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Ground Chicken Patty Melts

Seasoned chicken patties griddled with caramelized onions and Swiss between buttered rye-style sourdough.

Ground Chicken Patty Melts, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
40 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$11.25

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 lb ground chicken
  • 2 yellow onions
  • 6 oz sliced swiss cheese
  • 1 sourdough loaf
  • 5 tbsp salted butter
  • 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp ground black pepper
  • 2 tbsp dijon mustard(optional)

Method

  1. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a skillet over medium-low and cook the thinly sliced onions 15 minutes, stirring, until deep golden. Scrape into a bowl.

  2. Mix the ground chicken with Worcestershire, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Form four thin oval patties.

  3. Cook the patties in the same skillet over medium-high, 4 minutes per side, until browned and cooked through. Top each with Swiss to melt.

  4. Butter one side of eight sourdough slices and spread the unbuttered sides with Dijon.

  5. Sandwich each patty with a pile of onions, butter-side out.

  6. Griddle 3 minutes per side over medium until crisp and golden.

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£26.65£6.669 of 9 ingredients
Australia$65.28$16.329 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$86.11$21.539 of 9 ingredients
Greece50,37 €12,59 €9 of 9 ingredients
Canada$111.15$27.799 of 9 ingredients
Spain29,88 €7,47 €9 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$816.32$204.089 of 9 ingredients
United States$45.01$11.258 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٤٠٧٫٤١ ج.م.‏‏٣٥١٫٨٥ ج.م.‏8 of 9 ingredients
Germany50,19 €12,55 €8 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 53,47€ 13,378 of 9 ingredients

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