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Last Updated on April 30, 2025
Chocolate, cinnamon and almond butter make this chicken mole authentic as well as low carb and Keto! This Mexican recipe is smokey and slightly bitter.
When this recipe for Chocolate Chicken Mole was bubbling away in the slow cooker, my stomach would not stop constantly screaming to eat.
I felt like it had turned into a toddler having a temper tantrum over some candy.
I could not wait to inhale this deliciousness that my friend Arsy, from Rubies and Radishes, had created for her cookbook The Paleo Foodie Cookbook.
It was so stinking good, I ate seconds. Almost like the time we made this delicious instant pot Mexican chicken recipe.
This book is a gorgeous testimony to Paleo eating and, I’m just going to say, BUY IT!
Just do it.
What you’ll need for this Recipe:
- Chicken
- Sea salt and black pepper
- Ghee
- Onion
- Garlic
- Whole tomatoes
- New Mexico chili peppers
- Creamy Almond Butter
- Dark chocolate, 70% or above
- Sea salt
- Cumin powder
- Cinnamon powder
- Guajillpo chili powder
- Avocado
- Cilantro
- Jalapeno
How to Make This Chicken Mole Recipe:
Generous salt and pepper the chicken.
Place a pan over medium heat and add the ghee.
Once the ghee has warmed, add the chicken and brown on all sizes. This may need to be done in batches.
Move the chicken to slow cooker.
Add onion to the same pan and saute until translucent.
Add garlic and saute for 1 to 2 minutes.
Transfer onion and garlic to the slow cooker.
Add the tomatoes, chili peppers, almond butter, dark chocolate, salt and spices to the slow cooker.
Cook on low to 4 to 6 hours or until the chicken is tender and pulls apart easily.
Top mole with the avocado, cilantro and jalapeno and serve!
If you like this Chocolate Chicken Mole recipe, you’ll love:
Slow Cooker Chili Verde (Keto, Whole 30)
Slow Cooker Kalua Pork (Keto, Whole30)
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Chicken Mole
This mexican recipe uses a chocolate mole sauce that is rich with spices and just a touch of bitterness in this Chicken Mole recipe
Ingredients
- 2 lbs chicken pieces bone in breasts and legs work well, Skin removed
- Sea salt and black pepper to taste. to taste
- 2 tbsp ghee
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 4 cloves garlic crushed or minced
- 6 – 7 whole tomatoes peeled, seeded and chopped
- 5 dried New Mexico chili peppers rehydrated and chopped
- 1/4 cup creamy Almond Butter
- 2.5 oz dark chocolate 70% or above
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon power
- 1/2 tsp guajillpo chili powder
- avocado cilantro and jalapeno, all chopped.
Instructions
- Generous salt and pepper the chicken.
- Place a pan over medium heat and add the ghee.
- Once the ghee has warmed, add the chicken and brown on all sizes. This may need to be done in batches.
- Move the chicken to slow cooker.
- Add onion to the same pan and saute until translucent.
- Add garlic and saute for 1 to 2 minutes.
- Transfer onion and garlic to the slow cooker.
- Add the tomatoes, chili peppers, almond butter, dark chocolate, salt and spices to the slow cooker.
- Cook on low to 4 to 6 hours or until the chicken is tender and pulls apart easily.
- Top mole with the avocado, cilantro and jalapeno and serve!
Recipe reprinted with the express permission from Arsy @ Rubies and Radishes.
I have got to make this! It looks yummy, and any time I can use the crockpot, it makes my day.
I already follow you on facebook
I am now following you on pinterest!
I’m following rubies and radishes on pinterest too.
Okay this is going in the cooker now. And I rarely part with my dark chocolate for anything!!
followed both pinterest links…
Thank you so much for the lovely review, Kelly! You are such a talented photographer!
Thank you Arsy!
this looks delicious! i am definitely making this this weekend – our oven just broke and a new one wont be here for another 1-2 weeks, so we’re stuck with the slow cooker and microwave.
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This looks really good – can almost taste it by reading the recipe. Will be adding this to my favorites.
chocolate & chicken. I will follow you wherever you go! social media needs more deliciousness 🙂
That recipe sounds delicious- I love using my slow cooker!
Already like you on FB as Shell Feis
Now following Rubies and Radishes on Pinterest as {Not Quite} Susie Homemaker
Already following you on Pinterest as {Not Quite} Susie Homemaker
Oh, my this sounds good. Had a close friend and neighbor make her family recipe for us one time and thought it one of the best chicken dishes I’d ever eaten. Will try this soon, as I have ALL the ingredients on hand.
This looks so delicious! I love crokpot recipes!
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I follow you on pinterest!
I follow Arsy on pinterest!
Sounds great! Can’t wait to try it!
WOW!!! Just made this recipe and it is quite spectacular! I’ve eaten my share of mole many times, but this is a great modification to it! I didn’t have the chilis on hand, but will try next time. I also used pre-cooked chicken breast and whipped it up rather quickly in a pan, (couldn’t wait!), and let it simmer for a short bit. Big thumbs up!! 🙂
Yeah! I’m so glad you loved it Didi 🙂
Just found this recipe today and am eager to try it.
Based on local avaiability (or not) of dried peppers and chili pwders, what do you recommend as substitutions… based on heat and flavor?aa
What are “New Mexico” peppers? How mild/hot? What sort of flavor?
If guajillo chili powder is not immediately available is cayenne a reasonable substitute? If not…?
Thanks.
This wasn’t spicey at all Tom. I would use chili powder not cayenne as a substitute
Made this tonight!!! So tasty and rich and healthy tasting. I did add some honey though it was just as good without. YUM!!
So glad you enjoyed it Jody 🙂
Can you replace the almond butter with something else for someone with a nut allergy?
Sunbutter should work. It will change the flavor a touch.
LOVE this recipe, sweet friend! So I included it in my contributor post – “50 Fabulous Grain-Free Slow Cooker Meals” – over at Keeper of the Home. I hope it sends lots of new friends your way! 🙂
Do you think it would be good if I subbed some cocoa powder for the chocolate? I am looking for things I can make on Whole30.
I don’t see why that wouldn’t work hun.
Wow. Chocolate and chicken. Could it get any better?
It’s soo good too!
I am so excited to make this! Do you know how many carbs is in this recipe? Total Fat? Thank you for sharing!
I don’t hun but you can use this calculator http://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/calculator
We made this tonight and it’s terrible, The end result is nothing like mole. It tasted like almond butter tomato sauce. Glad some people liked it. Sadly, we’ll be throwing this out and going out to dinner.
Sorry it didn’t work for you hun!
Kelly, This looks delicious! Do you have suggestions for the Almond Butter? My son is allergic to tree nuts. Would peanut butter work in it’s place?
Yes, peanut butter would totally work hun
Can’t wait to try these recipes. They look scrumptious.
Just made this today and it was a big hit!!! So good and so easy to make.
Hi! I was wondering if you could make this boneless chicken breast and thighs? And if so, does that change the cook time? Thank you!
I’ve never made it this way but you would probably have to reduce the cook time.
Hey, I wanted to make a mole dish that was both nightshade free and Paleo friendly. Is there anything I could use to replace the tomatoes? If not, how do you think it would turn out with the other ingredients- chocolate, almond butter, cinnamon/other spices (minus pepper and tomatoes).
I’ll be honest, I don’t think it will work without these ingredients. You might be better off trying to find and AIP Chicken Mole recipe.