How to Dye Greek Red Easter Eggs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- GREEK RED EASTER EGGS
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Dyeing Easter eggs red is probably one of the most well-known of all Greek Easter traditions. They are traditionally dyed on Holy Thursday and then cracked on Easter. I have a special trick to making sure they achieve the deep burnished red color that you see here, they come out perfectly every time.
Makes 12 Eggs
Timing: 10 minutes prep, 20 minutes cooking/soaking
Ingredients
12 brown eggs
4 cups water
1 cup white vinegar
1 package red egg dye
Drizzle of oil
Instructions
In a large pot, add the water and bring to a rolling boil. Once boiling, add the eggs and lower the heat to simmer, cover the pot and let cook for 15 minutes.
Once finished, add the eggs to an ice bath and let cool for at least 5 minutes.
While the eggs are cooling, make your red dye mixture.
Using a glass measuring cup, remove one cup of the hot water. Carefully pour in the red dye, and mix well with a metal spoon (if you use a wooden spoon, it will dye your spoon).
Carefully pour concentrated dye mixture back into the pot that you used to boil the eggs.
Using a large metal spoon, carefully place the hard-boiled eggs to ensure that you don’t splash the water. Let them soak for 5 minutes.
When ready to remove the eggs, line a plate with paper towels. Carefully remove them from the pot and place them to let them dry. This is very important to ensure you don’t ruin your counter tops with the dye!
Once dried, gently cover the eggs with oil to ensure that they stay shiny and also to preserve the dye on them so it won’t rub off on your hands later. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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Make sure your eggs come too room temp before you put in boiling water too cook. Just a hint for no broken eggs.
I have been dyeing red eggs for Orthodox Easter for many years, but I can assure you that they have NEVER turned out as beautifully as they did today (Holy Thursday 2023). In the past I varied what I did, but the results were always somewhat blotched or too light or in some way not what I wanted. Today I followed your instructions TO THE LETTER and they are absolutely gorgeous! Thank you! I'll never do it any other way again.
Thank you so much for watching my video
EOSTRE / EASTER is goddess worship. Please do a study as soon as possible. The Reurrection of Jesus has nothing to do with easter.
My grandma always dyed Easter eggs on the Thursday before Easter but she never mentioned being Orthodox Christian. thank you. You reminded me of my childhood Easter.
The symbolism of dying eggs red on the Thursday before Easter, is that the blood of Christ was shed on that Thursday. The Armenian Church follows many of the Orthodox traditions.
Thanks so much, I’m a convert to Orthodoxy and need help learning some Greek traditions 😅🤙🏻
Were you jewish?
@@loopes84 no, Protestant evangelical
Welcome home! ❤️☦️
There are traditions in each Church group...American Orthodox,Greek, Russian Syrian...etc. you don’t need to follow any particular groups ways. Big T traditions are different and unchanged
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Dear Nikki, thank you ssssoooo very much!!!! I followed your recipe to the T and for first time, I have perfect red eggs! Thank you and Happy Easter!
Hi Nikki: Kalo Paska!
Thank you for this tutorial. I am Greek and I especially enjoyed this! You manner is direct, pleasant, and sincere, which is why all the world love Greek people.
This is the first year I am going to attempt to dye my eggs deep red. My mother when she was alive, used white eggs which accounted for them not being dark and vibran
I purchased my Greek dye from Amazon, AND I purchased 3 dozen brown eggs from Trader Joe's so I am all set for this coming Holy Week.I got my olive oil too and so I am good to go.
Once again, evfaristo para poli yia to thaumasio sas mathima ... for those who don't know Greek: "Thank you very much for your wonderful tutorial.
Yiannis
Efharisto Nikki! We have dyed our eggs for years and never turned out this red. I am going to try your recipe.
Kalo Pascha!
Thank you thank You thank you! Finally!!! I’m not Greek, but married to one and I’ve NEVER been able to get my eggs red! Your little tips and secrets helped so much. Kali Anastasi!
Glad I could help you Annette! Καλή Ανάσταση
Thank you. Used your format and the eggs came out beautiful. Kalo Pascha!
I followed your instructions and for the first time ever have prefect eggs! Thanks a million Nikki!!! ❤
You are so welcome!
We do these for Chinese New Years so this will be very helpful
Glad to help
Thankyou for sharing dying Greek Easter eggs 🥰💙🇬🇷💙Χρόνια Πολλά! 💐
Thank you so much for watching
Beautiful color! Using the brown eggs is a great tip!
Thank you! Cheers!
I just started this special tradition my family does! My yiayia tried teaching me but it is a little hard from her since I don’t speak as much Greek. The steps were simple I was managed to make tons of eggs and my yiaya was very pleased!
So glad that I helped
Where I live now, we don't have egg dye, so, instead I had to resort to food colouring and they have finally come out with nice red colour.
I have tried with curcuma, onion peal, beetroots, black tea but they would always come out depressing and with odd colours.
