Currently, the bottles are only available for purchase at our location. Some are fattier. Most were pretty cagey about telling me what was in it. That also is a step towards getting that street-food flavor. A bottle of hot sauce will cost $10. It is an open forum for sharing recipes (grandma's recipe, a clone of a restaurant in Canada or New Zealand or America) etc. Definitely a good alternative if you are mayo averse. http://www.bookguys.ca however, This sub is not affiliated with any author or book series. Some are creamier than others. This is the regular beef one. My halal cart guy, when I lived in the city, gave me his recipe and I keep it in the fridge all the time. This one is pretty good, but I only had halal guys once or twice so I can't really say how close it is... give it a shot it's really tasty. No delivery fee on your first order. Spices can be a lot of things on a nutrition label, but according to FDA Title 21 §182.10 they must be “generally recognized as safe” and cannot be an allergen that would otherwise be undisclosed on the label. It is delicious. As a former New Yorker, I can attest that this recipe was pretty spot on. Dammit, back to the kitchen! I actually make mine with vinegar and lemon juice, and no yogurt. The rest of the recipe was a matter of trial and error. Oh get it. I'll also be spinning the dried parsley in my spice grinder to reduce clogging in the squeeze bottle's spout. Easy: I cooked them down in a skilet. I'm nowhere near an experienced cook, but I only used 1/2 the sugar called for in the recipe and that was still way to sweet in my opinion. As soon as you pass that corner, the aroma becomes so … 14 thoughts on “ Halal Guys Copycat Chicken and Turmeric Rice w/ Red Chili Sauce and White Sauce ” Dee February 26, 2020 11:46 pm Reply I made this white sauce on Monday and it’s delicious ! That one consists of watered down mayo and pepper? Mine is mayo, greek yogurt, lemon juice, vinegar, dash of sugar, parsley. We're like the wikileaks of food! If you want to go full authentic, let it sit in a plastic squeeze bottle next to a hot grill for half a day and make sure you act slightly annoyed when you serve it to your guests. White sauce is another thing entirely, an Americanized concoction reportedly first invented by the owners of one of the most popular carts, The Halal Guys, in the 90's. who the fuck is upvoting this atrocious and obviously not accurate recipe of grinding pepper into watered down mayo? let's do the cheese sauce. In the end, we actually decided to add a bit of extra lemon juice to it, because in those tests, people preferred the homemade version to the street-food version. The sauce by itself just doesn’t have much going on, but mix it with the rice and chicken and all of the cumin, chili, garlic, and other spices (plus some extra oil) are a part of the taste now. The Halal Guys’ white sauce is legendary, mayonnaise-based but mysteriously, addictively spiced. It’s basically just hot mayo . All recipes are welcome. Cook down mayo and cream side by side and you'll see that the oil and matter layers they form look pretty distinctly different from each other, and I don't know anything else that breaks in the same way that mayo does. I would think that a simple homemade mayonnaise made with lemon juice could fit the recipe very nicely. Even at the same cart, the sauce can vary over the course of a few visits, which leads me to believe that most of these guys are just mixing up a huge batch by eye once a week or every few days or whenever they need them. That's the one case where I strayed from trying to make an exact copycat recipe. Next time I'll be over-pouring the vinegar again, but not accidentally doubling it. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. And miracle whipe does contain eggs. We had a great time and of course, enjoyed lots of delicious meals together. Some are fattier. Her recipe uses lemon juice, where I think the Halal Guys use vinegar, but it's a good place to start. You can also buy some store bought Tzatziki if you want to keep things simple. They would have to list yogurt as an ingredient since dairy is an allergen. How did I figure out that pretty much all of them have mayo in them? A delicious copycat recipe of the famous NYC Food Cart. I don't know when I'll be able to return to New York. Gyro Platter (Regular) Then I went into the kitchen and started playing with ingredients until I got something that in blind taste tests, most folks couldn't tell the difference between the homemade and street-bought, at least within the same margin of error in consistency that the street carts