Chilaquiles

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1. 1Step 1: Marinate your chicken in the homemade adobo spice rub ahead of time. Blend all ground ingredients from the spice rub section together, and rub over chicken with olive oil in a large bowl. Let it marinate for anywhere between 20 minutes and a day.
2. 2Step 2: Whisk the ingredients from the Mexican crema section together in a bowl, add salt to taste.
3. 3Step 3: Toast chiles de arbol and whole allspice berries. Combine remaining ingredients together in a pot, and cook until reduced by half. Using an immersion blender, blend until smooth.
4. 4Step 4: In a large skillet, saute onion, garlic, and spices in lard until soft and picking up light color.
5. 5Step 5: Add pureed chipotle paste, raisins, and a pinch of spice rub powder.
6. 6Step 6: Add chicken stock and freshly pureed/liquified tomatoes. Simmer until sauce reduces and thickens, about 20 minutes. Stir in cilantro to finish.
7. 7Step 7: On a hot plancha or skillet, drizzle olive oil and sprinkle salt on the chicken pieces and saute. Do the same with the mushrooms on a separate part of the plancha/skillet (saute them with oil and salt).
8. 8Step 8: Pull the mushrooms off and set aside as soon as they’re cooked through and starting to caramelize. Continue cooking the chicken until it’s cooked all the way through, then set aside and cut into slices.
9. 9Step 9: In a large cast iron skillet, ladle and spread a base layer of the ranchero sauce, covering the bottom of the pan. Spread on a layer of tortilla chips, then cover those in a little more ranchero sauce.
10. 10Step 10: Sprinkle black beans, poblano rajas, caramelized onions, grilled mushrooms, sliced adobo chicken, and top with a touch more ranchero sauce.
11. 11Step 11: Next, sprinkle a layer of the queso Oaxaca and the queso Chihuahua over the other ingredients. Crack the eggs into the dish.
12. 12Step 12: Bake at 400 F for about 10 minutes.
13. 13Step 13: Pull out of the oven, and with everything still in the cast iron skillet, add Mexican crema and chile de arbol sauce, queso fresco, radishes, and micro cilantro.
14. 14Step 14: Serve immediately.