Who invented butter chicken? A court in India will decide
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Who invented butter chicken? Two restaurants in India are embroiled in a lawsuit over who can rightfully claim to have originated the globally loved curry.
NEW DELHI — Butter chicken, a rich tomato-based Indian curry that makes mouths water around the world, was invented by a man named Kundan — the question is which one.
In 1947, during the bloody partition that carved the new nation of Pakistan out of the former British colony of India, both men fled the city of Peshawar to the Indian capital, New Delhi, where they started a restaurant that became famed for the dish.
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