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

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We unlike other unscrupulous online retailers will never knowingly sell grade 2 or 3 saffron as grade 1. Saffron pistils are hand-picked and processed with extreme precision to preserve the organoleptic and nutritional properties of the product. In Spain saffron is a key ingredient in many delicious recipes such as Paella, Pote Gallego or Fabada. The threads are long and red and the liquor is an attractive golden hue, a good example of a saffron.

Saffron is a delicate, savoury and richly coloured spice picked from the sparse threads of the saffron crocus. In any case, it is important to use only a small amount of saffron pistils, as their flavor is very intense and can easily cover other flavors. Saffron's taste and iodoform-like or hay-like fragrance result from the phytochemicals picrocrocin and safranal. It’s not surprising to learn that saffron is the world’s most highly prized spice when you see what goes into it when it’s produced properly, the way it is at Safrà del Montsec.These stigmas have to be hand-picked and toasted almost immediately, a process which is unique and characteristic of La Mancha area. 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. 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. After harvest, the flowers are unbladed – the painstaking process of individually separating by hand each vibrant-red pistil from its parent bloom. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

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. Saffron is also fantastic infused into a savoury cream sauce, or sweet with saffron infused ice cream or panna cotta. LemonSalt have taken every care to ensure that the information is accurate but we strongly recommend that you read the product packaging before use. a) leave you a notification of their unsuccessful attempt to deliver and details of how you can contact them to receive your parcel. As soon as you open the bag that it came with, you will find out how aromatic this Golden saffron is?

Our spanish saffron comes from traceable producers and is grown in Spain, not just packaged in Spain like other brands. The saffron harvested and selected using traditional processes to take the best care of every strand and preserve all the quality of the saffron. From the very heart of La Mancha, Molineta de Minaya presents genuine saffron, full of culinary and medicinal properties for all food lovers. Our saffron threads have a flame coloured tail and slight graduation in colour, your assurance that it’s 100% pure, never died or otherwise adulterated. Other benefits include eye health, improving brain functions, reducing anxiety and also helps with weight loss goals.

Saffron and its components may reduce cholesterol and lipid levels, potentially contributing to better weight control. Plenty culinary uses such as rice dishes, bouillabaisse, paella, cassoulet, stews, soups, dressings, ice cream. There is much more to saffron than making your paella a vivid bright yellow - (which it won't by the way). For cooking release, 1/2 teaspoon of threatened warm water for about 10 minutes and you will see the yellow saffron color start releasing. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings.

The stigmas can only be picked by hand and its estimated that it takes 250,000 stigmas to make just half a kilo of saffron, hence why Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world. 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. The result of this attention to detail is a premium saffron with a vivid fragrance and intense depth of flavour.This peculiarity, together with soil and weather conditions allows saffron from La Mancha to be considered the best in the world. Herati Saffron is cultivated in the desert of western Afghanistan, where it has been growing for millennia. 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). Saffron is considered the world's most expensive spice and comes from the stigma, the tiny strands at the flower's centre of the "saffron crocus". 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.