Saffron has been grown in Kashmir since the Mughal period, which began in the 16th century when saffron bulbs — a species of crocus —were brought from Iran . Cultivation is an elaborate and painstaking process: It takes about 170,000 purple flowers and many, many willow baskets to collect one kg of saffron. On cold autumn morning's men, women in more than 200 villages in the District of Pampore area of southern Kashmir flock to the fields, pick the flowers and heap them into wicker baskets. The bulbs of the Crocus sativa flower are sown in May and June and the flower is harvested in November. A visit to the place during October and November months when the flowers have just sprouted out of the ground is a marvelous, breathtaking sight to watch and to be remembered for the whole life.

SAFFRON ` A Vegetable Gold ' is unique product with a rich combination of its main constituents:

Glycoside Crocine : has strong coloring capacity.
Glycoside Picrocrocine : gives bitter flavor and aromatic odour.
Different Essential Oils : important one being Safranal

Saffron plant is a small perennial herb with globular corms which attain a size of about 4 to 5 cm in diameter at maturity. Propagation of the Saffron plant is through corms. The germinating corms usually give out 6 to 9 narrow needle like reddish orange stigma surrounded by 4 or 5 embraneous, violet mauve scale.

Saffron has been widely used throughout the world due to its innumerable effect on the human body. Saffron is mainly used as an important ingredient in medicines, dyes, perfumes and above all as a Spice.

In Kashmir it is widely used in Wazwan THUS owing its super excellence largely to it, and hence began to be rewarded as prestigious. It is also used in Kehwa, to which it adds its golden color due to its coloring property and makes it tastier.
Saffron with fascinating fragrance, pleasant flavour and beautiful colour is used in all the dishes of Pulao, Rice, Noodles, Biryani, curries, Vegetables, Chickens, Mutton, Fishes, Ice creams, Sweets, Bakery etc to make the dishes more tasty and digestive.

We offer the following :

Saffron Mongra Red Filament Long Cut A Grade Coupe

Kashmir Kessar Mart offers Saffron of Excellence under the award winning Brands (SUN BRAND SAFFRON and APPLE BRAND SAFFRON)

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