Moti Mahal is a restaurant. After the

partition of India The Partition of British India in 1947 was the Partition (politics), change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions: ...

in 1947, the Moti Mahal in Delhi was founded by

Kundan Lal Gujral Kundan Lal Gujral (c.1902 - 1997) was an Indian chef and restaurateur based in New Delhi. He, along with Kundan Lal Jaggi invented several Indian dishes which have since become popular worldwide, including Butter chicken, Paneer makhani, Tandoo ...

Kundan Lal Jaggi Kundan Lal Jaggi (10 September 1924 – 4 March 2018), was an Indian chef and restaurateur based in New Delhi. He along with Kundan Lal Gujral is credited with the invention of Butter chicken, Tandoori chicken, Dal makhani, Paneer makhani and the ...

and Thakur Dass as one of the first restaurants to introduce the Punjabi cuisine to the rest of the world.

History

Moti Mahal was founded by

, Thakur Dass and

, in

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders wi ...

in 1947. They worked at a small eatery called ''Moti Mahal'', owned by a man named Mokha Singh in

Peshawar Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...

, from the 1920s to 1947. A piece of a tandoori chicken

After the

in 1947, they fled to

with their families. In

, the three partners bought a ''thara'' (booth) in the Daryaganj area, then considered a newer part of Old Delhi and then they started Moti Mahal, Daryaganj Moti Mahal further went on to invent butter chicken and dal makhani.

References

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