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Chili Cheese Fries Sheet Pan

Crisp oven fries buried under quick beef chili and melted cheddar, eaten with a fork.

Chili Cheese Fries Sheet Pan, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
45 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$6.74

Ingredients

  • 28 oz frozen french fries
  • 1 lb ground beef (80/20)
  • 15 oz canned kidney beans
  • 8 oz canned tomato sauce
  • 1 tbsp chili powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese
  • 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/2 bunch green onions / scallions(optional)
  • 1/2 cup sour cream(optional)

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 425F and spread the fries on a large sheet pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes until crisp, turning once.

  2. Meanwhile brown the beef with the diced onion in a skillet over medium-high, about 8 minutes.

  3. Stir in the chili powder, cumin, and salt, then the tomato sauce and drained kidney beans.

  4. Simmer 10 minutes until thick, mashing a few beans against the side of the pan.

  5. Spoon the chili over the hot fries, scatter the cheddar on top, and return to the oven 4 minutes to melt.

  6. Finish with scallions and sour cream.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 9 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£19.09£4.779 of 9 ingredients
Australia$40.11$10.039 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$51.80$12.959 of 9 ingredients
Canada$101.27$25.329 of 9 ingredients
United States$26.94$6.748 of 9 ingredients
Greece17,45 €4,36 €7 of 9 ingredients
Spain18,08 €4,52 €7 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$525.02$131.267 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 25,21€ 6,307 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏٣٩٠٫٨١ ج.م.‏*‏٩٧٫٧٠ ج.م.‏6 of 9 ingredients
Germany20,14 €*5,04 €6 of 9 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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