Valoween Pasta
Happy Valoween creepy friends! Below you will find my recipe for how I made my beet dyed red pasta with black Alfredo sauce.
What you will need:
1 bag of heart shaped pasta
3 uncooked beets
1 can of white pasta sauce
Black food dye
Cheese of your choice
**Be careful getting any of this on your clothing, beets will stain almost anything even when they are un cooked. You can see my hands above***
Cut the stems and leafs off of the beets
Place beets in a large pot of boiling water(you need enough water for your pasta and extra just incase), boil until soft and you can get a fork easily through. About 15 - 20mins depending on the size of your beets
Carefully remove cooked beets with large spoon and set aside. You can eat these later, add them to your pasta, etc
In the same pot or smaller bring the beet water back to a boil
Add heart shaped pasta and boil till cooked desire
Once your pasta is cooked it will have absorbed the red dye from the beet water giving you naturally dyed red pasta
Strain pasta and set aside
Add black food dye to your white pasta sauce and top with cheese
Keep the black pasta sauce separate from red pasta until ready to eat
Add pasta and sauce to bowl and enjoy!
*Its very important that you do not mix the sauce and pasta together to save for later or you will have black/gray pasta next time.
I really wish I took the time to make a sauce from scratch but I didn’t have enough time when I made this pasta. Feel free to melt down your own cheese and add spices to make your own. You can also use activated charcoal for a more natural way to dye the sauce but be very careful. Eating too much charcoal could send you right to the bathroom!
If you make this pasta I would love to see it! Tag me on instagram @eerie.shanae and post it below!!
