Mole Manchamanteles appears as a signature dish in 1 Mexico cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Mole manchamanteles · Oaxaca
Mole manchamanteles ("tablecloth stainer") is the fruity-sweet mole with pineapple, plantain, apple and ancho chile, named for the tablecloth stains it leaves.
Mole manchamanteles is the fruity-sweet mole, made with pineapple, plantain, apple, sweet potato and ancho chiles. It is the rarest mole at restaurant level (often replaced by coloradito) but appears on the seven-mole tasting platters at Catedral, Los Pacos and Ancestral. The Spanish name refers to the dramatic red-orange stains it leaves on the tablecloth.
Where to eat in Oaxaca:
- Restaurante Catedral
- Los Pacos
- Ancestral Cocina Tradicional
- Las Quince Letras