Categories: chicken - main dish
Ingredients
- 3 cups water
- 1 cup instant polenta
- 1 tsp. salt
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 1/4 cup jarred dark mole paste
- 3 Tbsp. no-sugar-added peanut butter
- 2 cooked chicken breast halves, shredded in long strips
- Chopped fresh cilantro leaves
Directions
- Heat the water to a boil in a medium saucepan; add the polenta and salt. Reduce heat to simmer; cook, stirring, 5 minutes. Cover saucepan and keep warm.
- Heat the broth to a simmer in a separate saucepan; ad the mole paste, breaking it up with a wooden spoon and stirring it into the broth until it is dissolved t form a sauce.
- Stir in the peanut butter until it dissolves. The sauce should thicken, but still be pretty liquid. Taste for flavor; the sauce should not taste bitter. Add more peanut butter if you like.
- Stir in the chicken to coat the pieces; simmer on low so the sauce permeates the meat, 10 minutes. Serve the chicken and sauce over polenta, garnish with chopped cilantro.