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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£19.13£4.7811 of 11 ingredients
Australia$56.27$14.0711 of 11 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٠٨٢٫٧٧ ج.م.‏‏٢٧٠٫٦٩ ج.م.‏11 of 11 ingredients
Canada$119.12$29.7811 of 11 ingredients
United States$47.98$12.0010 of 11 ingredients
New Zealand$55.57$13.8910 of 11 ingredients
Germany14,96 €3,74 €8 of 11 ingredients
Greece29,84 €*7,46 €7 of 11 ingredients
Mexico$442.19*$110.557 of 11 ingredients
Spain13,34 €*3,34 €6 of 11 ingredients
Austria€ 30,14*€ 7,546 of 11 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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