Independence Day 2024: How to get Indian tricolour colours from natural ingredients

Independence Day is around the corner and will be celebrated with much fanfare across the country. People are looking forward to spending the weekend with their family and loved ones. Independence Day is an occasion to be proud of our country’s heritage and culture and in fact, it is an excuse to paint everything in three colours – orange, white and green. Festivals are occasions to get together and relish festive sweets and delicacies. One of the highlights of Independence Day celebrations is the tricolour dishes that can be easily made at home.

You must have seen food bloggers and food experts decorating their food in the three colours of the Indian national flag. While these dishes look incredibly beautiful, one might think that they are very difficult to recreate at home. But that is not the case. You can make aesthetically pleasing tricolour dishes for your Independence Day get-together by adding some natural ingredients.

Here’s how to get the colours of the Indian national flag for your recipes:

1. Tricolor Salad

Talking about salads, it is very easy. All you need to do is take a mix of bright and fresh vegetables. With a bright green lettuce for the flag green colour, maybe some chopped radishes for the white colour and some chopped orange carrots for the saffron colour, you can create a beautiful tricolour salad plate for your lunch table.

2. Tricolor Mains

When it comes to Desi mains, there are endless possibilities to make incredible looking ‘patriotic’ dishes. From tricolor pulao to tricolor puri, you can use your creative imagination as much as you want. Green colour can be made using fresh spinach, white can be brought in using rice flour or semolina and orange can be made using carrot puree or raw tomato puree. Coconut milk and grated coconut can also be used for white colour.

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For pasta it’s even easier. Divide your pasta portion into three batches and cook them in tomato sauce, pesto sauce and cheese sauce and then plate them together to form a tricolor. Here’s a recipe for tricolor pasta that you’ll love.

3. Tricolor Snacks

Even small finger foods can be given tricolour colours. For instance, idlis are one of the easiest snacks to be decorated with patriotism. You can use mint or coriander for the green part of the batter, the white one is plain and for the orange part you can use carrot puree or mashed pumpkin.

4. Tricolor Sweets

There are so many sweets you can make for Independence Day. From tricolor halwa (three types of vegetable pudding) to tricolor rasgulla, there are so many great sweets that you can experiment with. You can use matcha powder for the green colour and saffron strands are best for the orange colour. If you are making a three-layered pastry, you can experiment with so many different flavours. You can use kiwi pulp for the green colour and orange pulp for the saffron strands, like a fruit trifle. Here is a list of tricolor sweets that you will love.

Try to use as many natural colours as possible, as added colours are harmful for food. Happy Independence Day 2024!