Bring water, salt, and saffron to a boil in a medium saucepan with a lid. Once the water, salt, and saffron come to a boil add the rice and coconut milk, cover and turn down to medium-low (continue to turn down slightly if it threatens to boil over, this is different on each stove).
Cook, covered, without stirring for 20 minutes. Remove from heat and keep covered until you're ready to serve.
The most common error with cooking rice is opening up the lid and stirring it! The rice never needs to be stirred, and if you do it will break apart as it cooks into a gummy mess.
The second issue is it boiling over on the stove once covered. If that happens, remove the pan from heat for a moment and adjust the burner down half a notch. This is usually 2 on my current gas stove, and in other kitchens it has been anywhere from '2' to '3'.
Once you wrap your head around doing less, not more, rice is easy easy easy to make!
Recipe by Cara Comini of Health Home and Happiness. Visit us at healthomeandhappiness.com