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Chicken Noodle Soup

The real version, with bone-in chicken simmered into the broth and egg noodles added at the end.

Chicken Noodle Soup, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
55 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$6.16

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 lb bone-in chicken thighs
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 3/4 lb carrots
  • 1/2 bunch celery
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 8 cup chicken broth
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 tsp dried thyme
  • 8 oz egg noodles
  • 1/4 bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley(optional)

Method

  1. Put the chicken thighs, broth, bay leaves and thyme in a pot and bring to a gentle simmer. Cook 30 minutes.

  2. Meanwhile dice the onion, carrots and celery.

  3. Lift the chicken out. Add the vegetables and garlic to the broth and simmer 10 minutes.

  4. Shred the chicken off the bones and return the meat to the pot.

  5. Add the egg noodles and cook 7 minutes, until just tender.

  6. Fish out the bay leaves, season generously with salt and pepper, and finish with parsley.

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£30.42£7.619 of 9 ingredients
Australia$60.31$15.089 of 9 ingredients
Canada$67.98$17.009 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$81.54$20.398 of 9 ingredients
Greece20,80 €5,20 €8 of 9 ingredients
Spain15,99 €4,00 €8 of 9 ingredients
Germany40,18 €10,05 €8 of 9 ingredients
United States$24.62$6.167 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏٢٣٩٫٠٧ ج.م.‏*‏٥٩٫٧٧ ج.م.‏6 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$547.82*$136.966 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 11,86*€ 2,975 of 9 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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