There are many ways to decorate Easter eggs.  The quickest and easiest way to color eggs is to dip them in water with the dye dissolved. We can buy ready-made dyes in the store, but these  they contain chemistry and are either artificial or to look for  natural alternative in ours  the kitchen. Some colors will not be as vivid as those made with artificial dyes, but they will be natural. Natural egg dyes for Easter  they are healthier because they do not change the taste of the egg and help to avoid possible allergies.

What ingredients should be used to color the Easter eggs naturally and turn them into cute Easter eggs in all the colors of the rainbow? Below is a cheat sheet from the natural coloring of eggs.  

You can dye in two ways:

1. By boiling eggs in salted, colored water. Salt water reduces the risk of shell cracks. It is also important that the egg, before we cook it,  picked up room temperature.  If removed from the refrigerator and put in cooking, it may crack.

2. Leaving the egg  for a few hours in a solution obtained after cooking the appropriate vegetables / fruits / spices. To obtain the dye, boil e.g. red cabbage leaves or beetroot in water, and then put it into the resulting solution  eggs. The color intensity depends on the time the egg spends in the colored water, i.e. in our dye. The most intense color will be if the egg spends 24 hours in the dye, but even 3 hours is enough for it to change color.    

It is worth choosing eggs with light shells, then the color obtained will be more intense. When coloring eggs naturally, a shade may not be  uniform. The egg may be stained or individual eggs may vary in their degree and color. It is completely natural.  

To color an egg, choose one of the ingredients below and bring it to a boil  water to draw the dye out of it.