Only a few chefs in the history of gastronomy have been credited for inventing a cuisines or even a dish.
Kundan Lal Gujral is one of them. He put the Indian cuisine on the world culinary map.
The India – Pakistan partition forced great chefs to move to India. This led to the emergence of a new culinary chapter.
One such man was Kundan Lal Gujral, who started Moti Mahal in 1920 in Peshawar. The Peshawari phenomenon set up his second eatery in Daryaganj in 1947 following the partition and soon acquired worldwide patronage and soon became an institution.
Moti Mahal’s guest list consisted of great people Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, former President Zakir Hussain, the Shah of Khan, Kennedeys and ex USSR Premier Nikita Khursev amongst others.
Khursev was so impressed by the Indian Tandoori food served at Moti Mahal that he invited Kundan to set up Moti Mahal in Moscow at a trade fair for a month in 1960’s.
The legacy of Moti Mahal’s Tandoori trail continues….
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