SAFFRON in ABRUZZO
Without any doubts saffron is one of the
most precious among the spices and the
saffron produced in Navelli is considered
to be the best in the world thanks to
its qualities. Gourmets from all over
the world appreciate it for its taste
and fragrance; but it also has healing
properties. You get the saffron from the
Crocus Sativus's stigma, i.e. the violet
Saffron flower. The spice's typical colour
is due just to the red stigma of the saffron
flower.
You need about two hundred thousand flowers
to get 1 Kg saffron in threads, that is
the most excellent kind of saffron thanks
to its taste and fragrance, even though
it takes quite a long time to prepare:
in fact, it needs to be toasted and pulverized
or to be soaked in boiling water.
Saffron comes from the Middle East; it
was introduced in Italy by a Dominican
friar around 1300. The cultivation of
saffron spread over Abruzzo and several
Italian areas but today it is cultivated
only in Navelli, the only place in Italy
where it grows with no difficulties.
... buy online [saffron].
... versione italiana su
[zafferano].