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Greek Chicken Quinoa Bowls

Oregano chicken over lemony quinoa with cucumber, tomato, and salty feta.

Greek Chicken Quinoa Bowls, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
35 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$10.69

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 lb boneless chicken thighs
  • 1 1/2 cup quinoa
  • 1 cucumber
  • 10 oz cherry tomatoes
  • 4 oz crumbled feta cheese
  • 2 lemon
  • 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tsp dried oregano
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 4 oz sliced black olives(optional)

Method

  1. Rinse the quinoa and simmer in 3 cups of salted water, covered, for 15 minutes. Rest 5 minutes and fluff.

  2. Toss the thighs with 2 tablespoons olive oil, the oregano, minced garlic, salt, and the juice of one lemon.

  3. Heat a grill pan over medium-high and cook the thighs 6 to 7 minutes per side until charred and cooked through. Rest, then slice.

  4. Dress the quinoa with the remaining olive oil and the juice of the second lemon.

  5. Dice the cucumber and halve the cherry tomatoes.

  6. Build bowls with quinoa, chicken, cucumber, tomatoes, olives, and a heavy scatter of feta.

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 10 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$42.76$10.6910 of 10 ingredients
United Kingdom£28.88£7.2210 of 10 ingredients
Australia$68.64$17.1610 of 10 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬١٣٩٫٩١ ج.م.‏‏٢٨٤٫٩٨ ج.م.‏10 of 10 ingredients
Spain24,09 €6,02 €10 of 10 ingredients
Canada$101.88$25.479 of 10 ingredients
New Zealand$95.29$23.828 of 10 ingredients
Austria€ 32,29€ 8,078 of 10 ingredients
Greece28,98 €7,25 €7 of 10 ingredients
Germany20,25 €5,06 €7 of 10 ingredients
Mexico$777.15*$194.296 of 10 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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