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October 25, 2018 By Tiinatuuli 5 Comments

VEGAN BLACK BEAN MOLE PASTA

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Vegan Black Bean Mole Pasta It’s World Pasta Day and I have just the perfect pasta for this special day (or any day 😉 )- vegan black bean mole pasta. This is probably far from the original mole, which I tasted many years ago while studying in Mexico, but it has one ingredient which justifies the name mole… It’s the ingredient I’m using as “parmesan”: chocolate!! Dark chocolate gives an amazing unique rich flavor to pasta sauce and I love how it tastes with soft black beans.

Click here to read this post in Finnish.

My fake mole sauce

I didn’t add any chili to the sauce which is also why this is far from the original mole. Instead of chili I added fresh ginger and fresh turmeric root (ground turmeric works well too) as the warming spices. This is definitely a lazy cooks version of black bean mole, as it takes about 20 minutes to make. Here are my short cuts:

  • ready to use black beans
  • canned tomatoes
  • vegetable stock cube

Vegan Black Bean Mole Pasta

Chocolate and pasta for dinner!

Because it’s such an easy pasta, I make this quite often, at least twice a month. My kids are crazy about this, mostly because they love chocolate so much and it’s fun to have chocolate for dinner.

The chocolate I’m using is 85% dark chocolate, so it’s not a super sweet one but sweet enough to give the sauce a beautiful rich chocolatey flavor to balance the other flavors. But I promise this doesn’t taste like chocolate pasta 🙂

Hope you like this fun & comforting pasta too ♥

Love,

Tiina

VEGAN BLACK BEAN MOLE PASTA
 
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Prep time
10 mins
Cook time
20 mins
Total time
30 mins
 
A comforting meal for the whole family with amazing warming spices and special flavor from dark chocolate. It's best to cook this in a (sauce)pan with a lid.
Cuisine: vegan and gluten-free (if using gf pasta)
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • ½ tbsp olive oil (or cooking oil of choice, or just water)
  • 1 onion (red or yellow)
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 0,3 oz / 8 g (a spoonful) of ginger
  • 0,2 oz / 5 g of turmeric root (or 1 tsp ground turmeric)
  • 2 tsp cumin
  • 1 tsp Ceylon cinnamon
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • 17 oz / 500 g canned tomatoes
  • 1 cup of water
  • 1 vegetable stock cube (or vegetable stock powder)
  • 7 oz / 200 g cooked black beans (from a can)
  • 0,5 oz / 15 g dark chocolate (I use 85%)

  • To serve:
  • Pasta for four
  • Optional: A few pieces of dark chocolate to grate on top of pasta and fresh oregano
Instructions
  1. Chop onions and garlic. Grate ginger and turmeric.
  2. Heat oil in a pan and add chopped onions and garlic. Let them soften for about 3 minutes in medium heat.
  3. Add grated ginger and turmeric and cook them for a minute or two.
  4. Add other spices and warm them up stirring for about a minute.
  5. Add canned tomatoes, water and vegetable stock cube. Mix well and let simmer in medium heat for 5 minutes until the sauce thickens.
  6. Add black beans and chocolate and let simmer in low heat for about 10 minutes under a lid.
  7. The longer you let it simmer, the more flavorful the sauce will be.
  8. Cook pasta while sauce is simmering.
  9. Garnish pasta dish with grated chocolate & fresh oregano and enjoy this flavorful meal.
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    November 4, 2018 at 11:26 am

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