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White Chicken Chili

A creamy, mild chili with white beans, green chiles and shredded chicken.

White Chicken Chili, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
40 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$11.27

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 lb boneless chicken breast
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 8 oz canned diced green chiles
  • 30 oz canned cannellini beans
  • 4 cup chicken broth
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1 lime

Method

  1. Soften the diced onion in the olive oil, then add the garlic, cumin and oregano.

  2. Add the green chiles, broth and the whole chicken breasts and simmer 18 minutes.

  3. Mash about a third of the drained beans and add all of them to the pot.

  4. Remove the chicken, shred it and return it.

  5. Simmer 5 more minutes, then take off the heat and stir in the sour cream.

  6. Season with salt and finish with lime juice.

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 States$45.08$11.2710 of 11 ingredients
United Kingdom£30.33£7.5810 of 11 ingredients
Australia$68.06$17.0210 of 11 ingredients
Greece41,97 €10,49 €10 of 11 ingredients
Germany36,92 €9,23 €10 of 11 ingredients
New Zealand$67.93$16.989 of 11 ingredients
Egypt‏٨٦٩٫٧٦ ج.م.‏‏٢١٧٫٤٤ ج.م.‏9 of 11 ingredients
Canada$118.33$29.589 of 11 ingredients
Spain16,06 €4,02 €8 of 11 ingredients
Austria€ 21,86€ 5,478 of 11 ingredients
Mexico$684.79*$171.207 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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