If you do not accept purchased dyes for coloring Easter eggs, then this method is for you! Onion peel is the most natural and safest colorant. In this recipe, I will tell you how to properly prepare it.
You can simply dye the eggs in the onion skins. But such eggs turn out to be boring and I want to diversify them with a pattern. Therefore, I will also show how easy and simple it is to make a mesh pattern on dyes.
To do this, we only need a medical elastic bandage, which can be found in any pharmacy and it costs very little.
Such Easter eggs turn out to be beautiful, unusual and they will decorate your Easter table with dignity!
Ingredients:
- eggs - 10 pcs.
- onion peel
- elastic tubular bandage No. 1 or No. 2 - 50 cm
Step by step recipe
1. Pour water into a saucepan with onion peels. I have a 3 liter saucepan. The more onion skins, the more intense the color will be.
We put the pan on the fire. When the water boils, cook the onion peel for another 1-2 minutes.
2. Cover the pan with the husk with a lid and let the water cool. I left it to cool overnight.
3. While the water cools down, prepare the eggs.
To give a pattern to the eggs, we will use such an elastic tubular bandage, it is quite inexpensive.
I have it 50 cm long.
4. Take 1 raw egg and gently pull an elastic bandage over it. We sew it on one side with threads. On the other hand, cut off the remaining bandage. Sew up the other side with threads in the same way.
5. This is how you should get an egg in a bandage.
From a 50 cm bandage, I got 10 eggs. It is best to use a # 2 elastic tubular bandage, but the first number, like mine, will also work.
6. In the ready-made cooled onion solution, carefully put the eggs one at a time. Eggs should be at room temperature.
Salt water for about 1 tsp. salt so that if the egg bursts, the protein does not leak. Cover the saucepan with a lid and bring to a boil over medium heat.
7. After the water boils, cook the eggs for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, turn off the heat and let the eggs stand in this solution for another 5 minutes.
8. Carefully remove the boiled eggs from the pan and let them cool. We remove the bandage.
9. To give the eggs a beautiful shine, grease them with vegetable oil.
The Easter eggs turned out to be beautiful and with an unusual pattern. Preparing them is simple and not difficult. Also, a big plus in such coloring of eggs is its naturalness.
Video recipe
The recipe is taken from my culinary site. gotovimop.com