How to make green spaghetti

It is a creamy base made with milk and crema Salvadoreña which is a rich, thick, sour cream, with a more robust tang than sour cream, roasted poblanos for a little spice and a hint of cilantro. The mixture is all blended together with garlic and onion and then combined with cooked spaghetti.

You can use whatever colors you want. Add about 20 drops of each food coloring and 2 tablespoons water to gallon-size resealable bags. When the pasta is done, drain it in a strainer and immediately run cold water over it to halt the cooking. Transfer the pasta, portioning it as you go, into the bags of food coloring.

Cook it al dente according to the package instructions. But while it’s cooking, prepare the large plastic zip-top bags of food coloring. I used six colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple), but you can use however many colors you prefer.

Directions: We dye our pasta exactly like we dye rice, no alcohol or vinegar is needed. Just coloring and pasta. For this batch I added one box of pasta to a ziploc bag at a time. Food coloring can also be used, especially if you have little ones who are likely to taste the pasta.

Dying Pasta Using Vinegar or Alcohol

Pour about 1/4 cup of vinegar OR alcohol into a bag and then add several drops of food coloring. The more food coloring you use, the more vibrant your colors will be. Squish the bag around in your hands to get it all mixed up and then add about two cups of dry pasta.

As a general rule, pair the heartier sauces with the wider noodles: Wide ribbons like pappardelle pair well with rich, meaty sauces while the thinner flat noodles, like fettuccine or linguine, are best paired with simple cream sauces like Alfredo or delicate proteins like seafood.

Add a drop of food colouring to each bowl, or combine two colours (such as red and yellow to make orange). Mix well, adding a splash of water to help the colour disperse, if needed. Leave for 5 mins, then rinse the spaghetti under cold running water to set the colour.

Pump about 2 tablespoons of hand sanitizer into the large zip lock bag. Add about 1/2 a teaspoon of food coloring (add as much as you like to get the desired shade). Be aware that the color will lighten as it dries on the noodles.

Rubbing alcohol

A tiny amount of rubbing alchohol will distribute the food coloring quickly and easily throughout the pasta and will then evaporate, leaving the pasta to simple soak in the dye without any extra liquid. It worked like a charm!

In just one easy step!

Simply tip your chosen pasta shape (uncooked) into a series of zip loc bags or bowls. Squirt over the desired paint colour and mix thoroughly. Tip out onto paper towels or a baking tray and leave to dry for 1-2 hours.

When playtime is over store any leftover noodles in an air-tight container in the refrigerator, and they can be used for up to one week. If you are concerned about stained hands you may want to use washable watercolors in place of food coloring.

ANSWER: Store plain (no sauce or other ingredients) cooked pasta in a container or plastic sealable bag in the refrigerate for up to five days and up to three months in the freezer. Some sources put the freezer time at two weeks.