By Julia Buckley | CNN
With its chunks of spiced chicken surrounded by a rich tomato and yogurt-based sauce, chicken tikka masala is one of the UK’s most beloved dishes.
Now, the man who is widely credited with inventing it has died at age 77, his restaurant has announced.
Ali Ahmed Aslam was widely hailed as one of the world’s top curry doyens when he is said to have invented the dish at his restaurant Shish Mahal, which he opened in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1964.
Aslam once told news agency AFP that his light bulb moment came in the 1970s, when a customer complained that the chicken tikka was too