Saffron Yogurt Marinade
A clinging yogurt marinade carrying 25 bloomed saffron threads, garlic, ginger and onion juice, for grilled chicken, lamb or paneer.
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Saffron Recipes
Field notes from a saffron house: how to tell real saffron from dyed, what Super Negin actually means, the Afghan tea ritual, and the dishes worth spending threads on — qabuli pulao, sholeh zard, sheer yakh. Start with the saffron ritual, check our lab results, or go straight to the crystal collection.
Saffron Couscous
Instant couscous hydrated with saffron-spiked stock, forked through with butter, currants, almonds and lemon zest.
Read article →Saffron Roasted Vegetables
Cauliflower, carrots and red onion roasted hard, then finished with a loose dressing of 20 bloomed saffron threads, oil and lemon.
Read article →Saffron Overnight Oats
Rolled oats soaked overnight in saffron-bloomed milk with cardamom, yogurt and honey, topped with pistachios.
Read article →Saffron Scrambled Eggs
Soft, slow-scrambled eggs carrying 10 bloomed saffron threads, finished off the heat with cold butter and cream.
Read article →Saffron Finishing Salt
Flaky sea salt turned apricot by 30 bloomed saffron threads and dried low, plus an honest account of how much saffron a pinch really...
Read article →Saffron Aioli
A hand-whisked garlic mayonnaise carrying 20 bloomed saffron threads, with the ratio that keeps the emulsion together.
Read article →Saffron Simple Syrup
A clear one-to-one saffron syrup where the syrup itself does the blooming, cooled to 150F before the threads ever go in.
Read article →Saffron Compound Butter
Thirty saffron threads bloomed and beaten into two sticks of soft butter, rolled, chilled and cut into coins for rice, fish or corn.
Read article →Saffron Infused Honey
A small jar of saffron honey, built by blooming 25 threads in two teaspoons of warm water before they ever meet the honey.
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How to Bloom Saffron Properly
The working method for blooming saffron: twenty threads, a quarter cup of liquid at 150F, covered for fifteen to twenty minutes, then used threads...
Read article →Saffron Rose Sharbat
A keeping concentrate of saffron, sugar and rose water, stirred three tablespoons to a glass of very cold water and poured over ice with...
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Everything in the journal comes back to the same bottles: single-origin Herati Super Negin, single-origin and harvest-dated.
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The Crystal Bottle — 1 g
One gram of Super Negin in a crystal keepsake bottle. About 60 cups of tea.
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Two crystal bottles in a gold-foiled gift box — one to give, one to keep.
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The Connoisseur Jar — 5 g
For the kitchen that cooks with saffron, not around it.
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