Mole is a spicy Mexican sauce that has many versions. Not all of them feature chocolate, and even those that do don't use it as the main ingredient.

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Marcos Castillo/Shutterstock If you've heard that Mexican mole sauce is made from a surprisingly sweet ingredient — chocolate — well, you've unfortunately heard wrong. Sort of. While chocolate ...

Take a break from jelly-coated, marinara-poached, and Swedish meatballs, and try these Mexican-inspired snacks instead.

An curved arrow pointing right. Indigenous women in Mexico still make mole sauce using ancient tools like the metate grinding stone. We visit chef Evangelina Aquino Luis of Nana Vira in Oaxaca to ...

Related: I Let TikTok Choose My Dinner for a Week—and It Didn’t Disappoint For the uninitiated, mole (moh-lay) is a sauce that’s traditional in many parts of Mexico, including Oaxaca and Pueblo.