In a vessel, pour a cup of water and allow a few diced beets to cook in it. To this mix add a bit of salt and vinegar and let it cook for around eight minutes. In the meantime boil your eggs and set them aside. If you want your eggs completely red/pink, you may immerse them whole after removing its shell in this liquid as it cools. The colour will gently seep through and colour the eggs with time.
I have gently tapped the egg shells on the kitchen counter without breaking them all the way through and threw them into the pink liquid for more than an hour or so. This sort of cracked effect gives intermittent patches on the egg once the egg shells are removed. One would see the pink colour almost like web patches or as my darling friend Deep mentioned aptly, it does give a tie and dye effect on the eggs. Thanks sweetheart for the right choice of words that I was fumbling for.
I haven't done the best job here in colouring the eggs as I personally don't like doing such weird stuff to eggs but just joined the bandwagon to keep with the spirit of Easter bunnies and eggs and of course introducing a nice way of ensuring natural colours go into our tummies.
I will try to link one of my friends' blogs here to see how she has coloured her eggs with onion skin. Isn't that odd and interesting!!! I love her blog and many of her posts. They are so doable and sincere posts straight from her heart.
http://zestysouthindiankitchen.com/2016/03/how-to-dye-egg-with-both-red-and-yellow-onion-skins.html
So, my beet eggs looked pretty and to get things looking healthier and greener to accompany those eggs, I made green rotis. A handful of palak/green spinach, equal amounts of mint and cilantro, green chillies, garlic were ground very well with a tbsp. or more of water. This ground mix was added to my wheat flour along with a tsp. of cumin seeds, ghee, adequate salt and in the midst of the kneading process I did add a 1/4 tsp. of sesame seeds as well.
If required you can use/play around with other flours of choice like chickpea flour or APF or half and half of wheat to flour. Knead it and set it aside to roll out and flatten and make your rotis later.
Noticed my patched eggs? The pictures aren't that pretty as they are cell phone uploads.
I stuffed the green rotis with a lovely cucumber raitha, shredded purple/red cabbage and a tofu and Okra stir-fry. They make a pretty picture when rolled out and shaped into pinwheels.
The rotis are flattened and fried over a griddle. Flip sides when a side is cooked.
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