Discover the priceless treasure of ancient Persia with our Neguine Saffron, the rare and prestigious red gold of spices!
Coming from the upper part of the crocus stigma, our “neguine” saffron is adorned with a vibrant ruby red, a symbol of exceptional quality. One gram of this precious saffron is enough to perfume an entire room, and you will need around 80 pistils to obtain this exceptional gram.
After a search of more than a year, we finally found this exceptional saffron, worthy of Iranian culture and its thousand-year-old history. Precious as a pearl, this saffron evokes the rich exchanges of the Silk Road, where it served as currency.
In the kitchen
Neguine Saffron is used in cooking for its aroma and also to color dishes. Like saffron rice cakes in Iran served with chicken, barberries and saffron sauce (le zerechk polo ba molr).
Saffron cultivation
This requires meticulous know-how; picking red gold requires extreme attention to detail. Added to this is a very short picking time because the saffron flower, the crocus, only blooms around twenty days a year.