The phrase "a mole sauce" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific type of sauce that is typically made with chili peppers, spices, and other ingredients, often associated with Mexican cuisine.
Example: "The chef prepared a delicious dish featuring chicken smothered in a rich mole sauce."
Alternatives: "a mole condiment" or "a mole dressing".
Make a mole sauce to disguise the first one.
Baked "devil chicken" ($24), not devilishly hot, has toothsome, crisp skin; the sauce has the richness of a mole sauce.
Mole poblano covered an unusually moist roasted half-chicken in a mole sauce, lighter colored than usual and (refreshingly) more tart than sweet, sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Her tasting menus (from £44 for five courses) use market finds: perhaps sashimi with zaalouk (smoky aubergine and tomatoes) and chicken with a mole sauce.
Today, tamales are found tinted pale orange by annatto seeds, or striated beige and brown, when the filling has been daubed with a mole sauce.
An order of rotisserie organic chicken brought a plump half; although it lacked the burnished glow a rotisserie usually imparts, a mole sauce and potato, squash and chorizo hash accompaniments made the partnership meaningful.
The menu includes dishes as diverse as Laotian prawns steamed in banana leaves, a French Quarter seafood bisque, chicken in a Mexican mole sauce, calamari with a Thai dipping sauce, ancho chili-rubbed rib-eye steak, a German-style tenderloin of pork with potato pancake and baked apple, and a New England fish chowder.
On-Mountain Dining It's worth a run down to the base to eat at Legends Bar and Grill in the Legacy Lodge at the Payday Lift (435-649-8111; www.parkcitymountain.com) farefare like grilled skirt steak topped with a tangy mole sauce ($14.95) and a pint of a local beer, like Wasatch Chasing Tail ($4.50).
Our favorite entrees were the fish: red snapper baked Veracruzana style in a sauce of tomatoes, sweet peppers, olives and capers, and salmon manchamanteles ("tablecloth-stainers"), with the fish resting on a fruit mole sauce and a bed of spinach.
After several visits to Mérida, he claims he was enchanted, literally haunted by the city, "which is totally ridiculous, it's not like we are talking about Venice," he said, dragging a corn tortilla through a chili mole sauce at La Lupita inside the Santiago Market.
Braised lamb shank with mescal and mole, meanwhile, offers slow-cooker shank meat in a tame mole sauce that works best as a bath for its accompanying beans.