have from day to day. Halal Guys serves just two types of animal protein: chicken and beef. Here is the yelp link for those who don't know the hype: http://www.yelp.com/biz/53rd-and-6th-halal-cart-new-york, Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, The full recipe: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/12/serious-eats-halal-cart-style-chicken-and-rice-white-sauce-recipe.html. Doesn’t seem right. Last time I added too much vinegar, and it thinned it out a bit more while still having a great taste. Like the article said it's yogurt, acids mayo and some mix of them that makes the base. I love it. Yeah I think that this is probably a better/tastier sauce but not quite what HG is using. So to the OP, that would be the real answer. Hello Everyone!! I mean, the entire bowl is delicious but I love to load up on the sauce as it really makes the dish. Regular platters come with 2 packets of white sauce and 1 packet of hot sauce. In today’s video, I will recreate one of my childhood street's food favorite.The Halal Guys cart. Order online and track your order live. It is my recipe. [13] [14] [15] A "distant cousin of tzatziki", the Halal Guys' white sauce has been the subject of multiple recreations based on ingredients on to-go packets, but to no avail. https://www.thrillist.com/recipe/new-york/halal-white-sauce-thrillist-recipes For the chicken: Combine the lemon juice, oregano, coriander, garlic, and olive oil in a blender. Top Secret Recipes is a place to find recipes so you can make your favorite restaurant food at home! Many add mayonnaise to sweeten up and vinegar instead of lime juice but trust me lime is better in my opinion. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. It wasn't Toume or anything close. Normally, I'd refer a question like this to r/recipes, but we happen to have the recipe's author here. However, the days of waiting in line are over! Instead, the sauces break almost immediately upon getting hot, which is something that happens to mayo, which is a far less stable emulsion than yogurt or even cream. ... You choice of two proteins served with your choice of toppings with our famous hot and white sauce on the side. Kenji, do you recall how you came up with this particular formulation? Dill and garlic have to be broken out of just “spices” too, but don’t show up on their ingredient list. I've tried the white sauce recipe as follows, but it doesn't taste right at all. Now there are a couple problems here - the carts don't all have the same sauce. This summer we spent a week at Bear Lake in Utah with my husbands family. From street cart to your refrigerator, get ready to experience the white sauce that you could not stop talking about from the comfort of your home! of course not exactly like that cart, but damn it was close, and damn good too!!! I’m calling shenanigans on the conspirators putting up silly versions of the white sauce served at Halal Guys and similar food carts, including the beloved Kenji Lopez-Alt. It just didn't occur to me at the time. I've actually tried this recipe and really like it, howeverfelt the sauce was weak. /r/AskCulinary provides expert guidance for your specific cooking problems to help people of all skill levels become better cooks, to increase understanding of cooking, and to share valuable culinary knowledge. While food processing the garlic sauce, add salt until it's really minced up then add lemon juice or lime then slowly add oil till you get this fluffish texture. Make it a regular platter for an additional charge. It's not Kenji's recipe, it's from the Cook the Book column that Caroline Russock wrote. Halal Guys is known for its platter which consists of rice, portion of meat, some pita and its popular red and white sauce. Have fun. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the AskCulinary community. If you want a direct copycat, try using the same recipe but omit the lemon juice (you can increase the vinegar instead). Whipped salad dressing is cheaper than mayo has a similar texture, but is a little tangier (which might account for why we found that may with no lemon and only vinegar was closer to the street-cart version than with lemon). Mexican crema/creme fresh(both the same thing) I've come to learn you can mix with or drizzle on anything for an extra bit of creamyness. https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/how-to-make-halal-white-sauce-article. The Halal Guys are the pioneers of American Halal Food. More information The packet of tangy white sauce contains soybean, canola oil, egg yolk, vinegar, water, salt, sugar, natural flavors and black