What ingredients can be added to pasta to give a different color? [closed]
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I've experimented with fresh pasta, using the following ingredients to color it:
- Beetroot puree
- Carrot puree
- Cocoa powder
The first two were successful, the cocoa poweder resulted in a very visually appealing but rather disgusting pasta.
Any other suggestions for stuff you can put in the dough, other than the banal versions using spinach or dried tomatoes, to make for interesting colors?
Best Answer
We use spinach to color and flavour fresh pasta.
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What can you add to change the Colour of pasta?
InstructionsHow do they make pasta different colors?
While pasta is cooking, combine about 2 tablespoons of water and 20 drops of food coloring in a large zip-top pastic bag. Repeat with however many additional colors you would like. (We used six colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.)What Flavours and Colours can be added to the pasta dough?
Flavored and Colored PastaFlavors and Colors of Pasta - Pasta Dough IngredientsFlavoring AgentFlavorColorSpinachMild spinachMedium to dark greenBroccoliMild broccoliMedium to dark greenTomatoMild tomatoLight reddish-orange to dark reddish-orange20 more rowsWhat are some ingredients that you can use to change the color and add flavor to fresh pasta?
Herbs: Add flecks of flavor with few tablespoons of finely minced fresh herbs like rosemary or sage. For a bolder green color and flavor, use a pur\xe9e of soft herbs like basil or parsley. Peppers: Add a couple of roasted and pur\xe9ed red bell peppers for a pretty orange-red color and subtly sweet flavor.More answers regarding what ingredients can be added to pasta to give a different color? [closed]
Answer 2
Purple kale leeches blue anthocyanins into the water when it's cooked. Perhaps you could juice and then cook purple kale?
Squid ink is a classic of course.
Turmeric would make an eye-searing yellow.
Also, cocoa pasta can be very nice served hot with very cold ice cream.
Answer 3
Some things I've tried (separately):
- tomato, in paste form;
- fresh broccoli / spinach, finely chopped;
- lemon, juiced and zested; and
- if you're feeling fancy, saffron.
As for cocoa, I'd probably add sugar to offset the taste of the unsweetened cocoa powder.
Also, since roux suggested turmeric, I'm thinking it might be interesting to add curry powder, which already contains turmeric.
Answer 4
Try Matcha tea, buy the culinary matcha as it is less expensive.
Answer 5
Amaranth greens will get you pink pasta. Potentially VERY pink pasta.
Answer 6
Have you tried blueberry, cranberry and currant?
P.S. I have no clue if it will be eatable :)
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