How to make colored dough

Color the dough like most kids. They are fun to eat pasta and dumplings different colors, and cooking with my mother. The dough different colors are used for cooking of dough: homemade noodles, dumplings, pies and confectionery.

You will need

• • Noodles:
  • 2 cups flour;
  • 3 eggs;
  • salt;
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil.
  • Dumplings:
  • 2 cups flour;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 1/2 Cup water;
  • salt.
  • Sweet pastry:
  • 2 cups flour;
  • 1/2 Cup sugar;
  • 50 g of margarine;
  • 1 egg;
  • 2 tbsp sour cream;
  • salt and soda at the tip of a tsp;
  • dyes.

Instruction

1. Prepare the dye. You can use food coloring, but it is better to give preference to natural, if possible, the time and the reluctance to add dishes "chemistry". Green is obtained by adding to the dough a puree of spinach or nettles. To do this, boil 250 g of greens in boiling water for about 2 minutes, then drain in a colander and let the water drain out. Wipe the resulting mass through a sieve.
2. For crimson boil the beets, peel, cut into small pieces or grate on a grater or chop in a blender.
3. The red color is obtained by adding to the dough, sauce from the canned tomatoes.
4. The color orange: add to the dough fresh carrot juice or juice of sea buckthorn.
5. Yellow happens when you add in the flour, saffron or turmeric. For sweet dough lemon juice.
6. Brown: burnt sugar, chocolate, ground cloves, ground coffee beans. Used for sweet goods.
7. Prepare the dough in accordance with the final dish. For the noodles, whisk the eggs, pour vegetable oil, add salt, food coloring and flour, mix well, roll out the dough into a large pancake and leave for an hour to dry. Then roll the pancake and slice finely crosswise, spread noodles.
8. For dumplings, dumplings or fried tortillas pour the flour in a deep bowl, make a hole, carefully pour in the eggs, salt water and dye. Stir, gradually collecting the flour from the edges until you get a stiff dough. Then carefully knead the dough until smooth and color.
9. For sweet dough (cookies) sour cream, eggs, sugar and salt, mix until smooth, whisk the margarine in a bowl, add the mixture of cream and eggs, the dye and stir. Stir in the flour and quickly knead. The dough will be loose.