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Chicken Bacon Ranch Melts

Griddled sourdough stuffed with shredded chicken, bacon, ranch, and Swiss until the cheese runs.

Chicken Bacon Ranch Melts, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
26 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$13.29

Ingredients

  • 1 rotisserie chicken
  • 1 sourdough loaf
  • 6 oz bacon
  • 8 oz sliced swiss cheese
  • 5 tbsp ranch dressing
  • 4 tbsp salted butter
  • 1/2 lb vine tomatoes
  • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper

Method

  1. Cook the bacon until crisp, drain, and break into pieces.

  2. Shred about 3 cups of meat from the rotisserie chicken and toss with the ranch dressing and black pepper.

  3. Cut eight thick slices of sourdough and butter one side of each.

  4. Build four sandwiches butter-side out: cheese, chicken, bacon, sliced tomato, more cheese.

  5. Griddle over medium heat 4 minutes per side, pressing gently, until the bread is deep golden and the cheese has melted.

  6. Let the melts sit a minute, then cut in half.

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 8 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 States$53.15$13.298 of 8 ingredients
United Kingdom£29.98£7.508 of 8 ingredients
Australia$68.72$17.187 of 8 ingredients
New Zealand$59.87$14.977 of 8 ingredients
Greece43,81 €10,95 €7 of 8 ingredients
Canada$80.19$20.057 of 8 ingredients
Mexico$729.13$182.286 of 8 ingredients
Austria€ 34,17*€ 8,545 of 8 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬١٩٥٫٠٥ ج.م.‏*‏٢٩٨٫٧٦ ج.م.‏4 of 8 ingredients
Germany10,80 €*2,70 €4 of 8 ingredients
Spain9,33 €*2,33 €3 of 8 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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