This month we want to present you Puebla´s mole, because we celebrate our Independence.

Mole is made with 20 ingredients such as mulato, ancho, pasilla and chipotle

chilies, sesame seeds, almonds, peanuts, raisins, tomatoes, onion, garlic, pepper, salt, cloves, aniseed, cinnamon, white bread, tortilla, chocolate and lard.

Mole.

This story of mole is quite funny. The Dominican Convent in the city of Puebla had to make a typical Mexican dish for a Spanish viceroy, and didn't know what to serve him.

The previous afternoon, Sister Andrea had ordered a turkey to be killed; it had been especially fattened at the convent by feeding it walnuts, chestnuts and hazelnuts, and was supposed to be used to make a special meal for the Bishop.

Sister Andrea began to select chilies and other spices, she placed them all in a clay pot and began to grind them. Suddenly, a nun came running in and shouted, "Sister, hurry up and grind". Sister Andrea replied, "for goodness sake, don't make such a fuss, Sister" (however, when she said this, it seems that she confused the Spanish word to grind "muele" with a different word, "mole", thus giving the dish its name: Mole Poblano).

Dishes of Pueblan mole.

Once Sister Andrea had finished the mixture, she covered the pieces of turkey with it, placed them on a Talavera ceramic dish and, while on her way to the table, she came across a bowl of sesame seeds and sprinkled a few on top to give her work the final touch.

After this dish had been prepared, the convent was filled with a delicious smell that made the all the other nuns' mouths water.

In the kitchen

In my section you can learn to cook by Alejandro Roman Aponte

The food is international like Japanese food, Italian food, and Mexican food.

My first recipe is Yakimeshi a Japanese food.

My recipe is:

Japanese rice

Soya

Carrots

Olive oil

Eggs

Ajinomoto

Salt

butter

Put first the vegetables, the onion and garlic

Then put de rice, the soya, the ajinomoto and the salt.