How to make Dyed Eggs for Easter

Make your dyed eggs for Easter this year! It is cheaper and your kids can have a lot of fun.

Easter and Dyed eggs are traditions. This easy method of making dyed eggs at home not only saves money but you can use natural colours from your pantry or food-based colours. Perfectly safe to eat.

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• This Dyed Eggs recipe and me
• Why MSK Dyed Eggs recipe
• Let's get started
• For Your Questions
• For your Easter Celebrations
• Recipe card
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Why MSK Dyed Eggs recipe:

Make this recipe as 

• As usual, it is easy
• Looks good
• Make it a project with kids

Let's get started:

These are the ingredients you will need. For quantities please check the recipe card.

Ingredients:

• Eggs
• Water
• Salt
• Vinegar
• Food colours/ Natural clours
• Oil 

Method:

Before we make dyed eggs let us boil eggs on the stovetop

The traditional method of making boiled eggs is adding eggs to boiling water but I follow this method.

• In a big pot add the eggs.
• Cover with water and add salt. The thumb rule for the amount of salt is generally 1 tablespoon for 6 eggs. Adding makes peeling of eggs easy.
• Place the pot on the stovetop on high flame bring to a boil.
• Once the water starts boiling lower the flame, why? Any liquid once it starts boiling needs minimum heat to continue boiling. The excess heat you supply on high flame is a waste.
• For hard-boiled eggs Boil for 8-10 minutes then remove the eggs to cool completely.

Now things will get interesting let us dye our eggs.

• In a deep bowl, cup add hot water, 1 teaspoon of vinegar and food colour. If using a liquid colour you will need 20-25 drops for gel-based colours 1-2 teaspoon is enough. (For intense colours use more colour). Mix.
• Lower the egg in the liquid.
• Turn the egg in the cup so that the eggs are evenly coloured. 
• Remove with a spoon when you are happy with the colour. 
• Dry and apply the oil on the shell for a glossy shell.

If you plan to use natural colours you will need

•  to boil the 1-litre water, with 2 tablespoon vinegar
• Add the ingredient you plan to use. ( I have used turmeric here). Lower the heat and boil for 30 minutes.
• Cool the boiled water and strain.
• In the strained liquid add the boiled eggs.
• Turn the egg in the cup so that the eggs are evenly coloured. 
• Remove with a spoon when you are happy with the colour. 
• Dry and apply the oil on the shell for a glossy shell.

Substitutes:

• Swap the vinegar with lemon juice the proportion is the same 1 teaspoon of vinegar with 1 teaspoon of lemon juice.
• Use natural colours in place of artificial colours. There are plenty like beets, onion skins, chilli powder, turmeric, purple cabbage, blueberries, spinach, red wine, tea.

Variations:

• I had seen on Instagram on Binal Valand's Instagram and loved it. I need to improve my technique!

Equipment:

• A pot to boil the eggs
• Spoons
• Cups or bowls to soak the eggs
• Paper towels/ newspaper
• Egg container to dry the eggs

How to serve:

• Brightly coloured eggs are part of the Easter egg basket.
• I am serving them as plain boiled eggs.
• You can always make deviled eggs.

How to store:

• Store boiled eggs in the fridge for about a week.

For Your Questions:

Protips:

• Use fresh eggs to boil. 
• In India, the eggs are unwashed so wash them properly before boiling the eggs.
• Add salt to the water in which you plan to boil eggs. This helps in peeling the eggs easily.
• You need the vinegar or lemon juice so that the dye sticks to the eggs. Do not skip that.
• I have not used any oil but you can rub the dyed eggs with some. The eggs will have a wonderful shine.

For your Easter Celebrations:

Recipe card:

How to make Dyed Eggs for Easter

Easter and Dyed eggs are traditions. This easy method of making dyed eggs at home not only saves money but you can use natural colours from your pantry or food-based colours. Perfectly safe to eat.

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Course: Appetizers-Starters, Breakfast, Brunch, Dinner

Cuisine: Greek

Keyword: Boiled Eggs, Easter Basket, Eggs

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes

Soaking time:: 2 hours hours

Total Time: 2 hours hours 40 minutes minutes

Servings: 8 eggs

Calories: 77kcal

Author: ArchanaPotdar

Equipment

• 1 A pot to boil the eggs and the natural dye
• 2 Spoons
• 3 Cups or bowls to soak the eggs
• Paper towels/ newspaper
• Egg container to dry the eggs

Ingredients

For Boiling Eggs:

• 8 eggs
• 1500 ml water
• 2 tablespoon salt

For the Food Colours:

• 8 teaspoon vinegar
• 20 drops food colours
• 1 tablespoon oil

For Natural Colour:

• 1 tablespoon turmeric
• 2 teaspoon vinegar
• 1000 ml water

Instructions

• Before we make dyed eggs let us boil eggs on the stovetop. The traditional method of making boiled eggs is adding eggs to boiling water but I follow this method.
• In a big pot add the eggs.Cover with water and add salt. The thumb rule for the amount of salt is generally 1 tablespoon for 6 eggs. Adding makes peeling of eggs easy.
• Place the pot on the stovetop on high flame bring to a boil. Lower the flame and boil.
• For hard-boiled eggs Boil for 8-10 minutes then remove the eggs to cool completely.

Now things will get interesting let us dye our eggs...

• In a deep bowl, cup add hot water, 1 teaspoon of vinegar and food colour. If using a liquid colour you will need 20-25 drops for gel-based colours 1-2 teaspoon is enough. (For intense colours use more colour). Mix.
• Lower the egg in the liquid. Turn the egg in the cup so that the eggs are evenly coloured.
• Remove with a spoon when you are happy with the colour.
• Dry and apply the oil on the shell for a glossy shell.

For Natural Colour:

• If you plan to use natural colours you will need to boil the 1-litre water, with 2 tablespoon vinegar
• Add the ingredient you plan to use. ( I have used turmeric here). Lower the heat and boil for 30 minutes.
• Cool the boiled water and strain.
• In the strained liquid add the boiled eggs.
• Turn the egg in the cup so that the eggs are evenly coloured.
• Remove with a spoon when you are happy with the colour.
• Dry and apply the oil on the shell for a glossy shell.

How to serve

• Brightly coloured eggs are part of the Easter egg basket but I will serve my eggs as plain boiled eggs or deviled eggs.

Notes

Protips:

• Use fresh eggs to boil. 
• In India, the eggs are unwashed so wash them properly before boiling the eggs.
• Add salt to the water in which you plan to boil eggs. This helps in peeling the eggs easily.
• You need the vinegar or lemon juice so that the dye sticks to the eggs. Do not skip that.
• I have not used any oil but you can rub the dyed eggs with some. The eggs will have a wonderful shine.

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