Moti Mahal

The legal dispute over who actually "invented" iconic Indian dishes butter chicken and dal makhani is heating up.

The lawsuit - which has become a hot topic in India - was brought by the family behind Moti Mahal, a famed Delhi restaurant brand that has counted late US President Richard Nixon and India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru among its guests.

The battle for the culinary crown over the invention of iconic Indian dishes, Butter Chicken and Dal Makhani, has landed in the halls of the Delhi High Court.

Most dishes develop gradually, through a combination of natural conditions, slow adaptation of tradition and the occasional innovative twist

Wonder who created your beloved Dal Makhani? It is said that Kundan Lal Gujral, founder of Moti Mahal chain of restaurants, invented it.

There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who love butter chicken, those who think butter chicken is overrated and those who have never tasted butter chicken.

Monish Gujral, owner of the Moti Mahal chain, is a restaurateur, chef and food writer. He talks about his love for pineapples and why we should eat them more often.Pineapples have a typical musky tropical flavour. I've always loved pineapples for their...

Indian restaurateur and foodie Monish Gujral's book "On The Kebab Trail" has been named the Best Foreign Recipe Cookbook at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards held during the Beijing Cookbook Fair.

What does gold have to do with food? Well, I am writing about the black dal - yes humble black urad whole lentil whose avatar, the makhani dal, was invented by none other than Kundan Lal Gujral, the founder of the Moti Mahal chain.He revolutionized the...

Sometimes, one does not know when one is about to embark on a long journey to unknown lands in search of hidden secrets and treasures. This happened with me a few years ago. It was in 2010 and I was teaching at the Le Cordon Bleu in Paris when a Bosnian...

Straight from a Punjabi kitchen, butter chicken has been an instant hit through the years. Marinated overnight, the chicken is roasted and cooked in tomato puree, cream and masalas.

The legal dispute over who actually "invented" iconic Indian dishes butter chicken and dal makhani is heating up.

The lawsuit - which has become a hot topic in India - was brought by the family behind Moti Mahal, a famed Delhi restaurant brand that has counted late US President Richard Nixon and India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru among its guests.

The battle for the culinary crown over the invention of iconic Indian dishes, Butter Chicken and Dal Makhani, has landed in the halls of the Delhi High Court.

Most dishes develop gradually, through a combination of natural conditions, slow adaptation of tradition and the occasional innovative twist

Wonder who created your beloved Dal Makhani? It is said that Kundan Lal Gujral, founder of Moti Mahal chain of restaurants, invented it.

There are three kinds of people in this world. Those who love butter chicken, those who think butter chicken is overrated and those who have never tasted butter chicken.

Monish Gujral, owner of the Moti Mahal chain, is a restaurateur, chef and food writer. He talks about his love for pineapples and why we should eat them more often.Pineapples have a typical musky tropical flavour. I've always loved pineapples for their...

Indian restaurateur and foodie Monish Gujral's book "On The Kebab Trail" has been named the Best Foreign Recipe Cookbook at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards held during the Beijing Cookbook Fair.

What does gold have to do with food? Well, I am writing about the black dal - yes humble black urad whole lentil whose avatar, the makhani dal, was invented by none other than Kundan Lal Gujral, the founder of the Moti Mahal chain.He revolutionized the...

Sometimes, one does not know when one is about to embark on a long journey to unknown lands in search of hidden secrets and treasures. This happened with me a few years ago. It was in 2010 and I was teaching at the Le Cordon Bleu in Paris when a Bosnian...

Straight from a Punjabi kitchen, butter chicken has been an instant hit through the years. Marinated overnight, the chicken is roasted and cooked in tomato puree, cream and masalas.