Natural food colors in cooking are vegetables, fruits, berries, herbs and spices. To create a specific color and color the rice, dyes are used when the rice is half ready. Of the berries, vegetables and fruits, as a rule, fresh juice is used, or the products are chopped very finely. From herbs you can make a decoction.
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You will need
- 1 cup boiled white rice
- 1 tablespoon of dye juice
- 0.5 teaspoon turmeric
- 0.5 cups of water
- 1 teaspoon olive or vegetable oil
Instruction manual
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Mix juice or spice with water.
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Pour into rice and mix.
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Add oil to a small saucepan or ladle and lay out the rice.
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Cover rice and cook in the oven.
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Oven 180 degrees 10-15 minutes.
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Create a variety of colors will help you:
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The juice of barberry, red currant, cranberry and cherry juice will add red color to the rice.
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Raspberry color will give beet juice and raspberry juice.
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Tsevei "Bordeaux" will turn out when using buzgun (buzhgun, buzguncha) - galls of pistachio tree, their decoction.
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When using turmeric, saffron, buckthorn or carrot juice, the rice turns yellow.
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A pink or purple hue will give the juice of red cabbage.
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Rice of delicate purple color will come from blackcurrant juice.
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Green color will give: spinach juice, lacao (Chinese greens), peel juice of green (immature) apples, unripe pistachios.
Useful advice
Do not forget that in addition to color, rice may have a rich taste of dye.