To get a shine my grandmother would rub them with some oil and clean off the access.
World is small. Many blessings.
Enjoyed your video. I used to be in charge of dyeing eggs for our Church’s Easter celebration. After trying many dyes, I finally found the same Greek Dye you use. Worked perfectly! However, we had to do 1000 eggs!!!! It was quite a production!
That is awesome!
Your eggs are beautiful! Please remember to use the brown eggs people's for the darkest color hue of eggs for any dye, other than yellow.
love this
Beautiful shade
WE WANT GREEK TRADITION 👍👍👍👍👍
Great video vikki. Thank you for posting.
You are so welcome!
Great show and very well explained 😊thank you very much from Sydney Australia
Happy easter to u too thanks for sharing
Thanks for visiting
Happy Easter to you and to your whole family
Same to you!
Awesome! I followed your tips and the 🥚s came out great! ❤👍🐰
I'm so glad!
I will try for the first time. God bless you. Am father Nicholas from Kenya
Thanks for sharing Niki😁🥰👍👍
Thanks for watching!
Thank you this was very helpful !
You're so welcome John
Very nice video ,Thank you for amazing recipe
Most welcome 😊
So interesting...beautiful eggs
Thank you for watching Darlene
I’m currently in my kitchen waiting for the water to boil and I’m going to follow your method! Fingers crossed it works :) it’s my first time dying eggs by myself x
Reply to Kat!
I hope they came out great! Send us a picture!
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Thank you! Efharisto! It worked beautifully! Καλή Ανάσταση και Καλό Πάσχα!
Thank you for watching Ασπασία . Καλή ανάσταση
Thank you so much, just ordered the dye and am anxious to try with the brown eggs! No more dark pink eggs for our parish!
Have fun!
Always use brown eggs for any Easter egg and your eggs will always be a darker hue of color, except for yellow dye. You can also use any red food dye for this recipe, use 20 drops of the dye.
Thank you Lovely Couler Eggs
Beautiful☘️🌹
Thank you too
Love it thank you so much
Happy Ester to you and yours
You are so welcome! Happy Easter to you too
@@NikkisModernMediterranean EOSTRE / easter is goddess worship. Please do a study as soon as possible.
Happy Easter
Happy Easter
Hvala lijepa svidja mi se
Wow awesome Lovely Thank U so much for ur superb method
Most welcome 😊
Happy Easter 🐰
Happy Easter to you too Christina !!!
I do my eggs like this for Greek Easter! Thanks nice video, because my cousin ask me how my eggs where so red. I passed this on to her!❣
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much GOD BLESS YOU look. Beautiful
You are so welcome!
Thank you woman! I never, i guess, did them right. lol, They always came out weird looking. Thank You!!! They came out PERFECT!!! WOW!!!
Xristos Anesti! for the future!!!
You are so welcome!
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Thank you...
You're welcome!
Bellisimo
You mentioned about egg coming out if you crack it at 1:55. Nothing will come out if you put some salt in that water. :)
Tfs!
Ωραίο χρώμα το κόκκινο, τα έβαψες πολύ ωραία, Καλό Πάσχα Νίκη.
Καλό Πασχα Τασο
The Greeks stole our Lebanese easter egg cracking game ;)
That what we do I'm romainia happy easter
Happy Easter to you and your Family Alexandra . Maybe you will send us your favorite Romanian recipe and I will try to make it 😉
Pasca its my favourite dessert
çok güzel bir gelenek teşekkürler
Μπράβο! Very nice! 🐥
We have the same tradition everybody picks an egg and tries to break the other egg imagine a big family its fun mostly
Thank you! Last Pascha my eggs ended up hot pink!
I hope my video will help you Emma , thank you so much for watching
You might need more dye, some brands are not strong enough
Nice. I prefer pastel colours to dye my eggs for Easter.
Colored eggs are very pretty but we do the red to honor the blood Christ spelt for us.
God bless
Do the brown eggs have to be at room temperature before placing in the boiling water? Efxaristo. Καλό Πάσχα!
Can I make them 2 days before Easter? Its my first time
Do you shine the eggs with olive oil??
I may dye red & green eggs for Christmas...to place on or along a braided Christmas bread: with maraschino cherries & pine sprigs😊❤
So the water is still warm when you add the vinegar? Right?
Nice! Just for the hard boiling part: If you have a steamer basket you can just bring .5-1" of water to a boil, place your eggs in the steamer basket and drop it in the pot for 9.5-11 minutes. No cracked eggs, always perfectly cooked. 9.5 minutes will leave a soft but mostly set yolk, 11 minutes will be fully cooked.
Thanks for the info!
Molim vas prevod
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do you ever use cheese cloth? I've heard to use cheese cloth when dying eggs? Great recipe. Will dye 2 dozen eggs tonight? Kalo Paska koukla!
What spray do you use for cleaning dye off the benchtop with the magic eraser?
