Can’t be ‘beet’ deviled eggs

By Heather Ledeboer | Category: Recipes & Kitchen Tips

I am reposting this from last year.  Some of my image links were broken and I looked and looked to find the original photos and couldn’t :( so I only have a photo of the final result rather than the step by step photos I had before, sorry!

So ya all know that I have fun finding ways to work beets into recipes.  Here is a super fun way to use beets to dress up your deviled eggs.  I have a feeling that there might be a lot of boiled eggs hanging around your house after yesterday. . . here is something you can do to really make your kids’ eyes pop!

1. Peel your hard boiled eggs, cut them in half and put the yolks in a separate small bowl (if you are lucky they will peel better than mine did oh MAN were they awful!!!)

2. Soak the egg white halves in beet juice (either reserved juice from boiling the beets, or just straight from a can of beets).  I did mine for about 3-5 minutes.  The longer they soak the darker pink they will be.

3. Lay them out to dry on a paper towel face down so that the extra juice can run off.  If your counter is porous, put a cookie sheet under the paper towel unless you want to have a permanent memory of this project stained into your counter top :).

4. If you are pinched for time, you can dry the beet juice with a blow dryer.  You get extra bonus points if your hair dryer matches your eggs!!  (that last sentence was a lot funnier when I had a photo of my bright pink hair dryer to back it up with;) )

5. Arrange your eggs face up.

6.  Fill them with your yolk mixture (here I mixed together about 6-8 T of mayo with 12 egg yolks, a small squirt of mustard to taste, 1/8 t pepper, 1/2 t salt).

7. Enjoy!

P.S. The beet juce adds little to no flavor to the deviled eggs!

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Posted Monday, April 25, 2011

5 Responses to “Can’t be ‘beet’ deviled eggs”

  1. Chrystal Lewis, on April 3rd, 2010 at 3:29 pm Said:

    Pretty! I never thought of coloring the eggs themselves:) I have never been a fan of beets but have a recipe that uses them in pancakes with apple…YUM! And anything pink to eat is just more fun;)

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  2. Dawn, on April 3rd, 2010 at 4:01 pm Said:

    Gonna try this! What is that squirty-thing (ha) you are using?! I’ll have to find that too. Big fan of pink!

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  3. Kendra, on April 3rd, 2010 at 6:39 pm Said:

    Oh, how fun! Now, to figure out a natural way to get green, blue, and yellow ones too ;)

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  4. Heather Ledeboer, on April 3rd, 2010 at 8:40 pm Said:

    Yes pink is so fun! Dawn, I have one of these: http://bit.ly/9S0ABH it is a Pampered Chef Easy Accent Decorator (back from the days when I was a Pampered Chef director:). It works really great! Kendra, I think you could get green by boiling kale or spinach and blue with blueberries. . . I did a search and found some ideas here for some other color options that might work: http://parenting.ivillage.com/tp/tcelebrations/0,,44c9,00.html#ixzz0k6CdpYgA
    they said, “Use yellow onion skins for an orange color; fresh beets or cranberries for a pink color; saffron, ground turmeric, ground cumin or lemon peels for yellow; beetroot for a beautiful purple; spinach leaves for a light green; brewed coffee for a light brown; and blueberries for a blue color. Of course they are thinking of dying the shells with these colors but they also might work for this project!

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  5. Kira, on April 7th, 2010 at 11:03 am Said:

    So cute, you clever girl!

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