Mole: The Sauce That Tastes Like a Song

An easy, beginner-loving guide to Mexico’s most complex, celebratory dish.

Mole is less of a recipe and more of a riddle someone’s great-great aunt whispered into a pot. Not just a mother sauce—think of it as a grandmother sauce: ancient, deeply rooted, and made to transform whatever ingredients are on hand into something worthy of any guest or moment. Mole is the kind of traditional Mexican sauce that teaches you how to pay a…