You can sprinkle the strands over sweets for an alluring appeal or soak a few strands to add bright colour and distinctive flavour to your dishes. Thanks to its high concentration of active ingredients, our saffron is able to give dishes a unique and intense flavor, enriching them with aromatic and taste notes that will not go unnoticed.

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It’s important for us to pick the flowers when they are still closed to ensure that the properties of our saffron are not altered by the pollination of the bees, who also intend to enjoy the harvest,” says Jaume Casado Carulla. There is much more to saffron than making your paella a vivid bright yellow - (which it won't by the way). The delicate crocuses are hand-picked in October, when the early-morning mists ensure that the flowers will still be closed – an essential factor when it comes to maintaining the quality of their pistils, the crocus’s female reproductive organs that will become saffron. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.

Saffron is a delicate, savoury and richly coloured spice picked from the sparse threads of the saffron crocus. Plenty culinary uses such as rice dishes, bouillabaisse, paella, cassoulet, stews, soups, dressings, ice cream. Not many people are at work at this hour – but the crocus pickers of Safrà del Montsec are hard at it because this time of day, and these precise conditions, are just what’s needed to produce the world’s very best saffron. From the very heart of La Mancha, Molineta de Minaya presents genuine saffron, full of culinary and medicinal properties for all food lovers.Saffron's taste and iodoform-like or hay-like fragrance result from the phytochemicals picrocrocin and safranal.