What Mulato means
Mulato is a Mexican ingredient name of Spanish origin meaning "brownish one". It comes from Spanish mulato (here used as a colour term, brown). It is pronounced moo-LAH-toh, and it is most associated with Puebla.
A colour word in this use: a poblano that dries brown-black rather than red. With ancho and pasilla it makes the chile base of mole poblano.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The words that appear inside dish names: the chiles (ancho, guajillo, pasilla, chipotle), the corn words (nixtamal, masa, tortilla, elote), and the tools (comal, molcajete, metate). Learn these and most menu items decode themselves.
