Pure Spanish Saffron 2g Grade A Extra Superior 100% Pure Saffron (Free from Alcoholic or Animal Matter)

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Its cultivation is closely connected to the most cultured and refined civilizations in the oriental world and its spread mimics the progressive displacements of people, from East to West, which made up the different cultures in the Mediterranean Basin. Saffron pistils are hand-picked and processed with extreme precision to preserve the organoleptic and nutritional properties of the product. Saffron is famous for its use in rice dishes; however it can also be used in meat, fish and egg dishes, as well as desserts, diluting the ground threads in milk. This peculiarity, together with soil and weather conditions allows saffron from La Mancha to be considered the best in the world. Saffron can be added direct, ground or soaked in water or milk before use and then the coloured liquid used for a lighter flavour and aroma.

Despite technological advances, no system has been invented to mechanise this process; they are still hand-picked. Our spanish saffron comes from traceable producers and is grown in Spain, not just packaged in Spain like other brands.Used in dishes such as Spanish paellas, Indian biriyanis, Italian risottos and French bouillabaisse. Type: This is all red saffron, also known as ‘sargol’, which translates from Farsi as ‘top of the flower’. Planting seeds in spring, and observing the change in landscape from September to November as the saffron flowers bloomed and the penetrating aroma filled every corner of their houses.

Add a few pistils to the water when boiling spuds for yellow Spanish-style saffron potatoes (don’t discard the water – use it in a fish or chicken soup).

Back in the Middle Ages, Catalonia’s hot, dry summers and cold winters helped to make it the centre of the world’s saffron production. Saffron's taste and iodoform-like or hay-like fragrance result from the phytochemicals picrocrocin and safranal. There is much more to saffron than making your paella a vivid bright yellow - (which it won't by the way).

After harvest, the flowers are unbladed – the painstaking process of individually separating by hand each vibrant-red pistil from its parent bloom. The threads are long and red and the liquor is an attractive golden hue, a good example of a saffron. Discount Code: We can also issue a discount code for the amount and this will be issued on the same day. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Finally the red stigmas are toasted at different temperatures, a very complicated process which is passed on from generation to generation. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. With our dehydration process, we want to revive the tradition of yesteryear, when the heat produced by the embers of the kitchen fireplace would be used,” says Jaume. It’s important for us to pick the flowers when they are still closed to ensure that the properties of our saffron are not altered by the pollination of the bees, who also intend to enjoy the harvest,” says Jaume Casado Carulla.

We have been in the saffron business for 3 generations and we do it all from growing saffron, harvesting, lab testing, importing, exporting to get our pure saffron around the globe. Our Arco saffron pistils are a product of the highest quality, selected with care and attention to ensure maximum fragrance and flavor. We unlike other unscrupulous online retailers will never knowingly sell grade 2 or 3 saffron as grade 1.

The Taj Mahal Saffron is sourced from the best farms growing superior-quality flowers from which the strands are hand-picked carefully to preserve their natural properties. Saffron Essential Oil - Absolute - Extracted from the stigmas of the Saffron flower - 100% Pure and Natural - Undiluted - 0.