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All about Mexican Mole Blend, Spice Blend
What it’s like, and how to make it
HeatMild
CuisineMexican & latin
Best forBraising, slow cooker, quick weeknight
Goes inDips sauces, tacos burritos, soups stews
WithChicken, pork, beef, vegetarian, duck fowl
What’s in itground ancho chiles, ground chipotle chiles, paprika, brown sugar, sea salt, cocoa powder, molasses powder, granulated garlic
How to use it
Mexico's most complex sauce, simplified. Mix two tablespoons with chicken stock for an instant mole-style sauce, or dissolve in warm liquid and simmer with chicken for mole poblano. The cocoa and molasses give it a dark, rich sweetness while the chipotle adds smoky heat. Also brilliant stirred into black bean soup, rubbed on pork shoulder before slow-roasting, or mixed into ground beef for enchilada filling. Mild heat with serious depth.
What’s in it
Every herb in the blend, and where to read about it on its own.
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Spice · Caffeine-free
Paprika
Capsicum annuum
Dried sweet red peppers, ground. It is in twenty-eight products here mostly for colour and body — paprika gives a rub or a stew its red without adding heat, and it carries a soft, sweet pepper flavour that fills in the gaps between louder spices....
Sweet red pepper, no heat, vivid colour; the smoked one adds deep oak smoke
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Salt · Caffeine-free
Sea Salt
Sodium chloride
Seawater, evaporated. It is in twenty-five products here, which understates it — salt is the ingredient that makes every other ingredient taste like itself. Fine sea salt dissolves on contact and is the everyday cooking salt: a teaspoon in a soup pot, half a teaspoon...
Clean salinity with nothing else in the way
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Spice · Caffeine-free
Garlic
Allium sativum
A bulb, dried and broken down to three different coarsenesses, and the single most common ingredient in this catalogue — forty-three products carry it. Granulated is coarse and blooms slowly in hot oil; minced is visible pieces that plump up in a sauce; powder disappears...
Sweet, toasty and savoury; deeper and rounder than fresh garlic, without the raw bite
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Spice · Caffeine-free
Ancho Chile
Capsicum annuum
A dried poblano, and the richest of the mild Mexican chiles — raisin, dried plum, a little coffee and cocoa, a hint of smoke, and almost no heat at 1,000 to 1,500 Scoville units. Poblano means from Puebla; ancho means wide, for the broad, flat,...
Mild, sweet and fruity — raisin, dried plum, a little coffee and cocoa, a hint of smoke; almost no heat
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Spice · Caffeine-free
Chipotle
Capsicum annuum
A smoke-dried jalapeño, and the name says exactly that — from Nahuatl chīlpoctli, smoked chile. Smoke first, then a slow rounded heat, with a sweet fruitiness underneath. Three products carry it. The reason it exists is practical: a jalapeño is thick-walled and wet, and smoke...
Smoke first, then a slow rounded heat; sweet and fruity underneath
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Sweetener · Caffeine-free
Brown Sugar
Sucrose with molasses in it — either retained from the cane juice or added back to refined white crystals, which is the difference between natural and refined brown sugar. Commercial brown sugar runs from about 3.5 per cent molasses in the light kind to 6.5...
Sweet with a caramel and faintly bitter molasses depth; moist rather than dry
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Flavouring · Contains a little caffeine
Cocoa
Theobroma cacao
Ground cacao with most of the cocoa butter pressed out — powder rather than pieces, and the thing that actually makes a cup taste of chocolate rather than of roasted beans. Four products carry it. Worth knowing: Dutch-process cocoa has been treated with an alkali,...
Deep roasted chocolate, bittersweet; Dutch-processed is darker and milder, natural cocoa sharper and fruitier
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Sweetener · Caffeine-free
Molasses
The dark, bitter syrup left when sugar is refined out of cane juice — and the thing that makes brown sugar brown. Here it is a powder, in a mole blend. It brings a burnt-sugar bitterness and a mineral depth that plain sugar cannot, which...
Burnt sugar and bitterness with a mineral depth; darker and more savoury than any sugar
What it goes with
Cocoa and Assam share the exact molecule that makes Assam malty — it's called 3-methylbutanal, and it's created by the same chemical reaction in both. Brew a strong cup alongside mole chicken for a pairing grounded in molecular science. For a smoky echo, our Lapsang Souchong matches the chipotle beautifully.
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Assam Estate TGFOP
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Lapsang Souchong, Organic
Regular price From $8.00 CADRegular price
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206 of the shop’s 213 reviews are five stars — left by people who actually bought the tea
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Great products and great service
I had a slight mix up on my order, they were quick to reply and correct my order with no issues. Amazing service and great…
I had a slight mix up on my order, they were quick to reply and correct my order with no issues. Amazing service and great products.
— Nick C. Verified
Great tea
A lovely, delicate tea. The peach is strong without being overwhelming or cloying, and the calendula is a nice addition. Very…
A lovely, delicate tea. The peach is strong without being overwhelming or cloying, and the calendula is a nice addition. Very tasty!
— Zoe R. Verified
Maple Peach
The maple peach is delicious. What a beautiful combination. I will most definitely order it again, and a higher quantity of it.
— Gerda S. Verified
Always handy
I use dillweed often. This dill is fresh and has a nice aroma. I use it in marinades, salad dressings, and on fish. Good stuff.
— Jennifer D. Verified
Great stuff
This has helped my household a lot with circulation and alertness when we had it everyday. Will be ordering again soon. Thanks
— Dave G. Verified
Love this tea. Hands down my fav rooibos. This store is our one-stop-shop for tea and spice. Great service, top notch product.…
Love this tea. Hands down my fav rooibos. This store is our one-stop-shop for tea and spice. Great service, top notch product. 10/10!!
— Erin Poeta P. Verified
Delicious
I love this black tea, it has a really nice smooth flavour and love how it’s Swiss water method decaf. Will be buying again!
— Jessica A. Verified
Great flavorful tea
Toffee Ole is one of our favorite teas to share with friends in the evening, when we want something non-caffeinated but quite…
Toffee Ole is one of our favorite teas to share with friends in the evening, when we want something non-caffeinated but quite flavorful.
— Joel R. Verified
Another full bodied ‘real tea’ . ie It is not a flavoured tea. However, we do very much enjoy the Cafe Latte tea which is a…
Another full bodied ‘real tea’ . ie It is not a flavoured tea. However, we do very much enjoy the Cafe Latte tea which is a flavoured tea!!!
— Ted H. Verified
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love , love, love and they shipping is very fast. the headache tea works great, the throat coat tea works great as well
— Miranda A. Verified
4 stars
It worked beautifully; perhaps if I add a little more honey, it would make it better… It is a wellness tea, after all!
— Merrilee B. Verified
Bancha with a splash of lemon
A wonderful Green Tea. Smooth in taste. Also suitable as a summer tea with a splash of lemon. A second infusion makes an…
A wonderful Green Tea. Smooth in taste. Also suitable as a summer tea with a splash of lemon. A second infusion makes an enjoyable second cup!
— Monika F. Verified
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