Radiant Like The Sun
More recently, saffron has attracted a renewed interest for its use in cosmetics.Since ancient times, saffron has been used for…
Grow Your Own Spice!
Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world, and Iran is responsible for over 90 percent of its production. Iranian saffron is mostly grown in the northeast, where the climate is extremely saffron friendly.
Saffron in Popular Literature
In one early eighteenth-century miniature from Rajas-than, used to illustrate a ragmala (a poem, consisting of twelve verses), we get to see saffron do triple duty, not only as a colorant, but as a fixative to the greenish hues and as part of the poetic mode of the depicted scene:
The Modern Market
It takes about 150,000 flowers to produce a kilogram of saffron. Little wonder, then, that the precious powder has spawned a trade rife with the kind of deceptions and distortions typical of traffic in gems or illicit drugs: cheap substitutes, diluted shipments, false labeling. Today, a battle over the future of the ‘gold of cuisine’ is underway, as its world is transformed by speculation and market upheaval.
Chicken Roulade with Saffron Potato Puree
By: Mehdi Zokaei Rad Ingredients Chicken Roulade 2pcs medium chicken breast 1tsp mustard 2tsp sour lemon juice
How to Prepare Saffron
Put the stigmas in a grinder, add a pinch of sugar which helps with better grinding and
Saffron The Salubrious Spice
Though saffron is best known for its use in traditional Persian medicine, it was also used by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians…
The Ancient World and the Silk Road
It was those skilled sailors from the Levant, the Phoenicians, who brought saffron both in processed form and its corms to their homeland...
Saffron Meatball
By: Mehdi Zokaei Rad Ingredients Meatball 300g Minced beef 50g Grated onion 3 Cloves pureed garlic 1
Saffron Poached Pear
By: Mehdi Zokaei Rad Ingredients: Poached Pear 2 medium Pears 250ml Barberry juice (substitute with orange juice
Saffron Panna Cotta
By: Mehdi Zokaei Rad Ingredients Saffron panna cotta 60g Sugar 300ml Cream 200ml Milk 4g Gelatin powder
Saffron Risotto
By: Mehdi Zokaei Rad Ingredients Saffron risotto 1 red onion finely chopped 2 cloves chopped garlic 4-5
Saffron, the Sacred Flower of the Ancient Past
was considered the source of wild saffron because of a series of wall frescoes unearthed there in the Akrotiri settlement…
