CREATIVE HANDS
To make red colour, grind red hibiscus flowers petals or rose petals after drying them in the sun and the dry colour red is ready. Red gulal can be prepared by mixing it with rice flour.
Peel the beetroot and grate it and extract its juice and add it to a mixture of cornflour and talcum powder to make a pink colour.
Apart from this, boil pomegranate peels and mix them in 10 liters of water and add some lime and two spoons of turmeric to it. Red colour will be ready.
Dry yellow colour can be made by mixing equal quantity of ground turmeric and gram flour.
Apart from this, yellow colour can also be prepared from marigold flowers, for this soak the leaves in water and yellow gulal can be prepared by filtering the yellow water and mixing it well in a mixture of cornflour and talcum powder. Sun-dried bael pulp can also be grind to make a fine dry yellow colour.
To make wet yellow colour, soak the flowers of Amaltas, Marigold, Tesu in water overnight, after boiling this water in the morning and cooling it, yellow colour can be used.
Henna can be used to make green colour. Apart from this, wet green colour can be prepared by boiling leafy vegetables like spinach and neem leaves in water.
To make wet magenta color, cut beetroot and keep it in water overnight, then the colour will be ready.
Making blue colour is a bit difficult, for this blue hibiscus flower will be required, dry the flower petals and grind it and mix it with rice flour, in this way blue colored gulal will be prepared.
Indigo can also be used to make blue dye.
Saffron colour can be made by boiling the flowers of Harsingar and Simar.
Food colours can also be used to prepare herbal colours which are available in different colours in the market.
So come on, mummy is busy in making Gujiya, have you prepared herbal colors or not for this Holi?
Bura na mano Holi hai!!!
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