Mole Amarillo appears as a signature dish in 1 Mexico cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Mole amarillo · Oaxaca
Mole amarillo is the brightest yellow of the seven moles, built on chilhuacle amarillo, hierba santa and masa, served at funerals and weddings in Sierra communities.
Mole amarillo is the most pre-Hispanic of the seven; it predates the Spanish, with chilhuacle amarillo (only grown in Cuicatlan), hierba santa, masa-thickened broth and no chocolate. It is the canonical mole for the empanadas-de-amarillo street vendors at Plaza Llano on weekend afternoons. Ancestral Cocina Tradicional in Xochimilco serves an amarillo with pork and chayote that locals consider the city's reference version.
Where to eat in Oaxaca:
- Ancestral Cocina Tradicional
- Las Quince Letras
- Los Pacos
- Restaurante Catedral
- Tierra del Sol