I use Weiman Quartz Countertop Cleaner and Polish :)
I really appreciate your video first, video quality so amazing and your recipe just awesome, perfectly cooked and wonderful presentation wish you good luck grow more. I made jelly egg for Easter and posted in my channel, I look forward to your support
Thank you so much 🙂
Red and blue eggs are essential in Hungarian tradition also
Thank you for watching
Why do the egg whites get red after after coloring
Don’t the eggs crack when you take them out of the hat after their hard boiled and you put them directly into the cold they won’t crack?
When you take them out of the fridge how do you keep the dye from getting on your hands? My eggs always sweat after they come out of the fridge and everyone's hands are a mess! Any tips??
I know, I never know how to deal with this either. I might make them Saturday so I don’t refrigerate them for Easter, I don’t think they go bad the first 24 hours.
Get cheap eggs and don't refrigerate them. We don't eat them. Only for the cracking.
If you use naturally brown eggs and boil them with onion peels you will get the same deep warm red without need to seek the special dye :)
need to update: I succesfully did that in past it was beautiful rich red but now when I tried to reproduce it I failed, the color got too brown, so caution it's not that reliable :D
never got a rich red this way... the color got too brown
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Φενονται πολύ ωραία καλή ανάσταση σε όλους τους Έλληνες όπου και να βρίσκονται με καλή παρέα εγώ τα βάφω την μεγάλη Πέμπτη καλημας επιτυχία και χρόνια πολλά
Καλο Πασχα
Tip without food color..
Use the red peel of onion just put in a hot water and vinegar put the egg overnight organic color is better
MAGA red eggs, thank you-
Do you think normal food colouring/gel would work? I don’t have a local store nearby selling traditional colour sachets 😭
You can use normal food coloring but I haven't been able to get them to turn as red as the Greek dye. Another solution is to use beets, you can boil beets and use the water to dye the eggs. Follow my other instructions with beet water. Good Luck! Christos Anesti!
@@NikkisModernMediterranean Alithos Anesti - thank you :)
I want to make 120. can I add more dye to the same water after every 30 eggs or better to remake it each time?
Yes you can add more dye to the same pot and water you may need to add more water to cover the eggs! Good luck and happy Easter!
@@NikkisModernMediterranean do you add vinegar if you use the same pot ? I also put salt in the water
YEP LIKE THIS DYE IS AT EVERY STORE,LOL
Hello, what is the name/brand of the red dye that you use?
You can search for Lithari or optima . But any Greek Dye will work
@@NikkisModernMediterranean Thank you!
can anyone suggest me where to buy red egg diy and what kind is the best?Thank you!
Hi Ela you can check out this link . It is a Greek supermarket in Astoria titanfoods.com/titan-egg-dye/
@@NikkisModernMediterranean thank you so much
My pleasure
Instead of using dye use onion skins, from yellow onions then add vinegar, let sit after you boil them with onions.
When you’re dying the eggs in the pot, is the heat on?
Hi Betty , The water must be hot . if the water is hot you don't need to have the heat on
@@NikkisModernMediterranean I did this with some kids from church and followed your recipe and they turned out PERFECT!! Thank you so much!
Dear god you are adorable )
Thank youuu 😀
I used the greek dye, brown eggs etc. The brown eggs make the difference...BUT, last year I used the dried skins from yellow onions to make my own dye and ysed white eggs. I got the darkest red and most uniform red eggs I have ever seen. Also the dye does not come off. If you refrigerate dyed ehgs and later take them out, you'll end up with red fingers. I'll never go back to the dye.
I use onion skins often, but that gives brown, not red. :)
Hi there can you eat the eggs
Yes of course
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Thanks so much
What is the brand of the dye? Where to buy it?
Hi Kelly , You can find it in Greek stores if you have near you , or you can search online for Greek Easter egg Diy . they are usually more potent than the rest.
You can use any red dye if not able to find it, 20 drops of red dye - neon works great also, & remember to use the brown 🥚 eggs or you won't get the red dye. Adding a little extra white vinegar and hot water to dye, with hot eggs also helps a great deal.
Kelly you can try also this one from Titan supermarket in Astoria titanfoods.com/titan-egg-dye/
Efharisto
why 12. minutes fir something you can tell in 1?
Srbija Beograd lajk od baka Dudine kuhinje ❤️ i meni lajk ❤️ bravo ❤️❤️❤️
11 minutes of my life have gone irretrievably to this video that makes science out of a simple process like hard-boiled eggs and coloring like I’ve been doing since I was twelve.
Not Happy Easter , but Christos Anesti… Or Blessed Resurrection Feast
Greek 😂😂😂
Please put a paper towel down to place your remnant of the pouch on! Your kitchen is too beautiful to mess up!
Tradu în română
they don't nake that dye anymore
EOSTRE / EASTER is goddess worship and has nothing to do with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Please do a study and do it NOW !
Not traditional Greek game, it’s traditional Easter game for Serbians, Croatians, Greeks, Russians etc..
danzms mafins😊