MUSLIM FOODS FIND A GROWING U.S. MARKET.(RELIGION)

Byline: RACHEL ZOLL Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Shaida Khan once had to carry an entire raw lamb, chopped up and wrapped, on a long subway ride from Manhattan to Queens.

``I was so exhausted,'' Khan recalled. ``I said, `I'm never doing that again.' ''

That was nearly two decades ago, when Khan could find only one store in New York that sold food for observant Muslims.

This year, when Khan makes her traditional biryani -- meat, rice and yogurt -- for the feast of Eid al-Fitr, she won't have to travel far for the ingredients.

As the U.S. Muslim population has grown in recent years, so too have the number of North American businesses …