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Italian Sausage and White Bean Stew

Sausage, white beans and kale simmered into a thick stew you eat with bread.

Italian Sausage and White Bean Stew, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
40 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$6.66

Ingredients

  • 1 lb italian sausage links
  • 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 3/8 lb carrots
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 30 oz canned cannellini beans
  • 14 1/2 oz canned diced tomatoes
  • 3 cup chicken broth
  • 1 bunch kale
  • 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
  • 1 french baguette(optional)

Method

  1. Squeeze the sausage out of its casings and brown it in the oil, breaking it into pieces.

  2. Add the diced onion and carrot and cook 6 minutes, then the garlic and pepper flakes.

  3. Add the tomatoes, drained beans and broth and simmer 15 minutes.

  4. Mash some of the beans against the side of the pot to thicken the stew.

  5. Stir in the stripped, chopped kale and cook 5 minutes until tender.

  6. Season with salt and serve with torn baguette.

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 10 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£24.96£6.2410 of 10 ingredients
Canada$53.75$13.4410 of 10 ingredients
Australia$48.23$12.069 of 10 ingredients
United States$26.62$6.668 of 10 ingredients
New Zealand$49.61$12.408 of 10 ingredients
Spain10,78 €2,70 €8 of 10 ingredients
Germany23,20 €5,80 €8 of 10 ingredients
Greece20,35 €5,09 €7 of 10 ingredients
Egypt‏٦٣٦٫٠٨ ج.م.‏‏١٥٩٫٠٢ ج.م.‏7 of 10 ingredients
Austria€ 17,81€ 4,457 of 10 ingredients
Mexico$946.34*$236.596 of 10 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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