{"id":51890,"date":"2024-01-24T16:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/who-invented-butter-chicken\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:07:04","slug":"who-invented-butter-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/who-invented-butter-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Who invented butter chicken?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Butter chicken \u2013 one of India\u2019s best-known dishes globally \u2013 is delicious and apparently also contentious, with two Indian restaurant chains doing battle in court over claims to its origins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit \u2013 which has become a hot topic in India \u2013 was brought by the family behind Moti Mahal, a famed Delhi restaurant brand that has counted late U.S. President Richard Nixon and India\u2019s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru among its guests.<\/p>\n<p>It claims restaurant founder, Kundan Lal Gujral, created the curry in the 1930s when the restaurant first opened in Peshawar before it moved to Delhi. In a 2,752-page court filing it has sued rival chain Daryaganj, accusing it of falsely claiming to have invented the dish as well as dal makhani, a popular lentil dish that is also laden with butter and cream.<\/p>\n<p>The Gujral family is seeking $240,000 in damages, also alleging that Daryaganj has copied the layout of Moti Mahal\u2019s website and \u201cthe look and feel\u201d of its restaurants.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Who Invented Butter Chicken And Dal Makhani? Legal Tussle Reaches Delhi high court | English News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DWyUIvkn1v0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot take away somebody\u2019s legacy \u2026 The dish was invented when our grandfather was in Pakistan,\u201d said Monish Gujral, managing director at Moti Mahal.<\/p>\n<p>Daryaganj \u2013 which was established relatively recently in 2019 \u2013 counters that its late family member, Kundan Lal Jaggi, had partnered with Gujral to open the Delhi restaurant in 1947, and the dish was invented there. That gives it the right to also lay claim to the creation of the dish, it argues.<\/p>\n<p>Daryaganj shared with Reuters a faded, hand-written partnership document registered in 1949 to back its argument.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute has captured the nation\u2019s attention with Indian TV broadcasters running segments on the history of the dish and debate raging on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an offbeat, unique case. You really don\u2019t know who created the first dish of butter chicken. The court will be hard pressed and will need to rely on circumstantial evidence,\u201d said Ameet Datta, an intellectual property lawyer at India\u2019s Saikrishna &amp; Associates.<\/p>\n<p>Testimonies of people who can link the brand to the dish they consumed decades ago could be critical proof, Datta added.<\/p>\n<p>Made with tandoor-cooked chicken pieces mixed in a tomato gravy with dollops of cream and butter, the dish was ranked 43rd in a list of world\u2019s \u201cbest dishes\u201d by TasteAtlas as rated by nearly 400,000 users. It was the second-ranked Indian food after butter garlic naan bread. The two are often paired together.<\/p>\n<p>The case was first heard by the Delhi High Court last week and the next hearing is scheduled for May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butter chicken \u2013 one of India\u2019s best-known dishes globally \u2013 is delicious and apparently also contentious, with two Indian restaurant chains doing battle in court over claims to its origins. The lawsuit \u2013 which has become a hot topic in India \u2013 was brought by the family behind Moti Mahal, a famed Delhi restaurant brand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Butter-Chicken.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}