A Colourful Halloween Menu
Celebrate Halloween with recipes that feature the emblematic colours of the day: orange, black, witchy green and bloody red. Discover the natural ingredients you can use and a few tasty ideas that will please everyone, big and small.
1. Orange
This signature colour evokes both brightly lit pumpkins and the vibrant colours of the fall season. Orange is easy to add to recipes, given that it can be found in a wide variety of foods, including citruses such as orange, as well as spices.
Featured Ingredients
Pumpkin or butternut squash flesh
Carrots
Sweet potatoes
Turmeric
Paprika
Tasty Ideas
Use turmeric or sweet paprika to give rice , dips and pasta a lovely orange hue.
Try This Recipe:
Tofu Tikka Masala by RICARDO
2. Black
A must alongside orange, black is associated with nighttime and bats. Natural ingredients able to replicate this dark hue are less frequent, but their effect is satisfying.
Featured Ingredients
Activated charcoal (food grade and in small amounts)
Squid ink
Black sesame seeds
Black cocoa powder
Tasty Ideas
Activated charcoal, available in powder form, is available at Rachelle Béry Natural Source and Wellbeing spaces, and is perfect for “blackening ” ice cream , cookie dough or bread . We recommend using it in very small quantities, much like squid ink , which comes from the secretions of a squid (a cephalopod from the calamari family). This liquid pigment , the signature ingredient of the Italian pasta dish al nero di seppia intense colouring powder and subtle iodized taste .
Much more readily available, black sesame seeds and intense black cocoa powder allow you to bring a dark hue to your recipes, be they sweet or savoury.
Black Dishware for a Trendy Table
In order to give black the attention it deserves during your Halloween festivities, opt for matte black dishware. Perfect for celebrating in style and highlighting the contents of your plate, and it adds an aura of mystery to the party.
3. Green
This colour is associated with magic potions and supernatural creatures (witches, monsters, etc.), and it also symbolizes freshness. Used as an accent, green is a great contrast to orange and it helps invigorate black. It also highlights the holiday’s fantastical side, and can be found in many foods.
Featured Ingredients
Spinach
Parsley, cilantro, mint, etc.
Matcha
Green spirulina
Tasty Ideas
Matcha , a green tea powder, and green spirulina , a type of algae, are two superfoods that can naturally provide colour to a smoothie , icing , cake batter , cookie dough , etc. In many recipes, they can be combined to create an even more intense green colour.
4. Blood Red
Nature provides a multitude of shades of red. You can find them in many fruits, such as strawberries , raspberries and cherries , and also in beets . As for tomatoes, their bright red colour can be darkened with spices like paprika to give it a shade closer to blood red.
Featured Ingredients
Cherry syrup
Pomegranate or cranberry juice
Dried hibiscus flowers (for tea)
Tasty Ideas
Raspberry Sorbet Bloody Caesar Gory mocktail (pomegranate juice with a bit of lemon)
Tomato soup with smoked paprika
Try This Recipe:
Pork Meatballs with Tomato-Beer Sauce