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Moti Mahal is a restaurant chain founded in Delhi, India. [2] Founded after the partition of India in 1947, [3] [4] the Moti Mahal in Delhi was founded by Kundan Lal Gujral, Kundan Lal Jaggi and Thakur Das Magu as one of the first restaurants to introduce Punjabi cuisine and North Indian cuisine to the rest of the world such as tandoori chicken, paneer makhani, dal makhani, and butter chicken.
The curry was developed at the Moti Mahal restaurant in the Daryaganj neighbourhood of Old Delhi in the 1950s, after the Partition of India [7] by Kundan Lal Jaggi and Kundan Lal Gujral, [8] who were both Punjabi refugees from Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India.
Kundan Lal Jaggi (10 September 1924 – 4 March 2018) was an Indian chef and restaurateur based in New Delhi.Kundan Lal Jaggi is the inventor of butter chicken, dal makhani, paneer makhani and the founder of the Moti Mahal restaurant along with his partners Kundan Lal Gujral and Thakur Das Magu in 1947 in Daryaganj, Delhi.
The restaurant, Moti Mahal, was hugely successful, drawing the likes of President Richard Nixon, Jacqueline Kennedy and India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, before it closed in 1992.
Tandoori chicken is a dish made from chicken marinated in yogurt and spices and roasted in a tandoor, a cylindrical clay oven.The dish is now popular worldwide. The modern form of the dish was popularized by the Moti Mahal restaurant in New Delhi, India in the late 1940s.
The popular Moti Mahal restaurant chain said it had the sole right to be recognised as the inventor of. With new photographic and video evidence, an Indian court battle over the origins of the ...
Moti Mahal may refer to: Moti Mahal (restaurant), an Indian restaurant where well known dishes originated; Moti Mahal (Gulshan-e-Iqbal), one of the oldest houses in Karachi, Pakistan; Moti Shahi Mahal, the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial; Moti Mahal, Lucknow, campus of the English and Foreign Languages University
Currently, Kundan Lal Gujral's grandson, Monish Gujral has instituted Moti Mahal Delux Management Services in 2003 by expanding the business into franchises across India. Today, it has grown from a small restaurant in Old Delhi to a modern eating chain with more than 150 franchises in India and worldwide. [35] [36] [37]