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I've experimented with fresh pasta, using the following ingredients to color it:

  • Beetroot puree
  • Carrot puree
  • Cocoa powder

The first two were successful, the cocoa poweder resulted in a very visually appealing but rather disgusting pasta.

Any other suggestions for stuff you can put in the dough, other than the banal versions using spinach or dried tomatoes, to make for interesting colors?

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  • Note that it should be tasty :) – Electric Monk Jul 18 '10 at 7:52
  • I've never made chocolate pasta, but my mom would occasionally get it from the italian grocery near where she worked. You have to treat it as a desert -- serve with berries and whipped cream. If I were to make it myself, I'd make sure to use Dutch Process cocoa, as it's not as harsh. – Joe Jul 18 '10 at 13:24
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We use spinach to color and flavour fresh pasta.

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    +1 for spinach, makes an earthy green pasta and very nutritious. – Sobachatina Aug 27 '10 at 2:04
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Purple kale leeches blue anthocyanins into the water when it's cooked. Perhaps you could juice and then cook purple kale?

Squid ink is a classic of course.

Turmeric would make an eye-searing yellow.

Also, cocoa pasta can be very nice served hot with very cold ice cream.

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Some things I've tried (separately):

  • tomato, in paste form;
  • fresh broccoli / spinach, finely chopped;
  • lemon, juiced and zested; and
  • if you're feeling fancy, saffron.

As for cocoa, I'd probably add sugar to offset the taste of the unsweetened cocoa powder.

Also, since roux suggested turmeric, I'm thinking it might be interesting to add curry powder, which already contains turmeric.

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Try Matcha tea, buy the culinary matcha as it is less expensive.

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Amaranth greens will get you pink pasta. Potentially VERY pink pasta.

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Have you tried blueberry, cranberry and currant?

P.S. I have no clue if it will be eatable :)

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