Trying Innovative but Traditional Saffron Recipes

Trying Innovative but Traditional Saffron Recipes

Well you often think of inventing your own recipes. But how does the idea strike? However, picking a recipe from search engines and mixing it with your own ideas won’t work well, but yes you may get a helpful recipe hint which could help you make something exciting and delectable.

You can make recipe with respect to its cuisine course or ingredients. One of the ingredients which can really add flavor, aroma, fragrance and taste to your dish is saffron. It highlights the dish.

These days saffron is used in all kinds of dishes.

Ranging from Italian to Indian recipe, appetizers to the main course, Saffron plays a crucial role in every dish.

Sweet Dish from INDIA

Payasam (A rich Indian Dessert of Raisins and Saffron Vermicelli)

Ingredients:

• Unsalted margarine, 2 tbsp
• Uncooked Vermicelli, broken into 1 inch pieces
• Boiling water, ½ cup
• Skim milk, 1 cup
• Granulated Sugar, 1 tbsp
• Whole Saffron, grounded
• Golden Raisins, ¼ cup
• Ground cardamom, 1/8 tbsp

Procedure:

• In a deep bottom, skillet, add margarine over medium flame and add vermicelli
• Sauté, and stir continuously until it turns light brown in color.
• Reduce heat and add water, until it gets tender for at least 5minutes
• Add milk, sugar, saffron and cook for 5 minutes more.
• Add raisins and cardamom

The beauty of using an ingredient like Saffron provides a cent percent assurance that the recipe will be rich in texture. If you are capable of copying a recipe, you have the ability to create your own recipe too. The best way is to start struggling with an easy recipe which you know well about.

Saffron Yogurt Recipe from India

Shrikhand (transform your regular curd into a fragile dish)

• Thick Curd, 1kg
• Grounded Sugar, ¾ cup
• Saffron Strands, few
• Warm Milk, 1 tbsp
• Cardamom powder, 2 tsp
• Almond and Pistachio, chopped finely for garnishing

Procedure

• Drain off all the water of the curd by hanging it in a muslin cloth for sometime
• Mix saffron in milk till it dissolves
• Combine the hung curd with saffron dissolved in milk, sugar, cardamom and churn with a blender.
• Garnish with pistachio and almonds and serve

Innovating Saffron with Chicken and Seafood

Rather than going with the traditional step of rubbing the spices over the chicken, make a new spicy sauce and cook the separately from the chicken. This way the mixture of the spices won’t ever go wrong and you escape the chance of ruining the complete chicken.

Substituting an ingredient with another is a type of recipe invention because the original meal was different from the recipe made. Thus, the only thing you need to make an innovative recipe is an inventive streak along with a little bit of courage. You don’t have to be a chef in order to create a new dish. Saffron can help you in a number of ways in creating an innovative and sumptuous dish. It can change the way the dish was presented earlier.

Saffron Seafood Soup (A rich taste of saffron with other seafood ingredients like shellfish, prawns, lobster)

 

Ingredients:

• Brown onion, 1
• Leek, 1
• Garlic clove, 1
• Tomato paste, 1 tbsp
• Herbal Spices, 2tbsp
• Fish Stock, 1 cube
• Water, 250 ml
• White wine, 200 ml
• Saffron
• Cream, 300 ml
• White fish, 400 gm
• Salmon, 300 gm

Procedure

• Fry leek, garlic clove and onion in a pot
• Mix tomato paste along with herbal spices
• Add wine to dilute it and sauté for 5 minutes
• Add 250ml of water along with the stock cube, crème, saffron and simmer more for around 15 minutes
• Add the fish chopped in cubes and simmer for 5 minutes more
• Serve it hot with crusty bread

Thus, including saffron as an ingredient in any dish will not only enhance the taste,aroma and flavor of the food but also give it a rich color and texture.

It truly depends on the kind of cuisine which you opt to choose. The Mughlai, Indian and Persian cuisine follow the ingredients which mostly include saffron. Thus, your favorite meat or fish recipe can have all the usual spices along with the saffron. This will truly be a new innovation with a traditional touch.

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