If we categorise the population of the world in three parts with respect to butter chicken then there would be one who love butter chicken, the second is who thinks it is overrated & the third ones are those who never tasted butter chicken. And among all these categories, I feel very sad for the 3rd types of people. It’s a loss of enormous proportions, as per my view. Delhi, our country’s capital, owes a biggest part of the tasty tradition to the Mughals. Butter Chicken, though, possess more humble origins, & was born very close to house. It dates back a few decades for the pre-partition India & it leads us to a mithai-shop known as Mukhey da Dhaba in Peshawar. It’s owned by a gentleman named Mokha Singh. Some years before, I was at a Masala library in Mumbai, It was pleasant surprise for finding Butter Chicken on tasting menu. It’s now a complete movement to take the humble item & reinvent or present it in nouveau avtaar. Saransh Goila, a television celebrity made his purpose clear to feed Butter Chicken to needy people in the Mumbai city.
Now, you would see Butter Chicken tacos, rolls, pizzas, biryani & burger afe about everything one could think of. Purists may scoff at the unnecessary & sometimes even forced product extension efforts. But also when it it about food, I have faith in the evolution. Authenticity is overrated & the best type of dish is that evolves unapologetically and adhering to basic objective of pleasing. AIn nutshell, Butter chicken was invented by Kundan Lal Gujral & he did have only a slight idea that he was creating a history in a manner. And if this dish was not gone through the experiment by him then the globe would not have heard the names like Butter chicken, Dal Makhani or Tandoori Chicken. Yes, there are traces of these other dishes also connected with him. But it’s altogether a different story.
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