Chicken Molé Tamales

On Sunday we made chicken molé tamales using leftover adobo chicken and a molé recipe from the LA Cookbook by Alison Clare Steingold (pages 155-156, from the now-closed Cliff's Edge Cafe). For the tamales we followed a tamale-making process we learned from good neighborhood friends over the December break. This was fun to watch, and even more fun to enjoy later in the week.

Photo by Patrick Jones. S & Allison making tamales. 8 Jan 2023.

Both the chicken and molé sauce were prepared well ahead of tamale prep time. We used shredded chicken and molé for the tamale filling.

Photo by Patrick Jones. Molé sauce & tamale prep.

We used our pasta pot with the strainer insert to cook the tamales, as we had to make do with the tools we have at home. The pasta pot insert worked fine. I recall Allison added some water midway through the process, but I wasn't cooking or observing too closely. The end result was good though!

Photo by Patrick Jones. Tamales in the pot.

Photo by Patrick Jones. S reaching for tamales.