04/05/2023
Did you know you can use kitchen scraps to dye eggs? My dietitian team member, Caitlin, cleaned out her fridge and pantry to make these fun naturally-dyed Easter eggs. Swipe through to see what she used and her results! 🐣
This is great activity you can try over the long weekend from ingredients you likely already have in your kitchen. All you need is:
🧅Kitchen scraps (onion skins, purple cabbage, beets, turmeric, etc.)
💦Water
🥄Vinegar
🥚Hard boiled eggs
Directions (makes 1 cup of dye, enough to submerge 1-2 eggs):
1️⃣ Bring 1.5 cups of water and 1 cup of chopped kitchen scraps (or 1 tbsp turmeric) to a boil.
2️⃣ Simmer with the lid on for 20-30 minutes and then strain your dye into a small heat-proof container to let cool
3️⃣ Once your dye has cooled, add 1 tbsp of vinegar
4️⃣ Submerge your eggs in the dye for a few hours or overnight
Repeat with various food scraps or other colorful pantry items:
❤️Red: red onion skins
🧡Orange: yellow onion skins (this is our favorite!)
💛Yellow: turmeric
💙Blue: purple cabbage (use the rough outer leaves that you’d probably toss anyways)
💜Indigo: blueberries (you have to use whole fruit to make this one so using frozen may be more economical)
💟Pink: shredded beets
🤎Despite green being a very common vegetable colour, it’s very hard to make a green dye! The cilantro & spinach dye ended up more brown than green. But it was fun to experiment to see the results!
🖤The biggest surprise was dried hibiscus flowers! They made a deep, ruby-red broth, but ended up dyeing the eggs black!
Have you dyed eggs like this before? Comment below which colour you like the most!
