How to make food coloring at home

If you look at the composition of many products, you can often find artificial ingredients there. Fortunately, many of them can be replaced with natural ones when cooking. The quality of food does not change, but rather will get better. Thus at home you can prepare a safe natural dye.

In cooked dishes, not only taste is important, but also appearance. That is why professional chefs pay special attention to their decoration. Of course, most of all the culinary experts try over desserts and sweets. Beautiful whorls of cream, patterns of dressing rather simply reproduce at home, as well as paint cakes and cream.

As dyes it is better to use not purchased, but prepared with your own hands. The result will also be colorful, but more secure for health. Food dye at home can be used for tinting creams, mastic, jellies, cakes, sauces.

Food coloring at home: cooking methods

Food dye at home can be obtained from various vegetables and berries. To do this, squeeze the juice out of them.

Pink and red shades are obtained from fresh or boiled beets. A small root vegetable is rubbed on a large grater and put in a saucepan. Grated beets are poured with water so that it barely covers the vegetable. Boil over low heat for 50-60 minutes. Beets are thrown back through a sieve, pouring the juice into a separate container. In the resulting liquid, add citric acid at the tip of the knife - so the color will be more resistant.

Pink shades can be obtained from the berries. For this fit: strawberry, raspberry, currant, cranberry. They are usually kneaded, after which the juice is filtered through cheesecloth.

For the staining of main dishes usually use chopped tomatoes or tomato paste. Adjust the color saturation can be sour cream or cream.

How to make a green dye? To do this, stock up on spinach. It is usually sold in bundles, fresh or in small packets, frozen. To get the dye more suitable fresh spinach. It must be washed, cut and folded into a blender. Chop the spinach, put it on gauze and squeeze the juice out of it.

In a similar way, a green dye at home is prepared from watercress. By the way, it can be used not only for desserts, but also for savory dishes. So spinach juice is used in the preparation of traditional Chinese dish Bao-Tzu. Spinach is added to yeast dough, which is then wrapped in salty stuffing. The result is green round cakes.

Delicate lilac color can be obtained from red cabbage. It is finely chopped, stewed with a small amount of water. After that, grind blender and pass the juice through cheesecloth.

Add cocoa to color brownies. It is also added to creams. Dr. A method for producing a sweet brown filling is chocolate ganache. It is prepared very simply and, in fact, is a cream that can be interbedded cakes and stuffed cakes.

For ganache, 200 ml of cream (preferably fatty, from 33 percent) is heated to a boil and poured 200 g of broken dark chocolate. The mixture is kneaded until the chocolate is completely dissolved. Chocolate ganache is left at room temperature for 40-60 minutes and then used for its intended purpose.

In a different way, a brownish tint can be obtained with roasted sugar. For this, the sugar is mixed with water in a ratio of 5 to 1. The resulting mixture is heated in a small saucepan until the sugar is dissolved. The mixture should turn brownish (while making sure that the solution does not burn, otherwise it will get an unpleasant taste). The resulting solution is used when coloring desserts and sweet dishes.

Orange color is obtained using carrots. To do this, rub it on a grater and fry on a small amount of butter until it reaches full readiness. Then the carrots are filtered through cheesecloth. The resulting liquid will be a dye.

Also a yellowish tint to the dough will help give spice saffron.

Sweet creams for cakes and pastries can be painted in pastel colors with the help of jam. For this fit currant, raspberry, strawberry.

Dyes for mastic: options

Dyes are almost always used to create jewelry from mastic. They can give color to individual pieces of fudge, of which then they mold flower glades, decorative stripes, and various figures. Basically for these purposes use the purchased concentrated food dye. Just a few drops is enough to give the mastic a rich color.

Home dyes are used a little differently. The fact is that for the saturation of staining you need to use a very large amount of juice of beets, carrots and other vegetables and berries. In this case, the mastic becomes liquid and for the density, you must constantly mix the icing sugar.

Of course, you can get a bright mastic by staining with juice, but then there is another drawback - the finished figures will get the flavor of vegetables or berries. It turns out that homemade dyes are not quite suitable for saturated color. On the other hand, you can not do without them if you want to give pasta pastel shades. For this you need only a little juice.

Making mastic: a simple recipe

In order that the mascot is colored more evenly, it is better to do it yourself.

Composition:

• American Marshmallow Marshmallow - 200 g
• Icing sugar -250 g
• Lemon juice -2 cl. l
• Butter -2 tbsp. l

Cooking:

1. Put all ingredients in one bowl and put in a microwave. Heat until everything melts.
2. From the resulting soft mass, resembling clay, you can immediately sculpt or pre-paint it.
3. For staining mastic is better divided into small portions. On small pieces you can choose the desired shade by mixing the juice of beets, carrots, spinach. Having picked up the necessary color, juice drip on mastic and begin to carefully interfere and change the piece.

Dyes for mastic can be used not only for uniform coloring, but also to create beautiful effects.

With a few drops of juice, you can give the mastic marble shades. To do this, put on a paste a few drops of dye in different places. Then pull it into a sausage and connect the edges. Next, you should continue to add a dye and then pull out and connect the mastic. Remember that the amount of dye to create marble patterns should be small. Also, do not knead the fudge for a long time - you can get a monochromatic color.

Homemade dyes are absolutely safe and can be used for coloring creams, sauces, baking. With their help, some tinted mastic and homemade yogurt. Preparation of dyes is reduced to the fact that juice or solution is obtained from certain products, which are then used for dyeing.