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Mushroom Swiss Melts

Deeply browned mushrooms and thyme piled onto toast under broiled Swiss.

Mushroom Swiss Melts, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
30 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$6.84

Ingredients

  • 20 oz cremini (baby bella) mushrooms
  • 1 sourdough loaf
  • 8 oz sliced swiss cheese
  • 4 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 1 1/2 tsp dried thyme
  • 2 tbsp dijon mustard
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • 5 oz spring mix salad greens(optional)

Method

  1. Slice the mushrooms thickly and the onion thinly.

  2. Melt the butter in a wide skillet over medium-high and cook the mushrooms without stirring for 5 minutes, then toss and cook 8 minutes more until browned and dry.

  3. Add the onion, garlic, thyme, and salt and cook 5 minutes until softened.

  4. Cut eight thick slices of sourdough and toast them under the broiler on one side.

  5. Flip, spread with Dijon, mound the mushrooms on, and cover with Swiss.

  6. Broil 3 minutes until the cheese melts and bubbles. Serve with a handful of greens.

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£20.33£5.089 of 9 ingredients
Australia$66.71$16.689 of 9 ingredients
Greece24,66 €6,17 €9 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٤٣٨٫٥٤ ج.م.‏‏٣٥٩٫٦٤ ج.م.‏9 of 9 ingredients
Canada$76.26$19.079 of 9 ingredients
Spain25,19 €6,30 €9 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$544.79$136.209 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$62.55$15.648 of 9 ingredients
Germany20,78 €5,20 €8 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 31,56€ 7,898 of 9 ingredients
United States$27.34$6.847 of 9 ingredients

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