NEW DELHI, India – India's butter chicken lives among that rarefied pantheon of dishes that is well-loved at home and well-traveled: a smoky, cooked chicken smothered in a bright sauce of tomato ...

For Kumar, 24, butter chicken is his comfort dish and he came with high expectations. “It’s your go-to dish if you don’t know what to order,” he said.

Butter Chicken is a much-loved Indian dish, both within the country and around the world. But who can claim they invented it? That question is the subject of a lawsuit. Our reporter tries to get ...

Butter chicken – one of India’s best-known dishes globally – is delicious and apparently also contentious, with two Indian restaurant chains doing battle in court over claims to its origins.

The specifics of butter chicken’s origins are hotly contested, but the story is said to start at a restaurant called Moti Mahal, established in 1920 in Peshawar, in modern-day Pakistan.

The two founders, Gujral and Jaggi, sold the restaurant in the '90s. They never wrote down the recipe for butter chicken. Soon after, the Gujral family created their own spin-off franchise.