{"id":1485,"slug":"green-spinach-food-coloring","title":"Green Spinach Food Coloring","description":"This homemade food coloring derives the green color from spinach.","ingredients_raw":["100 g washed spinach leaves","½ cup (125 ml) water","3 tablespoons white granulated sugar","½ teaspoon lemon juice"],"ingredients_norm":["washed spinach leaf","water","white granulated sugar","lemon juice"],"steps":["Blanch the spinach by boiling in a large volume of water for 2 minutes (until bright green) then draining and quickly transferring to cold water. Let rest 1–2 minutes.","Drain the spinach and blend it to a purée with the ½ cup (125 ml) water.","Using a cheesecloth, strain the purée into a bowl to extract the juice.","Pour the juice into a pan and add sugar.","Turn the heat to medium-high, and stir to dissolve the sugar.","Skim off and discard any foam that collects at the surface of the liquid.","Turn the heat to high and boil until the liquid reduces to a single-thread consistency.","Turn off the heat and stir in the lemon juice.","Cool slightly, then pour into an airtight jar and cool completely."],"categories":["Recipes for food coloring","Recipes using spinach","Recipes using granulated sugar","Recipes using lemon juice"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":30,"servings":null,"yield_text":"¼ cup (60 g)","difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Green_Spinach_Food_Coloring","source_ref":"4540902","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Green_Spinach_Food_Coloring&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"d591271e52124fc3b201825a09623d13ef6eb89e58d065105387e04e60061526","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:03Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:03Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/green-spinach-food-coloring"}