5 ounces skinless boneless chicken breasts -- (1 fillet)

freshly ground black pepper Mexican spice mix olive oil spray 1/2 red bell pepper -- sliced

2 ounces sliced mushrooms -- (2 or 3 oz)

** S A U C E ** 1/2 cup green tomato-chile sauce

3 tablespoons mole chili pepper paste

1/2 sweet onion -- roasted

1 head garlic -- roasted, to taste

1/2 chipotle pepper -- with

1 teaspoon adobo sauce

1/4 cup diced tomato -- or salsa

1/2 cup coffee

1 cup nonfat chicken broth

1/2 teaspoon lemon zest -- minced, or more

fresh chopped cilantro -- last garnish 8 ounces cooked egg noodles

4 tablespoons monterey jack cheese -- with

chopped jalapeno -- crumbed * S I D E S * 2 cups zucchini -- julienned

orange zest -- to taste fresh herbs -- thyme 4 small potato -- boiled and halved

* CONDIMENTS * 1 small jicama -- sticks

2 large cucumbers -- cut into spears

8 ounces radishes -- quartered

1 orange -- sliced

4 tablespoons plain lowfat yogurt

To roast onion and garlic, peel and trim the onion; slice the head of garlic to expose the cloves. Roast in a overn 325degF , sealed in an aluminum foil packet, spray (optionally) with a olive oil, until aromatic (45 to 60 mins.)

Trim the chicken breast of fat. Slice it along the grain diagonally; then cut into strips. Season with black pepper and your choice of a Mexican spice blend (such as Cre-ole Spice Blend, posted previously). Spray a wok lightly; heat the wok to sear and slightly char the chicken. When no longer pink ad the bell peppers and mushrooms. Make a well in the wok's center and add the sauce item in the order list. When the mole paste blends with the sauce liquids, stir to combine all. Make about 1 to 1-1/4 cups of the sauce: Add water and/or broth to thin the sauce as it siimmers. Taste and adjust lemon and/or pepper. Stir in chopped fresh cilantro and spoon stew over the hot cooked noodles; then sprinkle with Jalapeno Jack cheese. Serve with zucchini steamed with orange zest and thyme; boiled potato wedges, well drained; condiments.

Mushroom Tomatillo Sauce with Mole Chile (Variation). Use a variety of domestic and wild mushrooms. Thin the sauce with strained soaking liquid and/or vegetable broth. Serve 1/2 cup pintos as side dish.

Pasta: fettucine, spaghetti, short lasagna, or homestyle (thick). Broth: we used about 1/2 cup 99% fat free, low salt chicken broth, and then switched to water to thin the sauce as it simmered. Mole contains ancho peppers, vegetables oil, toasted bread (crumbed), sugar, chocolate, sesame seed and/or nuts (ground) and salt, pepper, and dried herbs and spices to taste; such as oregano, cinnamon, etc. Potato: traditionally white, but gold, sweet (not yam) or blue would also be welcome. Add more Chipotle with Adobo to please the taste. The Cre-ole' spice blend is hot, spicy, sweet: Caribbean!