Iranian and Afghan cooks commonly grind saffron threads into a fine powder before steeping it in warm water. If your saffron still has some of its natural moisture, a pinch of sugar or salt can ...

Sargol: Literally translated from the Persian language of Farsi as the flower’s head’, this saffron comes from the red tips of the stigma without any yellow or white threads (styles).

A new agricultural frontier is blooming in South Africa, with saffron offering a highly lucrative opportunity for farmers.

Although the threads appear dark red ... A serving of halwa, a Persian dessert, and some saffron water that flavored it. (Bill St. John, Special to The Denver Post) Remove the seeds from the ...

Saffron threads are the stigmas found in the center ... were first domesticated as a crop in either what is now modern-day Iran or on the southwestern islands of Greece. Once it became used ...

“You need people to actually pull it (the saffron threads) off individually,” she ... Saffron is largely grown in Greece, Iran, Morocco and India, so it’s expensive to import it here to ...