Halal Chicken: You MUST try this.

This is not halal. The state Halal is in the killing of the animal and has no thing to do with the preparation. Even the article you have linked to pays at least the respect to us to say halal cart style.

This is like saying you love the kosher pork and is annoying.

yes this is correct, and it is quite annoying for it to be said this way.

The halal meat if there is a volume of production has no need to be more expensive, it is not in contradiction to the mass production as we have this slaughter of the chicken in the mass production in all the Islamic countries. I think that New York has enough of a population of the muslims to have an economical production.

It is better if you take the name given in the article you have found, it is annoying and to the very practicing, offensive to label as halal what has no relationship with halal.

djajaj bi arroz , the chicken in rice. a complicated name, yes? it is the food of farmers. It is very funny to read these things about this food.

It to me seems to be something like pretentious to cut out the word cart to make it not cart food but halal food. this is both inaccurate and annoying (or offensive to the very pious).

It’s common usage here.

Get over it.

I know it not to be, except maybe among some new pretentious who want to pretend eating the food of farmers made from carts brings them something special.

Next you’ll be telling me that chicken 65 isn’t made with 65 chickens.

Then again, I’m from Boston and it does annoy me a tad that Boston Cream Pie, in addition to being gross, is a cake and not a pie. But I also went to Boston College, which is actually a university and it’s in Newton, not Boston.

::shrug::

And what’s up with English Muffins? :smiley:

Sheesh, people. Words change. And people like what they like. Telling them they shouldn’t like something (or shouldn’t like it as much as they do) is rather silly.

This recipe looks interesting, but I just don’t have those spices laying around. I’m making my go-to chicken thigh dish tonight, which I actually did a CS thread on a few months ago.

If it’s well-prepared and tasty, who cares if it’s the “food of farmers?” Some of my favorite dishes are basically peasant food.

Who said you should care if it is the food of farmers? I find it funny it was made into something very special and for wanting to know the name is. It is quite transparent it is for the pretentions of special knowledge.

It is like removing the word cart from the phrase of the original source, which said “Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice” to pretend to a greater and more exotic name and status.

It still is the case that I am sure that the same misuse of casher would be more commented on.

Well, it does have Kosher salt in it, so there’s that.

…The fuck?

If the name offends you don’t make it. Or call it something else.

I linked a recipe I made and enjoyed and shared it with others who also appear to enjoy it.

So-called “peasant food” is quite popular across the board. What do you think Cioppino is? Fish stew with whatever you had lying around. What do you think polenta is? What do you tofu is? Chicken cacciatore… same thing.

Offended? I am amused at the pretensions in renaming in this thread the street cart food to present it more exotically, since of course it can not only be the street cart chicken in rice, becasue this would not have the right cachet exotic. It is better to take the foreign word in the article to present it, the sense of it not being of any care.

The meats in my house are of course the Halal, so to make the simple Djadj bi arroz is as the Halal chicken in rice is always correct.

It maybe is more amusing from now on that I shall call it Poulet et riz de style Newyorkaise, to have veritably have the same accuracy and exoticism. That will be very funny.

Ramira, earlier in the thread it was stated that “Halal Chicken” is what a lot of New Yorkers (at least–possibly other cities where such carts are common) call this kind of dish. Not out of a pretension born from “removing the word cart” from anything–it’s just what they’ve come to call it over the years.

I’ll be making the halal cart chicken tomorrow night using cut up breast meat. The store we were in didn’t have the boneless thighs.

Exotic? Street cart chicken in rice would be an absolutely worthless name because it could refer to about 25 dishes. Halal Chicken seems like a very utilitarian way to differentiate the dish in as few words as possible.

Wow, my go-to dark meat chicken dish was fantastic. I add portobello mushrooms and some white pepper (to give it some bite). And I do substitute green curry paste for dijon mustard (just because I don’t like mustard). The key is to make sure the sauce is very thick. Served over rice this is savory heaven.

If you want to discuss the origins of the dish, Ramira, go ahead. But this is just dismissive and rude, so it’s threadshitting. Stop it.

Dang, this sounds good. Thanks to all the people up in arms about the name–if you hadn’t kept bumping the thread, I would’ve missed it.

I’m confused as to how simplifying the name amounts to amounts to “present[ing] it more exotically.” If anything, calling it by the name “djadj bi arroz” in English sounds like exoticizing it. (Though I agree that “Halal chicken” isn’t the best name for it, and I was confused originally by the thread title, expecting it to be about the quality of Halal butchered chicken, not the name of a finished dish. “Halal-cart-style chicken and rice,” though a bit more long-winded, makes it more clearly understood.)

It’s good New York-Middle Eastern street food. It’s not being presented as anything more than that. Nobody thinks this is haute cuisine. But it is good eats.

Hard to say. Seems like not a single person who loved this recipe didn’t change it in some way.

A recipe is not a constitutional law. It doesn’t require strict adherence or judicial opinions to allow for interpretation.

The recipe is good. It can be made better according to one’s preference for various flavour profiles.

It should not be taken as condemnation of the original recipe if someone prefers to add their own twist. That’s the creative and satisfying aspect of cooking your own food your own way.