What to cook with saffron

114 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use saffron. 16 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Indian, Persian and Moroccan recipes.

recipes use it
114
are built around it
16
median total time
1 hr 22 min
ready in 30 minutes or less
10

Recipes built around saffron

With saffron, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with saffron

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with saffron, out of 114 recipes.

  • Rice32% of recipes
  • Onion55% of recipes
  • Cardamom28% of recipes
  • Turmeric32% of recipes
  • Almonds18% of recipes
  • Olive oil39% of recipes
  • Cinnamon26% of recipes
  • Garlic39% of recipes

Where saffron shows up

Cuisines

  • Indian24
  • Persian23
  • Moroccan17
  • Spanish14

Courses

  • Dinner45
  • Dessert24
  • Side13

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.