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Sheet-Pan Chicken Shawarma with Pita

Warmly spiced chicken and onions roasted hard on a sheet pan, piled into pita with yogurt sauce.

Sheet-Pan Chicken Shawarma with Pita, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
40 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$14.35

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 lb boneless chicken thighs
  • 1 red onion
  • 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 2 tsp paprika
  • 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 1 lemon
  • 3/4 cup plain greek yogurt
  • 2 tbsp tahini
  • 4 pita bread
  • 1 cucumber

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 450F. Slice the chicken into strips and the onion into thick wedges.

  2. Toss both with the olive oil, cumin, paprika, turmeric, half the minced garlic, salt and the juice of half the lemon.

  3. Spread on a sheet pan in a single layer and roast 22 to 25 minutes, until the edges are dark.

  4. Stir the yogurt, tahini, remaining garlic, remaining lemon juice and a pinch of salt into a sauce.

  5. Warm the pita in the oven for the last 2 minutes.

  6. Fill the pita with chicken, onion and sliced cucumber and spoon the sauce over.

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$57.40$14.3512 of 12 ingredients
United Kingdom£25.15£6.2912 of 12 ingredients
Australia$74.94$18.7412 of 12 ingredients
Canada$125.71$31.4312 of 12 ingredients
Greece31,09 €7,77 €11 of 12 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٠١٥٫٠٣ ج.م.‏‏٢٥٣٫٧٦ ج.م.‏11 of 12 ingredients
Spain17,19 €4,30 €11 of 12 ingredients
Mexico$762.91$190.7311 of 12 ingredients
New Zealand$60.88*$15.228 of 12 ingredients
Germany15,94 €*3,99 €7 of 12 ingredients
Austria€ 13,29*€ 3,327 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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