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Chicken Gyro Pitas

Oregano-marinated chicken tucked into warm pita with tomato, red onion, and yogurt sauce.

Chicken Gyro Pitas, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
30 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$11.78

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 lb boneless chicken thighs
  • 4 pita bread
  • 1 cup plain greek yogurt
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1/2 lb roma tomatoes
  • 1 red onion
  • 3 oz crumbled feta cheese
  • 2 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 lemon
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt

Method

  1. Toss the chicken with 2 tablespoons olive oil, the oregano, half the minced garlic, the salt, and half the lemon juice. Marinate 10 minutes.

  2. Grate half the cucumber, squeeze out the water, and stir it into the yogurt with the remaining garlic and lemon juice.

  3. Sear the chicken in a hot skillet 6 minutes per side until charred at the edges and cooked through. Rest, then slice thin.

  4. Slice the tomatoes, the rest of the cucumber, and the red onion.

  5. Warm the pitas in a dry pan for 30 seconds per side.

  6. Fill each pita with chicken, vegetables, a spoonful of yogurt sauce, and crumbled feta.

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 12 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$47.11$11.7812 of 12 ingredients
United Kingdom£29.47£7.3712 of 12 ingredients
Australia$88.14$22.0412 of 12 ingredients
Spain24,51 €6,13 €12 of 12 ingredients
Egypt‏٩٥٠٫٩٧ ج.م.‏‏٢٣٧٫٧٤ ج.م.‏11 of 12 ingredients
Canada$101.46$25.3711 of 12 ingredients
New Zealand$80.70$20.189 of 12 ingredients
Greece26,93 €6,73 €9 of 12 ingredients
Mexico$788.52$197.139 of 12 ingredients
Austria€ 24,23*€ 6,068 of 12 ingredients
Germany16,31 €*4,08 €7 of 12 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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