{"id":55611,"date":"2019-04-12T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/natural-dyes-for-your-easter-eggs\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:22:54","slug":"natural-dyes-for-your-easter-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/en\/natural-dyes-for-your-easter-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural dyes for your Easter eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"Temps de lecture\u00a0: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\t\t
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Easter’s just around the corner<\/strong>, and for a change from the marbled eggs you find on supermarket shelves, neatly wrapped in their hard plastic shells, like every year we’re racking our brains to find a nice, natural alternative<\/strong> that’s easy on the eyes!<\/p>

So we decided to try out natural dyes to color our Easter eggs<\/strong>, and the results are amazing – with no waste, of course! Each egg becomes a little work of art, with different shades and subtle nuances… The chickens would be delighted! <\/p>

\"Easter<\/p>

All you need are a few ingredients<\/strong>, which you can easily find at your local market at this time of year, and in your cupboards! A few vegetables<\/strong>, spices<\/strong>, water, vinegar and a little patience. <\/p>

In fact, without realizing it, our kitchens are full of natural dyes…<\/h3><\/blockquote>

Turmeric for the yellow<\/strong>…<\/p>

Purple kale<\/a> for light blue<\/strong>…<\/p>

A beautiful red cabbage for dark blue<\/strong>…<\/p>

Beet for pink<\/strong>…<\/p>

And vinegar to fix it.<\/p>

Well, the pink was the least satisfactory shade in the test; it was a rather bland beige that came out… On the other hand, the yellows are luminous and the blues deep or gradient, depending on the results. <\/p>

So, shall we go for it?<\/b><\/h3>

Implementation : <\/h3>

For all recipes, it’s best tostart by cooking your hard-boiled eggs for 10-12 minutes<\/strong>, except for the yolk, which can be cooked directly in the turmeric.<\/p>

That’s all there is to it!<\/p>

  • For yellow<\/em><\/b><\/li><\/ul>

    Boil 500ml water with 3 tbsp turmeric. Dip in egg and cook for 10-12min with 1tsp white vinegar. <\/p>

    • For reddish-brown <\/em><\/b><\/li><\/ul>

      Use your red and\/or yellow onion skins, about 2 large handfuls.<\/p>

      Boil in 500ml of water with 1 centilitre of white vinegar. Remove from heat and leave for 30 min. <\/p>

      Then dip the eggs in the liquid and leave to stand for 6 hours.<\/p>

      • For blue<\/em><\/b><\/li><\/ul>

        You have 2 options: cabbage or hibiscus.<\/strong><\/p>

        With cabbage:<\/strong> We used purple kale and red cabbage juice. The kale<\/b> gave a pastel<\/b>, slightly turquoise blue<\/b>, and the red cabbage <\/b>a beautiful duck blue<\/b>. <\/p>

        1. Start by chopping the vegetables and cooking them in a pan of water for 20 minutes.<\/li>
        2. Once cooked, strain the juice – and eat your vegetables, so there’s no waste \ud83d\ude42<\/li>
        3. Bring the juice to the boil, adding 1 tablespoon of white vinegar. Remove from heat and dip in eggs. <\/li>
        4. Leave to stand for 30 min to several hours, checking regularly. The longer the cooking time, the darker the blue. <\/li><\/ol>
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          With hibiscus: <\/strong><\/p>

          For raw eggs: <\/p>

          • pour a cup of dried herbs or two sachets of hibiscus tea directly into a pan of cold water with your eggs.<\/li>
          • Bring to the boil for at least 15 minutes.<\/li>
          • Leave to cool. Cover and refrigerate for several hours. <\/li><\/ul>

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            For eggs that are already hard-boiled: <\/p>

            • Pour your hibiscus decoction over the hard-boiled eggs in a container (they should be completely submerged).<\/p><\/div><\/li>

            • Cover and refrigerate for several hours.<\/p><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>

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              • And the pink…<\/em><\/b><\/li><\/ul>

                Blend a large beet, still raw, in a blender with 2dl cold water.<\/p>

                Transfer to a large bowl or saucepan, add 1 tbsp white vinegar and immerse the previously cooked eggs for 2 hours.<\/p>

                And that’s all there is to making beautiful natural dyes for your Easter eggs.<\/p>

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                Temps de lecture\u00a0: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Easter’s just around the corner, and for a change from the marbled eggs you find on supermarket shelves, neatly wrapped in their hard plastic shells, like every year we’re racking our brains to find a nice, natural alternative that’s easy on the eyes! So we decided to try out natural dyes to color our Easter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5144,5138,5141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anti-waste-tips","category-recipes","category-zero-waste-tips"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/d02d0-dea1bc_0bd98202febe43a0a032c47f3b7426dfmv2.jpg?fit=1086%2C724&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55612,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55611\/revisions\/55612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lespaillettesvertes.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}