[Music] saffron is the most precious spice not only in iran but also in the world it is so precious that we call it red goat over 80 of the saffron in the world is produced here in iran we not only use it for garnishing our food but also we use it in tea in coffee and even as medicine we're gonna find out how saffron is made how to use it in our food in medicine how to look for a quality saffron and also we're gonna learn how to prepare and use it in our food so
today we are with abe a saffron specialist um so of it how this saffron is made so we have two different type brokers we have spring broccolis and atom crocus which saffron is an autumn crop which the harvest started from like september and early october and this kind of crocus usually grow in high altitude so iran is a highland very suited for this kind of plant so this is the bulb and the bulb can live around like seven to eight nine years and every year it has like four to seven shoots of flowers so actually
as you see this is the flower and each flower has only three pistol so the quality of saffron as the pistol is longer broader and bright color is better quality so which means usually the first harvest of every year is the best quality so and especially if it's a young bulb which means like three to four five years old bulb and the first harvest that makes the best result so the saffron started from here to the top so the most property of saffron is in the top part of the pistol so tell me how many
flowers does it take to give you one gram well good question like we have a bouquet here so this sponge comes out of over a thousand of flowers so 1 000 flowers approximately which means over 3 000 pistols gives you 10 gram of saffron so tell me about the different qualities of saffron for example what is the difference between these saffrons well reyna at the first look all looks the same but very big difference between all of these kind of saffron so first of all i would like to show you this one so which is
our average quality well this is very good quality usually we sell this quality as you see the pistols are shorter or some of them are broken yeah so we sell this quality to the restaurants and ice cream shops which the coloration and the aroma is really good and it's more economical it's cheaper than other makes sense and we have other qualities like this one so this one also it's considered as the first harvest so as you see the pistols are longer in this one it smells really good yeah so in one harvest of the farm
so all there is the first harvest the second harvest the third harvest they all kept separate so this is from one farm this one is really good cook at home or if i show you this one as you see this one the pistols are a bit longer and the top part is even broader yeah so in the laboratories they can distinguish what's the difference of the property like how much property which mean which is crocin inside proposal so crocin is what makes the blood circulation faster and affected directly on the nerves so this one has
the highest amount of crocin so too expensive to use it for food true so it has very high amount of croissant which used for like anxiety depression alzheimer parkinson what it does actually it connecting disconnected nerves interesting yeah does it makes you happier oh yeah actually absolutely like if you take this much saffron a day you cannot stop laughing okay of it how do we use saffron good question so the best way is when you want to buy saffron you should buy as pistol and nuts nut powder but when you want to use it the
best way is to powder it for food so here i have nine pistols and nine pistols which means like three flowers here three flowers here so i just put the nine pistols in this one and i will grind the other knife here so it's very easy it's very crispy so just put it in a piece of paper so the best way is you better use grinder or motor and pestle okay to grind it but i just use a piece of paper because i want to grind only nine pistols and i put it in this little
cup so we have same quality of saffron same amount and now we just add water hot water in this one and also in this one wow so you see when it's grinded there are more surface area to be able to release more color and aroma and property but if you want to brew it for drinking the best way you just keep the pistols just like this brew it like this but for a longer time don't boil saffron is not good okay it how long will it last well it depends how often do you use saffron
so this is how like almost one grams look like one gram so one gram saffron if you want to use for like drinking and medicine usually 0.1 to 0.2 gram of saffron is good for one person for one day so like if you divide it on like five to ten parts like each part is for one day but if you want to cook usually a third of a gram is this much is enough for four people to make a dish like to making risotto okay yeah well saffron usually lasts for like two to three years
so but after three years it's gonna be like darker and it it will lose the flavor and aroma and it's better to use the saffron of the year always why because it lose the flavor and it's better to keep it in a dry place so the humidity is not really good for saffron i believe that saffron is one of deepest souvenirs that people can buy when they are in iran so how much saffron do people usually buy when they are buying it as a souvenir well if you want to just take as a souvenir like
two three grams is good it's not too too little it's not too much but it depends what quality you want to buy and how often your friends use saffron okay so like for example how much saffron will be in this one well this container is for usually for 10 grams so we can feel like 7 8 to 10 grams of the top quality but if you take like the restaurant quality because it's heavier and smaller you can feel like over 20 grams in this little box okay avett is there any final point that you want
to mention about saffron yeah well saffron is good for everyone for everything but the only time you should not use saffron especially for ladies during pregnancy and period time is it because of the blood circulation exactly so because it makes blood circulation especially for pregnant women is not recommended so in all time that's a good point in the old time if they want to make abortion they may plenty of saffron oh wow to make abortion without depression without being happy right yeah so after delivery it's good because after delivery usually brings depression and it's anti-depression
it's good to use saffron so guys this was everything you needed to know before buying saffron and how to use it we talked about how saffron is made how to use it in our food what kind to buy and of course how much to buy so of it thank you so much for the time that you have allocated and to you guys we hope to see you guys in iran one day soon and until that time see you in the next video
