Saffron Pasta with Peas, Mushrooms
If you can find the time to make your own spelt pasta, the taste is delicious. The pasta becomes the star of the meal and a few flavorful bites fill one with immense eating pleasure. Otherwise spelt pasta is made by purity foods and is available at many USA health food stores.
Ingredients Pasta
1 Tbsp hot water
⅛ tsp saffron
1 ¼ cup of sifted fine organic spelt flour
⅛ tsp Himalayan pink crystal salt (optional)
1 tsp of olive oil (optional)
1 egg yolk (or can omit)
Preparing Pasta
Place the saffron in a tablespoon of hot water. Allow it to seep until cooled. Add flour and salt to the food processor. With the food processor on, add an egg through the chute; add the saffron with one tablespoon of water, and a teaspoon of olive oil to the flour in the food processor. Process until it resembles fine peas or oatmeal. I put everything in a food processor and slowly add the water, watching it so it resembles little peas. Knead it together to form a lump. Cover and let the dough rest for about an hour or longer. Bring a large pot of water to boil for the pasta. After about an hour,run the pasta dough through the pasta machine several times starting with the thickest noodle setting and continuing until it is run through the thinnest setting. You will notice as you continue to run the dough through the pasta machine eventually it begins to feel like pasta. If it is too soft, add a little more spelt flour. Once it is thin, run the flat pasta strips through the cutter making fettuccine. Place it in the salted boiling water. This will cook more quickly than dried pasta.
Ingredients Sauce
2 shallots, peeled and diced
Garlic
1 ½ C. sweet garden peas
Thyme leaves
Splash of white wine (optional) or Water
Salt and pepper to taste
Preparing the Sauce
Sauté the shallots gently. Add the peas to the mixture. Roll the basil leaves and slice them chiffonade style. Add water to the mixture and a splash of white wine. Let it simmer for at least 15 minutes so all the alcohol is burned off. Once the pasta is done, equally divide it between two plates, reserving a small portion to mix with the peas, shallots, and basil. Then divide this mixture between the two plates. Sprinkle each plate with freshly ground pepper and Himalayan pink crystal salt. A sprinkle of freshly cut basil will enhance this dish as will a squeeze of fresh lemon. If you wish a more substantial dish add a cream sauce by mixing tablespoon of spelt flour with a cup of almond milk to make a white sauce. Put a small portion in the blender.
What does saffron do?
Saffron eases the pain from cystic organs. It helps to maintain the integrity of the walls of the blood vessels so they do not burst as easily. Saffron stimulates the body to lay down blood vessels around any blockage or bursting. Cysts will bleed if blood pressure is elevated; or if the kidneys or the liver is enlarged with numerous cysts; or if there is some trauma to cystic organs. Diminish episodes of bleeding into a cyst and the associated pain by keeping blood pressure well controlled 100/70 -110/70 – 120/80; by keeping cystic kidneys and cystic liver small (sometimes this is not possible); and by minimizing trauma. I would think if we could do one more thing, this too might help diminish bursting cysts and that is to maintain the blood vessel wall intact; to maintain the integrity of the blood vessel walls. This is another thing that saffron can help accomplish. Saffron helps to:
1. Ease the pain from a cystic liver or cystic kidneys.
2. Lowers blood pressure
3. Diminishes spontaneous bursting of tiny capillaries
4. Helps diminish bursting cysts
5. Stimulates the body to lay down new blood vessels
6. Protects the integrity of DNA
7. Helps a cystic liver by increasing the metabolism of estrogen through the liver
8. Aphrodisiac effect
Any medical articles on saffron’s uses?
Saffron effects Uterus and estrus cycle 1964
Saffron both platelet aggregation inducer and inhibitor 1990
Saffron anti-tumor activity
Saffron lowers rat blood pressure. 2003
Curcurmin (saffron) coupled with garlic has an increased anti cancer activity 2004
Saffron protect platelets from aggregation 2005
Crocetin (saffron) protects Parkinson’s in rat model 2005
