Carthamus tinctorius · pressed at Rain-fed plots, Maharashtra
Safflower Oil
करडई तेल
Pale gold, almost flavourless, and the lightest oil we press. The Maharashtrian kitchen's answer to when you want the food to taste of the food.
Rain-fed plots to your kitchen.
- Village
- Rain-fed plots
- District
- Solapur
- State
- Maharashtra
- Harvest
- January – February
Hand-harvested from thorny heads; needs no irrigation at all.
Kardai grows where almost nothing else will — dry black soil, on residual moisture, with a thorny flower head that has to be picked by hand.
Because the seed is small and hard it needs the ghani's patience more than any other. We press slowly; anything faster and the mortar heats. The oil that comes out is the palest in our range and carries almost no aroma of its own.
That neutrality is the point. Some dishes want the oil to disappear.
- Free fatty acid
- 0.28%
- Moisture
- 0.05%
- Smoke point
- 190°C
- Oil from the seed
- 28%
What is inside
That is the whole list. No antioxidant, no anti-foaming agent, no added vitamin, no flavouring, no colour.
Goes well with
How to use it
No one has written about this oil yet. We opened in 2025 and we would rather show you an empty page than someone else’s words — if you cook with it, tell us and we will put it here.
