Cooking delicious food is not enough, it as much important to make it look appetizing. In fact, it is the appearance as well as the aroma of food that attracts people, especially kids, to it, in the very first instance. It is only later that they get to explore its taste. Coloring plays a great role in making a food item look tempting. However, synthetic food colorings, available in the market have chances of containing toxic ingredients, so it is better to avoid them altogether. Rather, you should make use of natural food coloring, made at home. In order to help you out, we have listed ideas on how to make food coloring, in the lines below.
Natural Food Coloring Ideas
- If you want to give yellow color to any food item, make use of 1 tsp, or more, of stale turmeric. It is fairly flavor neutral and is often used to give an "eggy" shade to vegan puddings and tofu scrambles.
- For adding a blush or pale pink color to any food, make use of the juice of fresh or thawed, frozen raspberries.
- Pastel shades can be acquired by mixing in avocado. Take a small avocado and mash half of it, until creamy, before mixing in.
- In case raspberry purple is the color you desire, make use of blueberries or blackberries. Using a sieve, mash the juice from fresh or thawed frozen blueberries and use it for coloring. You can also use fresh or thawed frozen blackberries for the purpose.
- Pomegranate juice or dried, powdered, boiled and unsalted red beets are perfect for adding red color to any food item.
- In order to get a brown color, instant coffee granules or cocoa powder is what you need to add.
- If green color is what you desire, go for thawed frozen spinach that has been blanched and pureed.
