Butter Chicken: India’s Favourite Curry Like all great things, the creation of Butter chicken was a eureka moment for its creators. Kundal Lal Jaggi and Kundan Lal Gujral, owners of the prestigious Moti Mahal Eatery in Delhi, one fine evening, accidentally mixed the leftover tandoori chicken with a tomato gravy rich in butter and cream. It was before the partition of India, in Peshawar, at a small Indian style Dhaba called Mukhey da Dhaba, where Kundal Lal Gujral worked and later bought ...