Bentolicious - Natural Rice Coloring
Today, I want to share some tips on how to make coloring on the rice so it looks more colorful and become not so boring white rice for bento. Here are how I color my rice :
Y E L L O W R I C E
I use an egg. Choose the fresh egg and beat the egg until even. The next step is same like if you want to make egg fried-rice.

B R O W N R I C E
I think everyone know how to do it. Just put some sweet soya sauce and like 'yellow rice' do the next step like if you want to make fried-rice.

G R E E N R I C E
I was using this trick before when my kids were little and they didn't like to eat spinach. Clean the spinach under the running water until clean and then boil them (don't boil them too long, you don't want to get a soggy spinach later). Quickly take them out and put them in cold water to maintain the green fresh color after few minutes put them in colander to drain them. Squish the spinach until the water drain up and chop finely the spinach. After that you can mixed them with the white rice until even.
P I N K R I C E
It's the same way to do the Green Rice only instead of using green spinach I use red spinach. Remember not to boil green and red spinach at the same time because red spinach will produce pinkies color and will effect the color of green spinach.

Tada ... you've got 4 colors rice for your bento. Pretty simple steps but yet you get fun in the process. Hope this will be a useful tips and will be making more tips to share on this blog.

5 comments:

I want one!!!! :) looks delicious..

it looks so good, i will try these at my home..

Amazing....wah semakin jago yah...anakku lgsung minta dibikinkan yul.

Lia i will try this..since it looks much more easy than the rest :)

Larryina ... yes it is pretty easy to color the rice. You might want to decorate it or you can make sushi with color rice ;o)