How at home do food coloring? Food coloring recipes

As a rule, visitors to restaurants and cafes pay attention not only to the taste of the dishes served, but also how they are decorated. Therefore, the cooks try to decorate this or that dish as best as possible. Most attention in this case is paid to sweets and desserts. At home, you can also create different patterns of cream and sprinkles.

It is best to learn how to make food coloring at home and not buy it in a store. The result will be no worse, besides it is not dangerous for health. Such a dye made at home is used for coloring sauces, jelly, mastic, cream and much more.

What are the food colors?

Food colors are both synthetic and natural. In turn, synthetic are divided into liquid, dry and gel. Dry dyes are diluted in a small amount of liquid to give the dish the necessary shade.

Powdered dyes are diluted with boiled water, alcohol or vodka, and, if desired, are applied to pastries in dry form. The protein mass for creating patterns and creams, as a rule, is stained with liquid dyes. They are often used in airbrushes or in sugar mastics as a substitute for water.

Liquid food coloring is very similar to gel color, but the latter is more dense and concentrated. It is used in the coloring of creams (only non-protein), glaze, mastic and dough. With the help of gel colors you can create both gentle shades, and rich and bright colors.

How to get a natural color of red color

Such a dye can be obtained using juice of berries, fruits and vegetables that contain red color, it can be:

• beet;
• Strawberry;
• currant;
• Garnet and other food products.

But red food color can be obtained not only from fruits, try to use for this purpose tomatoes of dark red color, red pepper and paprika powder. But nevertheless the most beautiful color is obtained from beets.

Get the red dye from the beet can be as follows:

• Wash the roots thoroughly under running water, peel and then grate. Fill the beet with water. Fluids are not much needed, it should only cover the grated vegetable. Put on a slow fire and cook for an hour.
• Please note that the pan should always be covered with a lid. Add a little citric acid (1/2 teaspoon) to the broth, it will not let it discolor. After cooling, the red food color should be filtered and then used.

How to make food coloring black

Black food coloring can be obtained in several ways:

• The first way. Mix five drops of refined glycerin with an activated carbon pellet.

• The second way, as at home, is to make food coloring black. Black color can be obtained by mixing artificial colors of several colors. For example, take food colorings of red, yellow and blue and mix thoroughly - eventually get a black color.
• The third way, as at home, is to make food coloring black. Take ink cuttlefish. To get them recently is quite easy, they are sold in almost every big hypermarket. But despite the fact that the ink has almost no taste, there is still a certain taste, and therefore it is not recommended to use such black food color for mastic or other sweet dishes.

How the dye is made for eggs

Yellow food color (recipe): in the boiling solution of vinegar should be added turmeric (3 tablespoons). Remember that turmeric stains the skin very strongly, therefore, before you start working with this dye, be sure to wear rubber gloves to protect your hands from staining.

Pink: cut 4 cups of raw beetroot and add it to the egg container. If the eggs first seem to you not pink, but brown, do not get discouraged. After they dry, they will become a pleasant pastel shade.

Food colors for eggs of blue color are as follows: add 3 cups of cut cabbage violet or red to the solution. To eggs have acquired a blue color, they should be held in a solution of half an hour. If you want to achieve a blue color, put the eggs in the refrigerator, and let them stand there in the solution the whole night.

Orange color: a beautiful orange shade of eggs gives onion peel (four glasses). To get a brighter color, then, as in the previous case, do not take the eggs out of the dye, leave them all night in the fridge.

Nutritional dye with his own hands of silvery color: put 2 cups of frozen blueberries in a container and add 2 cups of pure water to it. Wait until the mixture warms to room temperature, and then crush the berries. Let them stay a little longer, after which the solution is filtered. Place the Easter eggs in the dye and place in the fridge - let them stay there until the morning.

Color beige

To make the food color by yourself beige, you should use tomato paste. Color saturation depends on the amount of this product, for example, if you add a lot of tomato to the cream, it will get more orange color than beige. Tomato paste does not change the taste of dessert.

If you have previously prepared several different natural dyes, then if you want, you can create new ones from them. To do this, you will only need to mix already existing ones. For example, to get the color of the sea wave, you should mix the two dyes: green and blue, and for the blue hue you need to add a green to the red. When mixing red, blue and green turns black. A beautiful pistachio shade can be achieved by mixing the blue and yellow dyes.

Yellow

To paint the dish in yellow, most cooks use lemon. The lemon zest is rubbed on a fine grater, and then the juice is squeezed out of it, which turns into a liquid food color. Dissolved in warm water, turmeric also gives a beautiful yellow tint.

Green color

To get a saturated green color, most often use fresh spinach. It is crushed in a meat grinder or wiped through a sieve. Then the mixture is cooked for 30 minutes, after which it is filtered.

Blue and violet colors

Such colors can be obtained from blueberries, dark grapes or aubergine skin. You can also use for this purpose violet cabbage, which is pre-cut and cooked. With the help of sugar, you can get a brown color. For this, the sugar is mixed with water (5: 1) and placed on a frying pan. Make a small fire and fry the sugar, not forgetting it is constantly stirring. Gradually the mixture begins to acquire a brown tint. Add some more water and strain it. In addition to sugar, a brown color can be obtained using cocoa, coffee or chocolate.

What is harmful artificial dyes

To date, a large number of artificial colors are produced, which are used to give the dishes an attractive appearance. But it is not always known what exactly is included in these synthetic dyes. It often happens that their composition can only be determined through long-term laboratory studies.

Not in all cases, manufacturers are ready to comply with standards, and often dangerous components in dyes exceed the allowable content. They can not only cause people to be allergic, but also negatively affect the nervous system, cause oxygen starvation and, worst of all, provoke the formation of tumors. Therefore, it is better not to use such products at all, but instead learn how to make food coloring at home.

Conclusion

There are two types of food colors: synthetic and natural. The first of them are most often made of chemical ingredients, so it is more reasonable to give preference to natural ingredients. Natural food colors are made from vegetable components (usually vegetables and fruits).

Such dyes can be created independently at home and used to decorate all kinds of dishes.