pepper. As someone who's never been to NY, I've followed Kenji's recipe and ended up with something awesome. Wtf is it just me or the recipe is not written....just bs backstory. I made this recipe after seeing your post! Let's go this cheese sauce with the whole long as White sauce. https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/halal-cart-style-white-sauce The good news is that you won’t need to make a special trip to NYC to enjoy all of the fantastic flavors in our Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice with White Yogurt Sauce! that was a lot. I've cooked it a few times already. When I stumbled upon a recipe for Authentic Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice with White Sauce I had to give it a try. If you haven’t been to be 53rd & 6th aka Halal guys chicken and rice kart, than your pretty much missing out on life. Went down this hole recently. The addition of mayo tastes completely wrong. Oh be careful though. Everyone who's stood in line at their neighborhood street cart knows that the secret to happiness lies in the magical white sauce. It also answers the big question I had, which was that I'd always thought that for halal food, you can't serve chicken meat with eggs (I may totally be wrong about this—perhaps this is only for kosher food). Add dill, and I shit you not, some ranch. ... from the creamy tangy white sauce to the perfect flavorful moist chicken to the fiery kick from the red sauce to top it all off! Oh, we got it. While the rice cooks, you can prep the white sauce and your veggies. Photo from @thehalalguys on Instagram. The Halal Guys, the Middle Eastern halal street food concept, is opening its first location in Santa Clara on Sept. 11. I went to those carts or sent interns to those carts repeatedly and got a ton of extra sauce. Thrillist recipe is legit, I make it all the time. Alright. It’s really not fair to make the sauce by itself. If you look behind the counter in some of their storefront establishments (Boston, Vegas) they have huge tubs of the stuff. Ingredient mapping from Blue Plate mayonnaise (top) to Halal Guys White Sauce packet (bottom) The only missing ingredients are “spices”, xantham gum, and sodium benzoate. https://burntmyfingers.com/2018/06/26/recipe-halal-guys-white-sauce Get delivery from The Halal Guys super-fast to your door. I really think creme fresh or mexican crema would be a great substitute for the mayo. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. absolutely delicious. Since 1990. Get ready for falafel platters and unlimited white sauce. Garlic Cloves ( make sure you take that tiny heart of the garlic cause it can make it really pungent or use garlic powder for the ease or you can boil the garlic cloves). New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the TopSecretRecipes community. We're gonna pour the cheese sauce. Combo Platter. Fyi I would suggest buying generic mayo from walmart and not the Trader Joe mayo....the TJ mayo is super flavorful and really over powers the sauce so no matter how much you portion the ingredients the original TJ mayo taste still pushes through. Hot Sauce is measured in SHU’s, or Scoville Heat Units. I have tinkered around with a few copycat recipes over the past few years. If they were 100% yogurt, or ricotta, or wathever other dairy based, they should start to burn long before they break and form distinct oil, water, and matter layers (that's assuming it's made with full fat yogurt or ricotta. The basic ingredients should be pretty spot on though. View menu and reviews for The Halal Guys in White Plains, plus popular items & reviews. This copycat recipe for THE Halal Guys Chicken and Rice (with white SAUCE) is the real deal. The trick is to use “heavy mayonnaise”. turned out so good. Can't help you with finding a recipe for the what you found in NY, but I've made that Serious Eats recipe several times, and have passed it along to friends, and it's always been a huge hit. Then let it sit overnight in the fridge. That's a rebel. We do not ship food. Jun 21, 2016 - The Halal Guys reveal the ingredients to seasoned white and hot sauces. This Halal Guys chicken rice bowl is boldly spiced, served with flavorful turmeric rice and spiced yogurt sauce. Also serve it standing up. Hi, the white sauce they add is probably their version of the local Lebanese sauce Toum which is a staple sauce added in most street foods in middle-east to India and Bangladesh even when making " shawarma sauce". The Halal Guys also serve a white sauce condiment which patrons cite as a favorite and has been described as "famous". In March 2013, Gothamist