it is I'm Hilah and today on Hilah
cooking I'm really excited to share with
you a way to make a rainbow of natural
plant-based diets for your Easter eggs
this year and I have a really great
memories of dyeing eggs at Easter with
my mom my brother with those little paws
Easter Egg kids the little pellets that
you dissolve and that's great but these
colors are so much more real and organic
and they're variable and you can combine
colors to get different colors and it's
just a fun thing to do so using only
four ingredients plus the eggs of course
we're going to make an entire rainbow of
Easter eggs for you natural plant-based
ingredients so let's get started because
it does take a little bit of time but
totally worth it I promise
the first color we're gonna make is blue
and for that we're gonna use a purple
cabbage so you want to start out chop up
about half a head of cabbage so you have
about 4 cups we're gonna add about 3
cups of water and bring that to a boil
then we'll turn it down and let it
simmer for about 30 minutes and then
strain it into a widemouth jar you want
to make sure to add some white vinegar
the vinegar is going to help the dye
penetrate the eggshell so each of these
dyes you want to make sure you add about
a tablespoon of vinegar to 2 cups of
your dye liquid then if you want to make
some stripes on the eggs you can put
some rubber bands around them these eggs
have already been boiled and you can let
them sit for 10 to 30 minutes for light
blue or up to 8 to 10 hours for a dark
aqua blue and I'll show you what that
looks like at the end next we're gonna
make red dye so this is some red beets
here so you just want to coarsely chop
up a bunch of beets
and we're gonna cover that with some
water to bring it to a boil and then let
it simmer for 30 minutes again let it
cool off and then strain it into your
jar add your vinegar and then we're
gonna place the exit now for the beats
you really just want to leave it for 10
to 30 minutes to get pink color if you
can leave it longer and I'll show you
what that looks like but it just kind of
turns a muddy brown so it's not a bad
color but for pink you just want it to
leave it no longer than about 30 minutes
finally we're gonna do yellow so for
this we're gonna use some ground
turmeric and I'm gonna use two
tablespoons of tumeric - 2 cups of water
and just to let that simmer for just
about 15 minutes and then pour it into
my jar and again with the vinegar and
then we can put the eggs in and tumeric
dyes are really fast and it also will
sustain your countertops your hands or
clothes so be really careful not to mess
up your stuff and then you're really
proud of me and everything and your
Easter ruined so don't do that
as you take each egg out of the dye bath
you want to just lightly rinse it in
water you can do a running water and you
can do just a cup of water I found that
with the beets especially because the
dye is kind of delicate just dipping
them in water is enough but the tumeric
kind of works better with running water
because the Weisse tends to stick to the
show a little bit and then to make these
secondary colors using your primary
colors this is where it gets really fun
make green eggs by taking a yellow
tumeric egg and dipping it into your
cabbage i for 10 to 20 minutes or you
can make an orange egg by taking a
yellow tumeric egg and dipping it into
your beet dye for 10 to 20 minutes and
then you can make a beautiful purple egg
by taking a cabbage egg and dipping it
into a pink beet die
for 10 to 30 minutes so it's really fun
I hope you can try this with your kids
and
Happy Easter from me and my little
chicken that's you