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Coconut Curry Chicken

Chicken thighs simmered in a mild coconut curry with sweet potato, served over basmati.

Coconut Curry Chicken, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
45 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$11.56

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 lb boneless chicken thighs
  • 13 1/2 oz canned coconut milk
  • 1 lb sweet potatoes
  • 1 1/2 cup basmati rice
  • 2 tbsp curry powder
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 1 oz fresh ginger root
  • 2 oz tomato paste
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 5 oz baby spinach

Method

  1. Start the basmati rice.

  2. Heat the oil in a Dutch oven over medium. Cook the diced onion 6 minutes, then add the minced garlic and grated ginger for 1 minute.

  3. Stir in the curry powder and tomato paste and cook 1 minute until darkened and fragrant.

  4. Add the chicken cut into large chunks, the peeled and cubed sweet potato, the coconut milk, half a cup of water, and the salt.

  5. Cover and simmer 20 minutes, until the sweet potato is tender and the chicken is cooked through.

  6. Stir in the spinach until wilted and serve over the rice.

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 Kingdom£22.49£5.6212 of 12 ingredients
Australia$69.65$17.4112 of 12 ingredients
Canada$109.29$27.3212 of 12 ingredients
United States$46.23$11.5611 of 12 ingredients
New Zealand$74.32$18.5810 of 12 ingredients
Egypt‏٨٦٧٫٣٦ ج.م.‏‏٢١٦٫٨٤ ج.م.‏10 of 12 ingredients
Greece28,13 €7,03 €9 of 12 ingredients
Spain22,35 €5,59 €9 of 12 ingredients
Germany27,64 €6,91 €9 of 12 ingredients
Mexico$655.13*$163.788 of 12 ingredients
Austria€ 13,54*€ 3,397 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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