PESHAWAR: The claims over the legacy of the world-famous `Butter Chicken’ recipe in India have evoked interest among dwellers of Peshawar, a city from where the ancestors of both the litigants.
The butter chicken – with its tangy tomatoes and in all its velvety fullness – is one of India's best gastronomic exports and, for many of us, a reason to eat out. The dish now lands in the soup of its own making – over the seemingly unappetising question of who invented the butter chicken
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Two Delhi-based restaurant chains, Moti Mahal and Daryaganj, both lay claim to this iconic cuisine, and have since been engaged in a tussle – one that has now reached India’s courts.
Delhi High Court will decide on a case regarding who can describe themselves as butter chicken inventors. But even before that, the parties involved hold an important piece of Delhi s food history: they trace their origins back to business partners who left Peshawar to come to the capital after Partition in 1947, and set up a wildly popular restaurant.