Three Ways to Color Easter Eggs Using One Completely Natural Dye

Maybe I should have named this post - An Ode To An Onion Skin!

All of these lovely Easter Eggs - dyed using nothing more than yellow onion skins! How much more natural can you get?

Recently I came across three ways to color eggs for celebrating Easter - Estonian, Russian and Greek! And they all employed the same exact dying agent - yellow onion skins! You know me! I had to try them all. And THAT was too much fun!

Estonian Easter Eggs - hands down my very favorite! Must make some using blown out eggs so I can keep them.

These are fresh eggs boiled in the usual way with one tiny exception - before being dipped into boiling water, they are wrapped in yellow onion peels!

You can find the full tutorial right here on Nami Nami - one of my favorite cooking blogs.

Once the dying process is completed you will have a lovely little surprise package to open.

Kids will get a huge kick out of opening each onion peel wrapped package to see what happened inside! Every single egg will be different.

Why did I only save enough skins for two eggs? I could have done this all afternoon!

Mention was made in the Nami Nami post of another method using onion skins - a simpler method used in Russia and the Ukraine. Natash shares the how-to on her cooking blog Natasha's Kitchen.

Dying eggs with this method is easier and quicker and each egg develops a slightly different shade.

I do like the soft, natural color and am thinking blown out eggs colored using this method would be a great base for future Pysangle or Faux Pysansky eggs!

Aaaaaaaah... those lovely, brilliant deep red Greek eggs! I have always wondered how the Greeks got that deep color.

Yellow Onion Skins! Here is the tutorial on About.com.

Dare I admit that I was seriously doubting this one all during the process until I pulled these lovely deep pepper red eggs from the dye bath?

Shortly after my little egg dying adventure, I found this post on Lavender and Lovage where the egg dying method I mentioned above as traditional Estonian is described as being old English! I am beginning to think this method of using onion peels may be quite common throughout Europe.

In any case, pop over to see Karen's gorgeous eggs! So beautiful.

I had almost completely forgotten that three years ago I actually tested out several fruits and veggies as potential egg dye options! Pop over if you are curious about which is what.

Guess which one is dyed using onion skins? I tried lots of things from spinach to blueberries but found most of the results too subtle for my taste - except the blueberry!  LOVED the blueberry egg!

Don't get me wrong -  the subtle colored eggs make my eyes happy - but I prefer them to be "hen laid"! Like these Amy Grennell collected from her very own hen house! Beautiful indeed. Don't you just love the way she laid them out like a rainbow?

Boiling eggs wrapped in onion skins in a color bath instead of water can produce some very cool results!  Turn your Easter egg dying into a science experiment or make a nest full of Dinosaur Eggs!

Happy "Easter is almost here"!