Who cooked up butter chicken? A court seeks the answer. Plus: Madhur Jaffrey's recipe
![Butter chicken as served at the Moti Mahal restaurant in New Delhi in January 2024. The dish is the subject of a lawsuit over who has bragging rights as the originator.](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/02/29/01_gettyimages-1986214874_custom-e0918f6ba4a61771bacbbdb31f83609248828ed5.jpg)
Two families are battling for bragging rights as the inventor of the wildly popular dish. Will the truth come out? Or it could be there's another origin story involving ... British tastebuds?
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