Dye Easter eggs naturally: This is how it works without artificial colors

Dye Easter eggs naturally
Instructions and tips for naturally colored Easter eggs

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Claudia Enders

Dye Easter eggs naturally – it’s really easy! Most of the time, you already have the ingredients at home anyway, and they are certainly purely plant-based. Here you can find out how to do it!

Coloring Easter eggs: basics and tips

  • White Eggs: If you dye white eggs with natural means, you will get bright and bright colors.
  • Brown Eggs: These eggs acquire a darker shade when dyed. In combination with turmeric, the result is a strong orange. With certain ingredients, such as dyeing in a red cabbage decoction, a gray result is to be expected.
  • the Colors can be intensifiedby you potash or add an iron nail to the dye broth.
  • if you tone down the color a bit want, add something Vinegar added.

Coloring eggs: preparations

  • Clean the eggs before dyeing: You can remove the best before date from the shell with a little vinegar.
  • Boil eggs: Fill a saucepan with lukewarm water and add the eggs directly into it. Then bring the water to a boil. Let the eggs boil for at least 10 minutes and then rinse them with cold water.

A notice: It is not necessary to pierce the eggs. It reduces the shelf life of the eggs and causes paint to get inside the Easter egg.

Dye Easter eggs naturally: Here’s how

These colors succeed with the following ingredients:

  • Yellow: fresh turmeric, chamomile flowers
  • golden brown: onion skins
  • Red: red onion skins, beetroot, mallow tea
  • Red to Brown: Elderberry juice
  • Gray to Blue: Hibiscus flower tea
  • Blue to Purple: fresh red cabbage, blueberries or elderberries
  • Green: A green hue is difficult to obtain. However, spinach and nettle offer potential here.
  • Brown: Coffee

Utils:

  • Enamel pot (stainless steel pots may affect the color result or traces of color may remain)
  • old mason jars or small bowls
  • spoon
  • kitchen towels

To dye Easter eggs naturally, a color brew needed. Depending on the ingredient, this is produced differently:

Dye Easter eggs naturally with turmeric

  1. Add three to four teaspoons of turmeric to a liter of water, mix the powder thoroughly and let the mixture sit for half an hour.
  2. Then boil it for another half hour.
  3. Once the broth has cooled, you can use it to color the eggs.

Coloring Easter eggs with onion skins

  1. Add a handful of onion skins to 500 milliliters of water and bring to a boil.
  2. After about 20 minutes, the color brew is ready and still needs to cool down.

Dye Easter eggs with coffee

  1. Add 50 grams of ground coffee to two liters of water and bring the mixture to a boil in a saucepan.
  2. Reduce the heat and let it simmer for about half an hour.
  3. After cooling you can start coloring.

Dye Easter eggs naturally with vegetables

  1. Vegetables such as red cabbage or spinach must be cut very small so that the color brew is intense. Weigh 500 grams of the vegetables, cut them into small pieces and fill them up in a saucepan with a liter of water.
  2. Let everything cook for 30 to 40 minutes.
  3. Then sieve the color brew and let it cool down.

Tip: The soft boiled vegetables are ideal for further processing in a dish.

Dye Easter eggs with berries, flowers or leaves

  1. Add two liters of water to 100 grams of natural material.
  2. Let the natural ingredients soak for a few hours and then boil the brew for an hour.

Dye Easter eggs naturally in the dye broth

  1. After the colored broth has cooled down, you can put your boiled eggs in the bowl or pot. If the eggs are still warm, they usually take on the color better. Make sure they are completely covered by the broth.
  2. Keep moving the Easter eggs back and forth with a spoon. This way the color is distributed better. After 30 minutes, the color tone is already quite clear in most cases. For a stronger result, you should extend the exposure time to up to three hours. The egg can even remain in the red cabbage broth overnight to achieve a nice blue colour. Delicate colors, on the other hand, succeed with a short exposure time.
  3. Then lift the eggs out of the paint pot and let them cool on a kitchen towel.
  4. After dyeing, you can rub the Easter eggs with some cooking oil or butter to give them a nice shine.

Tip: The colored brew can be stored in the fridge for a few days if you briefly boil it up again beforehand and seal it in jars.

Looking for more Easter tips? Here we have inspiration for hand lettering for Easter eggs and here are more ideas for coloring Easter eggs. Here we explain how you can blow out eggs.

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