Pure Black Seeds

The seed itself, whole and untouched.

Whole Nigella sativa seeds from the same high-altitude Anatolian harvest as our oil. Small, matt black, sharply aromatic — hand-harvested, cleaned, and nothing else.

What it tastes like

Toasty and peppery with a faint bitterness, somewhere between oregano, onion seed and black pepper. A minute in a dry pan wakes the aroma up considerably — do that before you use them and you will taste the difference.

How to use them

• Scattered over flatbread, simit, börek or focaccia before baking
• Stirred through labneh, yoghurt or soft cheese
• Toasted and crushed into a rub for lamb or aubergine
• Dropped whole into pickles and brines

Sizes

100 g for trying, 500 g for a household that bakes, 1 kg for one that bakes often — or for a kitchen doing it professionally.

The bigger the bag, the less you pay per kilo:

• 100 g — £3.30, or £33.00 per kg
• 500 g — £9.00, or £18.00 per kg
• 1 kg — £15.00, or £15.00 per kg

Same seed, same harvest, same cleaning. If the 100 g pouch has earned its place in your cupboard, the 1 kg is that seed at under half the rate — ten small pouches would cost you £33.00.

Keep them in a sealed jar away from light.

Where they come from

Contract-grown for us by a small group of growers we work with directly, from a single harvest. Laboratory analysis is available on request.

This is a food product, not a medicine.