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Crispy Chickpea Pita Pockets

Roasted spiced chickpeas stuffed into pitas with feta, cucumber, and lemon yogurt.

Crispy Chickpea Pita Pockets, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
35 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$11.80

Ingredients

  • 30 oz canned chickpeas
  • 4 pita bread
  • 1 cup plain greek yogurt
  • 4 oz crumbled feta cheese
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1/2 lb roma tomatoes
  • 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 lemon
  • 2 tsp kosher salt

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 425F. Drain and thoroughly dry the chickpeas.

  2. Toss them with 3 tablespoons olive oil, cumin, smoked paprika, and salt and spread on a sheet pan.

  3. Roast 20 minutes, shaking once, until crisped and browned at the edges.

  4. Stir the yogurt with lemon juice, the remaining oil, and a pinch of salt.

  5. Warm the pitas and cut them open into pockets.

  6. Fill with chickpeas, diced cucumber and tomato, crumbled feta, and a heavy drizzle of the lemon yogurt.

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 11 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$47.19$11.8011 of 11 ingredients
United Kingdom£23.81£5.9511 of 11 ingredients
Australia$71.43$17.8611 of 11 ingredients
Canada$130.55$32.6411 of 11 ingredients
Greece28,25 €7,06 €10 of 11 ingredients
Egypt‏٧٢١٫٧٥ ج.م.‏‏١٨٠٫٤٤ ج.م.‏10 of 11 ingredients
Spain19,90 €4,98 €10 of 11 ingredients
New Zealand$59.10$14.789 of 11 ingredients
Mexico$827.87$206.979 of 11 ingredients
Austria€ 20,94€ 5,248 of 11 ingredients
Germany17,45 €*4,36 €6 of 11 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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