The Price Can Make You Chicken Out

The Anaarkali butter chicken, called ‘the classiest butter chicken on earth’ by its creators, is one butter chicken you need a bank loan to buy.

This is one butter chicken you need a bank loan to buy. The Anaarkali butter chicken, called ‘the classiest butter chicken on earth’ by its creators, is available to Hyderabad residents for a price of Rs 6,000. “I joke that it should cost more,” says IB Saxena, who cooked it up with his colleague Padma Prasad. Their experimentation with ingredients began eight years ago in Noida, when a local chef responsible for the tastiest butter chicken around quit work. They first made their own version once a week, scaling up to two, and sometimes three butter chickens a week. Anaarkali, with its exquisite ingredients—Evian water, for instance— was launched as a formal enterprise on 15 August. But the phone is yet to ring. “I don’t blame them,” Saxena says, “people need an endorsement.”

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