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White Beans with Kale and Tomatoes

Creamy cannellini beans simmered with garlic, kale, and tomatoes, eaten with toast.

White Beans with Kale and Tomatoes, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
30 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$7.33

Ingredients

  • 45 oz canned cannellini beans
  • 1 bunch kale
  • 14 1/2 oz canned diced tomatoes
  • 1 1/2 cup vegetable broth
  • 5 clove garlic
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 sourdough loaf

Method

  1. Cook the diced onion in 2 tablespoons olive oil over medium for 6 minutes.

  2. Add the sliced garlic and red pepper flakes and cook 1 minute without letting the garlic brown.

  3. Add the diced tomatoes, the drained beans, the broth, and the salt. Simmer 8 minutes.

  4. Strip the kale leaves from their stems, tear them up, and stir them in. Cook 5 minutes until tender.

  5. Mash some beans against the pan so the broth turns creamy. Finish with lemon juice and the remaining olive oil.

  6. Toast thick slices of sourdough and spoon the beans over them.

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£20.52£5.1311 of 11 ingredients
Australia$50.28$12.5711 of 11 ingredients
Greece22,09 €5,52 €11 of 11 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬١٩٣٫٨٩ ج.م.‏‏٢٩٨٫٤٧ ج.م.‏11 of 11 ingredients
Canada$66.14$16.5411 of 11 ingredients
Spain16,35 €4,09 €11 of 11 ingredients
New Zealand$53.81$13.4510 of 11 ingredients
Germany25,69 €6,42 €10 of 11 ingredients
Mexico$824.50$206.1310 of 11 ingredients
United States$29.31$7.339 of 11 ingredients
Austria€ 22,25€ 5,569 of 11 ingredients

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