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Finest, Award Winning Saffron
Sara Saffron offer the freshest, finest quality saffron including Super Negin, Negin, Pushal and Organic saffron.
Sara Saffron are saffron specialists offering an award winning saffron. Through our close partnerships with farmers we can offer you the freshest, finest quality saffron at incredibly competitive prices. Learn about our premium range of saffron products.
Our association with saffron is incredibly strong and goes back over 700 years through history to include some of the greatest historical figures. Learn more about our incredible saffron adventure, our unique approach and what drives our passion for this iconic spice.
We’re passionate about what we do, about the environment and supporting the farming communities that are so essential to ensuring our premium saffron is of the freshest, finest quality. Learn more about our eco-initiatives and how we re-invest profits to support our farming communities.
Sara Saffron offer the freshest, finest quality saffron including Super Negin, Negin, Pushal and Organic saffron.
Authentic saffron tested to ISO 3632 with incredible freshness, deep colour, pungent aroma and superb flavour. 100% unadulterated … guaranteed.
Saffron packed and held in the UK to meet all quality standards and packaging specifications.
Our saffron is grown, harvested by hand and packaged using environmentally sustainable techniques and materials.
Loved by the expert judges …
This deep, dark orangey red saffron smells stunning in the jar. Each individual stamen is sitting there proudly – not a tangled mess. On adding hot water, it immediately bleeds into the water giving a glorious sunshine yellow, fragrant liquid.
It is everything you would want from saffron: intense and vibrant. Each soaked stamen tastes plump and fresh in the mouth. Incredible.
When steeped in hot water, the saffron releases a pale gold colour to the liquid. It is a rich, pinky red in its dry state. The flavour of the infusion is the distinctive metallic tang of this spice, whereas in its dry state, it smells almost fruity. It delivers intense, clear, saffron flavour to the infusion.
This has an excellent vibrant colour and a wonderful rich clean classic aroma of quality saffron.
This is pure, simple and outstanding – this is how the best quality saffron should taste. First class
We were deeply surprised by the beetroot red rather than brick red of the threads – perhaps due simply to the absence of any yellow strands. Remarkably cut, flat and even, perfectly dried, clearly super negin in quality – they grind instantly and easily without heat or the adjunct of salt and sugar and now produce a deep orange/brick red shade, deeply aromatic and impactful. Absolutely excellent… learn more
Super Negin saffron is an extra special type of saffron. It has a deep, rich red colour, incredible aroma and luxurious taste. It is used by professional chefs in the finest cuisine around the world and is our premium, most sought after saffron… super negin
Our premium quality organic Negin saffron is made from only undamaged red stigmas which are separated by hand during the harvest process. The white or yellow part of the stigma is removed…. organic saffron
We sell only the best…
Sara Saffron is a world leading supplier of superior quality, award-winning saffron sourced directly from the world’s best saffron farms. All our saffron products are tested to ISO 3632 standards and exceed Category I, or Best Quality standards in all attributes… more
How it all came to be…
Sara Saffron may be a modern business, but its roots stretch back hundreds of years. Those roots supply a thread that carry Sara Shimi, back to the Khorasan province of the Middle East – home to her ancestors. Most notably, home to Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, a great scientist and scholar… more
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Eddie Scott’s Hyderabadi Biryani & Sara Saffron
/in Knowledge, Recipes /by 5@r@_S@ffr0n_1926We are delighted to be recognised by incredible chefs like 2022 MasterChef UK Champion Eddie Scott. Eddie uses a lot of Sara saffron in his cooking, including in his winning 2022 MasterChef UK Hyderabadi biryani!
How To Make A Saffron Face Mask
/in Health Benefits, Knowledge, Recipes /by 5@r@_S@ffr0n_1926Making your own saffron face mask at home is easier than you can imagine and can add a unique touch to your beauty regimen. Saffron is known for its powerful antioxidant properties, its ability to reduce inflammation and skin-brightening effects so is a great way to get more health benefits out of your treatment routines.
How To Recognise High Quality Saffron
/in Knowledge, Recipes /by 5@r@_S@ffr0n_1926Recognising high quality saffron can be essential when making your purchase as there is a lot of fake, adulterated and old saffron floating around the global market… so beware.
Sara Saffron Achieves 3-Star Great Taste Award
/in Knowledge, Recipes /by 5@r@_S@ffr0n_1926Judged by experts at the Guild of Fine Food, Sara Saffron is the only saffron product to have been awarded a 3-star winner in this year’s Great Taste Awards.