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Eggs and Beets Make for Naturally Dyed Easter Treat

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Chances are, if you're hard boiling and dyeing batches of eggs today, you're prepping for an Easter Egg hunt, not dinner.

Over at Grist.com, however, they're sharing a recipe for pink-eggs that you can actually eat.

Instead of soaking the eggs in artificial colors, the recipe calls for dropping the eggs in a pickled beet brine.

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From Grist.com

Deviled eggs are already a perfect party food. Add this bright shot of color to the mix and you’ve taken them to another level of wow. In researching these guys I learned that the tradition of beet-pickled deviled eggs is a big one in Pennsylvania. You take a half dozen eggs, plop them in the pickled beet brine, and let them sit overnight, or longer, depending on your desired hue.

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Head over to Grist to see the full recipe.

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