Mole Burger

spicy chocolate, creamy crunchy

Make sure your guests come hungry when you’re serving this easy recipe for Mole Burgers. Although they are shaped like burgers, and served on buns, there is nothing familiar about them. They will be fast favorites nonetheless. I’ve watched an uncle devour four without blinking an eye.

Serve these easy Mole Burgers as the main course after an appetizer of mini Fish Tacos, and alongside some Rum-Soaked Watermelon Wedges.

cooking information

• Yield: 24 4-oz. Burgers
• Prep Time: 40 minutes
• Cooking Time: 30 minutes

all ingredients

• 2 Dozen Small Buns
• 6 Pounds Ground Beef
• 1 Cup Prepared Guacamole
• 24 Tortilla Chips
• 1 Large White Onion
• 3 Tablespoons Olive Oil
• 4 Cloves Garlic
• 1 1/2 Cups Chicken Stock
• 4 Ounces Dark Chocolate
• 1 Tablespoon Dried Oregano
• 1 Tablespoon Cumin
• 2 Teaspoons Cinnamon
• 5 Tablespoons Dark Chili Powder

recipe instruction

1. Finely chop and mince your onion and garlic.

2. Preheat a large non-stick sauté pan to medium high heat with the olive oil at the bottom of the pan.

3. Once the pan is preheated, add your onions and garlic and sauté until the onions are translucent and you can smell the garlic.

4. After the onions and garlic reach this point add your oregano, dark chili powder, cinnamon, and cumin to the pan and cook for 2 minutes. It’ll get a a little pasty but you want to start to toast the spices with the onions.

5. When the spices have cooked with the onions for a minute or two, add your chicken stock to thin out the concoction. Stir together.

6. The concoction will not be as thick once the chicken stock is added, once it begins to bubble add your chocolate. Stir together until the chocolate is melted. Once the chocolate is melted, your sauce is finished. Allow 30 minutes for it to come to room temperature.

7. Once your sauce is cooled, in a very large bowl combine your mole sauce and your ground beef. (It’ll be a more like a sloppy joe consistency but it’ll tighten up in the refrigerator) Form into 24 equal burger patties.

8. To cook, preheat a large non-stick sauté pan to high heat. Add your burgers and cook for 7 minute on the first side, flip and finish cooking another 7 minutes.

9. To assemble the sandwich, place one tortilla chip on the bottom of each bun, smear guacamole on the inside of the top of each bun, and finish by placing the burger in the middle.

10. Serve hot and enjoy.

cooking tips

• When buying your dark chocolates, one of the baking bars of chocolate is 4 ounces. No worries about weighing it out yourself.
• The sauce can be made a day in advance. Before combining with your ground beef the next day, slowly warm the beef in a sauté pan to loosen it up.
• The extra moist burgers and added grease can make for a very messy grill at risk of flame-ups. To avoid the mess and the flames, buy the disposable aluminum cookie sheets from your grocery store and place directly on the grill. Cook your burgers on the cookie sheet. Aluminum foil can work but you have to create kind of a “lip” around the edges to make sure the grease released doesn’t leak into the flame.

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