Air-Fryer Mexican Mole Chicken Tostada Cups

AF-200 Crew Recipe

Air-Fryer Mexican Mole Chicken Tostada Cups

Easy air-fryer mexican mole chicken tostada cups with measured UK ingredients, practical timings and proper global chicken flavour.

Mole brings chilli, nuts, spice and a little dark chocolate into one of the deepest sauces in Mexican cooking. This is a streamlined weeknight version, not a claim to somebody's twenty-ingredient family recipe.

Small tortilla cups turn crisp in the air fryer, then hold shredded mole chicken, pickled onion and cool crema. They look like party food and eat like a serious dinner if nobody is counting.

Air-Fryer Mexican Mole Chicken Tostada Cups
Air-Fryer Mexican Mole Chicken Tostada Cups preparation stage

You’ll Need

For the Chicken
600g chicken thigh fillets
1 tbsp sunflower oil
½ tsp sea salt
½ tsp black pepper

For the Quick Mole
200g passata
1 tbsp smooth peanut butter
1 tbsp chipotle paste
1 tsp cocoa powder
½ tsp ground cumin
½ tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp honey
100ml chicken stock

For the Tostada Cups
8 small flour or corn tortillas
Olive oil spray
Pickled red onions
Soured cream
Chopped coriander

Optional but Dangerous
Crumbled feta
Sliced jalapeños
Extra chipotle

Method

Preheat your air fryer to 195°C.

Toss the chicken with oil, salt and black pepper and air fry for 12-14 minutes.

Check the chicken reaches 75°C, rest for 3 minutes and shred with two forks.

Mix the passata, peanut butter, chipotle, cocoa, cumin, cinnamon, honey and stock in a heatproof dish.

Air fry the mole at 180°C for 8 minutes, stirring twice.

Fold the shredded chicken through the sauce and cook for another 3 minutes.

Lightly spray the tortillas and press them into heatproof ramekins to form cups.

Air fry at 180°C for 5-7 minutes until crisp, then cool for 2 minutes before removing.

Fill each tostada cup with hot mole chicken.

Top with pickled onion, soured cream and coriander.

Lad Tip: A little cocoa deepens mole, a lot makes pudding with chicken in it. Use an unsweetened teaspoon and let the chilli, nuts and spice stay in charge.

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