🇧🇿 How to Make Chimole

Craving Chimole? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Chimole at home, in about 1 hr 15 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 1 whole chicken, jointed
• 1 packet (60g) black recado (recado negro)
• 6 eggs, hard-boiled, plus 2 raw
• 300g minced pork
• 1 onion, 3 tomatoes, 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 tsp cumin, 1 tsp oregano
• corn tortillas, to serve
• salt
• 8 cups water

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Dissolve the black recado in a cup of warm water, mashing it against the side of the bowl. It is charred chillies and spices pressed into a block and it stains everything it touches.
2. Simmer the chicken in the water with half the onion, tomato and garlic for 30 min.
3. Meanwhile make the relleno balls: mix the minced pork with the remaining chopped onion, tomato, garlic, cumin, oregano, salt and the 2 raw eggs. Roll around the peeled boiled eggs to enclose them.
4. Lower the balls gently into the simmering pot and cook 20 min without stirring, or they break apart.
5. Stir the dissolved black recado through. The broth turns properly black — that is correct and is why it is called black dinner.
6. Taste for salt and simmer another 10 min. Serve each bowl with a relleno ball cut in half to show the egg, and warm corn tortillas.