VIDEO: Make your own colored powder
Which vegetables are suitable for making colored powder?
- To make colored powder, vegetables are the cheapest and easiest to buy. Beetroot, spinach, nettles and carrots are perfect for making colored powder.
- As the name suggests, beetroot produces a red dye. Depending on the concentration, you can use the beetroot powder Colours Establish between a light rose to a dark eggplant.
- Spinach and nettles provide a huge spectrum of green tones, spinach tends to be the richer tones, and nettles tends to be the light tones.
- Depending on the variety, carrots deliver a yellow, orange to deep purple.
How do you turn a vegetable into a colored powder?
- The peels are used for carrots. They are finely chopped and dried, then they are pulverized in the food processor. The powder can now be diluted with a little alcohol and used for painting on food. It can also be placed under sauces, creams, ice cream, cakes or other foods. It doesn't taste like carrot.
- Prepare deep red food coloring from beetroot. To do this, pour the juice of the beetroot very thinly on a tray and let the liquid evaporate.
- Then scrape off the topping on the tray with a ceramic hob scraper. This is a highly productive powder that can be added to foods as well as paints for interior painting or the fine arts.
- It is the same with spinach or nettles. Here the leaves are boiled with a little water and then pureed in the food processor.
- The puree is spread on a tray and dried in the blazing sun or on the heater. Then the mass is pulverized and can now be added to all white colors as a coloring agent.
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