shared a recipe that included ranch dressing, sour cream and horseradish but the concoction still didn’t quite match The Halal Guys’ glorious white sauce. Hi, the white sauce they add is probably their version of the local Lebanese sauce Toum which is a staple sauce added in most street foods in middle-east to India and Bangladesh even when making " shawarma sauce". The Halal Sauce goes perfect on everything! Kenji's is pretty good, but I think the best one I have found, and I think likely the most authentic, is this one from Thrillist. The Authentic American Halal Food. Order the Halal Sauce today! As discussed back in January, 2018 will be the year we achieve a copycat recipe for this cousin of Greek tsadziki sauce. Shit I’m sorry I didn’t realize what sub I was in. The Halal Guys aren’t spilling on their famous white sauce recipe any time soon, but seeing as it’s been practically unchanged for 25 years, they know they’ve got a good thing going. Blend … The Halal Guys are best known for their platters and gyros filled with tender, grilled Halal chicken and seasoned rice, served with a creamy white sauce. Halal Guys is super popular in New York City. The Halal Guys’ Hot Sauce is SERIOUSLY HOT, registering 100,000-130,000 on the Scoville scale. EDIT 3: that tangy zip is miracle whip. You will want to add this to your dinner menu, ASAP! With egg-free Miracle whip, this wouldn't be a problem. So I'm not 100% certain about the mayo, but pretty darn sure. This one seems more legit than the OP article. I'm so sad that I can't taste a bite of heaven from my home. I came up with the recipe originally by interviewing a few of the various halal cart owners, both of the guys on 53rd ,and a few others around the city. That's the first thing that gets into my mouth. http://www.yelp.com/biz/53rd-and-6th-halal-cart-new-york, http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/12/serious-eats-halal-cart-style-chicken-and-rice-white-sauce-recipe.html. EDIT 2: scientist_tz mentioned below that it is most like Miracle Whip (or the generic equivalent), not actual mayo in the recipe, which now that I think of it, seems like the obvious answer. Now there are a couple problems here - the carts don't all have the same sauce. Serving Chicken, Gyros, and Falafel Platters. One of the moderators of this sub is host of a very popular book show (which is coming back soon!) Press J to jump to the feed. Voila. IDK what else to make the recipe more authentic, besides maybe substituting a different yogurt instead of Greek yogurt, which is generally pretty thick. According to Nev, “while good at any time of the day, an order of chicken and rice was the perfect end to a long night out in the Big Apple.” Seriously, the white sauce is the best part. Even at the same cart, the sauce can vary over the course of a few visits, which leads me to believe that most of these guys are just mixing up a huge batch by eye once a week or every few days or whenever they need them. From salads to rice bowls and meatballs to fish, once you try The Halal Sauce you'll realize that it's all about the sauce! This is a shot in the dark, but what kind of mayonnaise are you using? Once you have had a taste, you will understand why New Yorkers and tourists alike have stood in the city’s longest food cart line (sometimes for hours) to get a hot, steaming platter of chicken or gyro over rice, covered in The Halal Guys famous, proprietary White Sauce. One bottle of white sauce will cost $8. Please help me. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Thanks again for sharing! Some are creamier than others. i tried out the recipe also not too long ago. It comes from the Serious Eats book, which Caroline featured in the Cook the Book column. For the spicy red sauce, we bought some harissa at World Market. I think more flavor comes from the seasoning on the chicken and rice than most people think. The white sauce we made uses a mixture of mayo and yogurt and tastes very similar to the Halal Guys version. hey yeah! Press J to jump to the feed. Halal Guys – Chicken and Rice. One person said mayo. ATTENTION CUSTOMERS: When ordering your food, you may also purchase our sauce bottles. Delivery or takeout! Most likely, it wouldn't break period). While he has many fond memories of the city, when it comes to food he talks most consistently about getting chicken and rice from Halal Guys, a Manhattan street food cart located at 53rd and 6th. I made this recipe a while back, http://www.reddit.com/r/recipes/comments/13czaq/i_tried_serious_eats_halal_cartstyle_chicken_and/. 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