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Grill-Pan Basil Butter Chicken Breasts

Chicken breasts get deep grill marks in a hot pan, then melt under a slab of garlicky basil butter.

Grill-Pan Basil Butter Chicken Breasts, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
28 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$11.40

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 lb boneless chicken breast
  • 4 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 3/4 oz fresh basil
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 lemon
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1 tsp ground black pepper
  • 2 zucchini

Method

  1. Mash the softened butter with the minced garlic, chopped basil, and a squeeze of lemon. Set aside.

  2. Slice each chicken breast horizontally into two thin cutlets. Rub with olive oil, salt, and pepper.

  3. Heat a grill pan over medium-high until it smokes faintly. Cook the cutlets 4 minutes per side without moving them, until firm and well marked.

  4. Slice the zucchini into planks, oil lightly, and grill 2 minutes per side while the chicken rests.

  5. Top each cutlet with a spoonful of basil butter and let it melt for a minute before serving with the zucchini.

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 States$45.61$11.409 of 9 ingredients
United Kingdom£32.22£8.069 of 9 ingredients
Australia$62.83$15.719 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٠٥٩٫٤٨ ج.م.‏‏٢٦٤٫٨٧ ج.م.‏9 of 9 ingredients
Canada$118.37$29.599 of 9 ingredients
Spain25,42 €6,36 €9 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$85.61$21.408 of 9 ingredients
Greece39,87 €9,97 €8 of 9 ingredients
Germany27,35 €6,84 €8 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$813.32*$203.336 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 21,58*€ 5,406 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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