Ahmed Aslam Ali, who invented popular chicken tikka masala dish in the 1970s, dies at the age of 77
Ali, originally from Punjab province in Pakistan, moved with his family to Glasgow as a young boy before opening Shish Mahal in Glasgow's west end in 1964.
Ahmed Aslam Ali, who invented the dish by improvising a sauce made from a tin of tomato soup at his restaurant Shish Mahal in the 1970s, died on Monday morning, his nephew Andleeb Ahmed said on Wednesday."The restaurant was his life. The chefs would make curry for him. I am not sure if he often ate chicken tikka masala.""Last year he was unwell, and I went to see him in hospital on Christmas Day," Ahmed said.
"Chicken tikka masala was invented in this restaurant, we used to make chicken tikka, and one day a customer said, 'I'd take some sauce with that, this is a bit dry'," Ali said.
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