Step 1 - Roast Chicken with saffron and tarragon
Ingredients
1.8- 2kg Free Range Chicken
1 ½ brown onions
4 cloves are garlic
1 satchel saffron
1 eggplant
100ml vermouth
Sprig of French tarragon
Butter
Extra-virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
Stuffing
2 thick slices of good sourdough bread – crusts removed – preferable day old.
½ onion
Zest of 1 lemon
½ tablespoon chopped French tarragon
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Saffron beurre blanc
Ingredients
150 ml good white wine
50 ml white wine vinegar
1 golden shallot
1 sachet saffron
75 ml cream
250 g butter, cut in 1/2cm cubes
Saffron loves butter, hence this recipe for what is basically a butter sauce. It is a very versatile sauce, I have used it on steak, with seafood and for breakfast on pancakes with ham and gruyère cheese!
Saffron is a flavour enhancer, when used well, you...
Saffron Gravlax
Ingredients
250g Fresh Atlantic salmon, pin bones removed (eye brow tweezers work well)
250g salt
200g white sugar
1 sachet saffron
2 tbsp dill finely chopped
1 tsp rock salt
1 tsp juniper berries
There is nothing like putting a dish on the table that looks really impressive, which you made yourself with very little effort. This recipe for gravlax is one such recipe. Curing your own salmon is so simple but...
Halloumi with Saffron and Honey
Ingredients
250g halloumi cheese
2 tbsp honey
2 tsp fresh rosemary, finely chopped
1 tbsp boiling water
10 drops saffron extract
Hot, gooey halloumi makes a great snack or addition to an antipasti platter, its biggest problem is it needs to be eaten hot before it goes back to that weird rubbery consistency, but that won’t be a problem with this recipe. This cheese will disappear as fast as you ...
Roast Chicken with saffron and tarragon
Ingredients
1.8- 2kg Free Range Chicken
1 ½ brown onions
4 cloves are garlic
1 satchel saffron
1 eggplant
100ml vermouth
Sprig of French tarragon
Butter
Extra-virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
Stuffing
2 thick slices of good sourdough bread – crusts removed – preferable day old.
½ onion
Zest of 1 lemon
½ tablespoon chopped French tarragon
1 tablespoons cho...
Step 3 - Pan fried salmon with saffron beurre blanc
Ingredients
4 salmon steaks – skin on
600 g kipfler potatoes – washed but skin on
2 tablespoons tarragon finally chopped
400 g season appropriate greens – young zucchinis, asparagus, broad beans, broccolini etc
Extra virgin olive oil
Sea salt
Pepper
Beurre Blanc
150 ml good white wine
50 ml white wine vinegar
1 golden shallot
1 sachet saffron
...
Step 4 - Rhubarb, saffron and ginger clafoutis
Ingredients
8 stalks of fresh rhubarb
4 cm piece of young ginger peeled and sliced finely
80 g caster sugar
Icing sugar to dust
Batter
1 sachet of saffron or 10 drops saffron extract
250 ml pure cream
100 g caster sugar
60 g almond meal
10 g plain flour
Pinch of salt
2 eggs
3 egg yolks
You have learnt some of the history of saffron, you’ve exp...