Recipes Including Saffron
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Saffron Pulao with cardamom, cinnamon and basmati rice
A really simple rice based recipe that is a brilliant accompaniment to an Indian meal. Saffron lends a lovely colour and flavour to this pulao along with the whole spices I have used. Use good quality saffron while cooking. […]
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Raan Musallam
Raan or Whole roast leg of lamb; served for its ostentatious presentation and long cooking time. The dish is painstakingly prepared using classic spices, marination and cooking techniques which when eaten give a sense of it all. Some of the […]
Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world. It’s derived from the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus and has a deep auburn colour and sweet flavour. The stigmas can only be picked by hand and it takes 250,000 stigmas to make just half a kilo of saffron, hence its high price. The colour and flavour is intense so in Indian curries just a tiny pinch of saffron would suffice
