Coloring Your Easter Eggs with Onion Skins is to Dye For!

March 18, 2010 - PRLog -- This Easter Season Why not dye eggs the natural way? You can derive many amazing colors and designs from the simplest of household ingredients, like onions! Each variety of onion can give your eggs fabulous hues, perfect for any nature-lover’s Easter egg hunt (and the kids will love it too).

What You'll Need:

To get started you'll need a dozen eggs, red storage onions with several layers of skin, yellow storage onions with several layers of skin, two pots, water and vinegar.  


Dying your Eggs:

First, peel the skins from each onion, taking care to separate the skins into two piles according to color.

Place each color of onion peels in separate pots, add eggs, fill with water, add a teaspoon of vinegar, and bring both pots to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.

After simmering for 15 minutes, remove and discard the skins, then place eggs in a bowl to cool.  When complete, you'll have golden yellow and beautiful red eggs.


For a darker, richer color, leave the eggs in the onion-vinegar water and place in the fridge overnight.  In the morning you’ll have deeply colored eggs that look almost too good to eat.

Enjoy! From your friends at Utah Onions, Inc.

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Utah Onions, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Syracuse, Utah. They are one of the country’s leading grower-shipper of quality yellow, red, white and sweet onions. For more information about Utah Onions contact Darcie Liptrot at 801-814-8086 or darcie@utahonion.com.