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Recipe: Saffron Lemonade
When life gives you lemons, why not turn them into a mesmerizing and refreshing drink with a touch of the exotic? Our Saffron Lemonade is the perfect embodiment of this philosophy
Recipe: Saffron Basmati Rice
Saffron rice has a delicate, floral aroma that you can’t duplicate with any other spice.
Recipe: Saffron chicken (morq-e-zafarani)
This homely Persian chicken dish makes a great weeknight dinner. Fragrant with saffron and lemon, this recipe is a great quick braise. Serve with rice sprinkled with nuts. This homely Persian chicken dish makes a great weeknight dinner. Fragrant with saffron and...
Recipe: Saffron Aioli
Dive into the world of culinary luxury with our Saffron Aioli, a luscious dipping sauce that's as beautiful as it is delicious. Saffron, often referred to as the "Red Gold," infuses this aioli with its vibrant color and delicate flavor, elevating it to the gold...
Recipe: Sweet Saffron Yoghurt
Shrikand is a fantastic amalgam of thick creamy yoghurt, musky saffron, aromatic green cardamoms and nuts for texture. It is served cold and is refreshing and satisfying enough to be a dessert without any need for cream or butter. I generally like to serve some...
Recipe: Persian Nut Bars
This is a really fab refined sugar-less healthy snack to make for the family – it also makes a great gift. I like to wrap the centres of the bars with a strip of baking paper tied on with kitchen string, so you can pick them up without getting sticky fingers....
Recipe: Gulab Jamun (Sticky Saffron-Flavoured Dumplings)
These are really delicious and one of India’s favourite little desserts. They are traditionally made with reduced milk but as that takes a lot of time and effort, many of us make them with dried milk powder instead. They are easy to make and the only two tricks to...
Recipe: Taftan (Flatbread)
Similar to Indian Naan, just lighter and flakier (and in my opinion yummier), taftan is a hearth-baked flatbread from Persia and Pakistan. It is often flavoured with saffron – as this one is – which gives it a striking golden hue and alluring flavour perfect to serve...
The Incredible History of the World’s Most Coveted Spice: Saffron
Saffron is a spice derived from the dried stigma of the flower of the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus), a species of crocus in the family Iridaceae. The history of saffron cultivation reaches back more than 3,000 years. The wild precursor of domesticated saffron crocus...