Egg shells colored by onion skins (Photo by Marash Girl)
It’s never too early to start planning for Easter – arranging baskets of treats for the children, baking plenty of chorag, your favorite lavash, making paklava, and most important, coloring hard-cooked eggs with onion skins, the Armenian way!
(Did you know Armenians have a traditional way of cracking Easter eggs? Click here to find out more.)
Special Note: You must start gathering onion skins now – gather as many as you can because the more you have, the more intense the color will be.
How to color Easter eggs Armenian style:
It’s very easy; start with white-shelled eggs. Hard cook eggs as you normally do, but add the onion skins to the water before you start the cooking process. Onion skins make a great natural Easter egg dye!
Need help with hard-cooking eggs? Just follow these simple steps:
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How many onion skins minimum Robyn? I always forget. It seems like Mom collected them all winter from the geeragours!