Haldwani, 1960s: the first Cream Chicken
The story goes back to the 1960s in Haldwani, in the Nainital district of India. There, the late S. Attar Singh Chawla kept working on one of his favourite recipes until it became Cream Chicken: chicken cooked in milk and cream with black pepper and green cardamom. The family recipe is made with no red chilli and no vegetable oil, and the dish is served with bread and mint chutney.