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Coconut Chicken Curry

Thai-inspired chicken and vegetables in a coconut curry sauce, ready in half an hour.

Coconut Chicken Curry, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
35 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$12.00

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 lb boneless chicken thighs
  • 2 tbsp coconut oil
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 1 oz fresh ginger root
  • 1 tbsp curry powder
  • 13 1/2 oz canned coconut milk
  • 1 tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 lime
  • 1 1/2 cup jasmine rice
  • 1/2 bunch cilantro(optional)

Method

  1. Start the jasmine rice.

  2. Slice the chicken and brown it in the coconut oil over high heat, about 5 minutes. Set aside.

  3. Cook the sliced onion and pepper 4 minutes, then add the garlic, grated ginger and curry powder for one minute.

  4. Pour in the coconut milk, return the chicken and simmer 12 minutes until the sauce coats a spoon.

  5. Season with the fish sauce and lime juice.

  6. Serve over the rice with cilantro.

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 11 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£19.65£4.9111 of 11 ingredients
Australia$63.81$15.9511 of 11 ingredients
Greece35,84 €8,96 €11 of 11 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٤٢٤٫٢٩ ج.م.‏‏٣٥٦٫٠٧ ج.م.‏11 of 11 ingredients
Spain27,95 €6,99 €11 of 11 ingredients
Germany41,84 €10,46 €11 of 11 ingredients
United States$47.98$12.0010 of 11 ingredients
New Zealand$58.29$14.5710 of 11 ingredients
Canada$73.73$18.4310 of 11 ingredients
Austria€ 30,29€ 7,5710 of 11 ingredients
Mexico$374.75$93.699 of 11 ingredients

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