bay leaves, and salt.
- Pour just enough water to cover the chicken into the pan, bring to a boil, and boil until chicken is fully cooked through.
- To serve, slice each chicken breast into 3 or 4 pieces.
- Ladle some of the Cranberry, Walnut, and Pipian Sauce onto each serving plate and top with the sliced chicken breast.
- Garnish with fresh herbs, if desired.
- Preheat the oven to 165 degrees F.
- On a baking sheet, mix together all ingredients except the sesame seeds, Mexican chocolate, and salt and pepper.
- Roast in the oven for 2 hours.
- (The sesame seeds should be roasted separately.)
- Put all roasted ingredients, plus the sesame seeds, into a blender.
- Blend until smooth and then strain.
- Transfer the sauce to a medium saucepan and boil for 1 hour.
- Add the chocolate tablets, season, to taste, with salt and pepper, and continue boiling for an additional 30 minutes.
- This sauce also goes very well with fish.
