does cooking with soya milk work?

[CarolinaMoon]

please save me the hassle of failed cooking experiments

ds has a dairy allergy.

is it possible to do e.g. bechamel sauce with veg oil, flour and soya milk?

or rice pudding made with soya milk?

anything else you'd recommend trying?

Hi,
Yes you can make both bechamel sauce and rice pudding with soya milk and they work fine, but the taste I found to be a bit watery so it may be worth putting extra cheese in the sauce or putting some fruit (apple??) in the rice pudding, otherwise it doesnt seem to have that "milky" flavour.
Basiclaay you can make anything using soya instead of cows milk, it just takes a bit to get used to the taste. Good luck

Yes I agree, we hardly ever have cow's milk in the house and use soya for everything. You may want to use a sweetened one for sweet dishes and an unsweetened one for savoury, but tbh I never notice much difference. I also put it in soups, veg crumbles, and we have made ice cream with it.

I found a lovely recipe for rice pudding made with coconut milk on the Waitrose website - I posted it on the allergies site if you're interested.

Thanks very much everyone

MI, that recipe looks delicious. I shall start gently bruising some cardamom pods ASAP.

I think rice pudding works best with those rolled rice flakes rather than normal rice.