How to make food dye

How to make food dye

In glossy magazines, the pictures with appetizing dishes decorated with colored creams. Make a culinary masterpiece will not be difficult. Ingredients for food dye are natural. Therefore, they will not harm health, unlike supplements in the store products.

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For making red food dye:

  1. You need one small beet. Clean it from the peel and spend on the grater. Put the root in the pan and fill it with water, close the lid. Put the decoction on a weak fire and boil 45-60 minutes. Add 1/2 C.L. Lemonic acid for giving saturation color. When the decoction cools, strain it through a sieve.
  2. Ceiling of currant berries, cherries, cranberries or raspberries. Use the resulting juice.
  3. Take advantage of the pulp of tomatoes or boil the red cabbage. Also, the red shade is obtained from a powder of red paprika and a boiled pomegranate juice.

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To get a yellow food dye:

  1. Grind saffron leaves. Place them in the vessel and add vodka. For children's dishes, it is better to use warm water. Put the mixture in a dark place on 1 day. Throwing the tincture.
  2. Sutitate the lemon zest on the grater. Put the mixture into the gauze and press the juice.
  3. Mix the turmeric powder with water. The proportions depend on the desired paint intensity.

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Ways to make a blue food dye:

  1. Cut fine red cabbage. Place it into the pan and boil for 15-20 minutes on slow fire. Decoration.
  2. Blue or purple shade give juice from blueberries, grapes or eggplants.
  3. Get indigo-carmine dye in the pharmacy. This is a dark blue pasta. Dissolve it in water to the desired shade.

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Prepare a green food dye like this:

  1. Plit the spinach through a meat grinder or through a blender. Wrap the resulting mass in the gauze and squeeze. So it turns out a light green color.
  2. To get a saturated color, put the spinach into a saucepan, fill it with water. Boil on slow heat 35-40 minutes.
  3. Pistachio shade will arise when mixing a blue and yellow dye.

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For bright orange color:

  1. Stodit 100 g of carrots and put it in the pan. Fry carrots on a strong heat, adding 100 g of butter. After 2-3 minutes, turn off the stove. When the mixture is cooled, squeeze it through the gauze. If there is no time for cooking, use the shop carrot juice.
  2. Take the zest of orange or mandarin and soda it on a shallow grater. Next, move the juice through the gauze.

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To obtain a brown food dye at home:

  1. Mix sugar with water in a 5: 1 ratio. Fry the mixture in a pan before receiving a dark mass. Constantly mix the sugar mass with a wooden wand so that there are no lumps. Well roasted sugar gives a bright brown tone. Turn off the plate, add some more water. Solution strain through the sieve.
  2. A pleasant chocolate shade gives chocolate, coffee and cocoa powder.

Try to make the food dye home, it will give your sophistication to your dishes. Your table will be impeccable for any holiday. Just remember that the shelf life of a homely food dye is small. Better use it immediately or store in a dark place.

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