AARON SANCHEZ’ PERFECT MOLE

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound guajillo chiles about 32, stemmed, seeded and deveined
• 1/2 pound pasilla chiles bout 24, stemmed, seeded an ddeveined
• 1/2 pound ancho chiles about 16, stemmed, seeded, and deveined
• 2 yellow onions medium, quartered
• 4 medium tomatoes cored and quartered
• 10 tomatillos fresh, about 1 lb, husked and rinsed
• 8 whole garlic cloves peeled
• 1 cup pitted prunes
• 1 cup dried apricots
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1 bottle red wine
• 2 tablespoons oregano dried whole, preferably Mexican
• 1 tablespoon cumin seeds
• 1 tablespoon fennel seeds
• 2 tablespoons black peppercorns
• 5 whole cloves
• 2 canela
• 4 cinnamon sticks
• 4 quarts chicken stock low-sodium
• 2 plantains sweet, black, about ¾ lb
• vegetable oil
• 1 ounce mexican chocolate
• 5 corn tortillas charred over an open flame until blackened in spots
• salt