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Braised Chicken with Olives and Lemon

Chicken thighs braised with green-cured olives, garlic and lemon until the sauce turns glossy.

Braised Chicken with Olives and Lemon, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
50 min

Ingredients

  • 2 lb bone-in chicken thighs
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 5 clove garlic
  • 5 oz sliced black olives
  • 1 oz capers
  • 1 1/2 cup chicken broth
  • 1 lemon
  • 2 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 1/4 cup couscous

Method

  1. Salt the chicken well and brown it skin side down in the oil in a heavy pan, 7 minutes. Turn and give it 2 more, then set aside.

  2. Cook the sliced onion in the fat until soft, then add the garlic and oregano.

  3. Add the broth, olives, drained capers and lemon slices, scraping the bottom of the pan.

  4. Return the chicken skin side up, cover and simmer 30 minutes.

  5. Uncover for the last 5 minutes to reduce the sauce.

  6. Make the couscous with boiling water while it finishes, and serve the chicken and sauce over it.

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 Kingdom£32.30£8.0810 of 10 ingredients
Australia$60.11$15.0310 of 10 ingredients
Spain17,87 €4,47 €10 of 10 ingredients
Germany41,79 €10,45 €10 of 10 ingredients
New Zealand$81.67$20.429 of 10 ingredients
Greece26,11 €6,53 €9 of 10 ingredients
Egypt‏٨١٩٫٩٦ ج.م.‏‏٢٠٤٫٩٩ ج.م.‏8 of 10 ingredients
Austria€ 20,83€ 5,218 of 10 ingredients
Canada$62.93$15.737 of 10 ingredients
Mexico$762.09$190.527 of 10 ingredients
United States$16.10*$4.035 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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