Vegan cheese/ cheese sauce

[WJM2020]

Hi all. My little boy is dairy intolerant/allergic.

Does anyone has a really yummy vegan cheese and cheese sauce (don't mind making the cheese sauce myself) they recommend?
I've tried a few of the sainsburys ones and Aldi and violife and they are just vile! 🤮
Any recommendations greatly received 😁

P.s: can't contain nuts or peanuts either as he is severely allergic to them 😵‍💫

All vegan cheese is the devil's smegma, I'm afraid. I'd steer away from cheese recipes altogether and concentrate on delicious food that doesn't require it.

Violife mozzarella is fab. So is the cheddar. I heat up oat milk on low heat, add a little onion powder then add the cheese. Stir on low heat for a few minutes then you have a delicious cheese sauce. People go mad for it.

VioLife if lovely but only if melted, in its normal state it just tastes of... nothing.

I make a white sauce then add VioLife smoked cheese slices, I break them up, don't bother grating.

@sadpapercourtesan

All vegan cheese is the devil's smegma, I'm afraid. I'd steer away from cheese recipes altogether and concentrate on delicious food that doesn't require it.

It's lovely toasted!!

**in a toasted sandwich

Try whizzing up a tin of butterbeans with the water in the the tin, in a nutri-bullet or similar, add some onion/garlic powder a pinch of dry English mustard,salt and pepper then transfer to a pan and heat through until it's bubbling, then add some grated violife or similar and you should have a lovely dairy free cheese sauce!

Thanks everyone! I'll give all of your ideas a whirl! 👍🏻

I can't tolerate cheese and I just don't eat anything with it in. I can't stand any of those vegan versions, they are just so weird and gross.

Life doesn't end without cheese I promise :)

The words lovely, yummy etc are not compatible with vegan cheese, sadly. I find that a bit of mustard powder in a white sauce can help bit but vegan cheese is very claggy so it's best avoided for sauces.

Follow your heart smoked cheese slices are tolerable.

@WJM2020

Hi all. My little boy is dairy intolerant/allergic.

Does anyone has a really yummy vegan cheese and cheese sauce (don't mind making the cheese sauce myself) they recommend?
I've tried a few of the sainsburys ones and Aldi and violife and they are just vile! 🤮
Any recommendations greatly received 😁

P.s: can't contain nuts or peanuts either as he is severely allergic to them 😵‍💫

I use cashew cream for all things such as this. I'm currently writing a cookbook but go on youtube and start adventuring with cashew cream, you won't regret it. I now indulge in decadent cheese dishes that are all good fats and healthful.

@sadpapercourtesan

All vegan cheese is the devil's smegma, I'm afraid. I'd steer away from cheese recipes altogether and concentrate on delicious food that doesn't require it.

I generally agree. There is an applewood style one which I found tolerable and then I discovered DD2 was also allergic to it.

The best thing for a sauce is probably a white sauce (alternative milk and marg) and veggie yeast flakes.

I have just got Rose Elliot's Complete Vegan out of the library and it has recipes for 'cheese' sauce, melting 'cheese', parmesan, mozarella type cheese and some creams and butter and things.

The 'cheese' sauce is made out of floury potatoes and carrots with olive oil and nutritional yeast and some other flavourings. I haven't tried it yet though!

I use the Free and Easy Cheese Flavour Sauce Mix for DS. It doesn’t taste like cheese to me, but DS has never tasted proper cheese and seems to love it.

Make a basic white sauce using flour / 'butter' and your alternative milk of choice. Then Violife epic mature grated in with a tiny dash of mustard and black pepper.

I make one using the recipe in Bosh - I think it's pretty good, if I say so myself.

Basically, make the béchamel using vegan butter, flour and plant milk. For a pint of cheese sauce, the Bosh recipe recommends 3tsp onion powder, 2tsp English mustard, 4tbsp nutritional yeast and 40g cheese. I miss out the mustard. Just stir the flavourings into the béchamel until they melt.

I don't like vegan cheese much. There is a nice cheesey sauce you can make with potato and carrot with nutritional yeast, olive oil, salt and garlic. I don't have the recipe though but you can Google it!

1 cup of cashews, 1/2 cup nutritional yeast, 1/2 cup water, juice of 1/2 lemon, garlic, turmeric, 1/2 tsp mustard, salt and pepper - whizz in blender 👌

For a white sauce, I make it with Pure, flour and oat milk then stir in 1-2 heaped tablespoons of nutritional yeast flakes (they add the cheesy/nutty/salty taste) and then usually sparsely and black pepper.

For an alternative to parmesan, take a handful of cashew nuts, 2 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes, some garlic powder and salt and blend it to a rough powder. It's delicious on pasta and you can keep the rest in a pot in the fridge for up to a month.

Not sparsley; parsley.

The 'cheese' sauce is made out of floury potatoes and carrots with olive oil and nutritional yeast and some other flavourings. I haven't tried it yet though!

This ⬆️

It’s really good and can make with sweet potatoes instead for more nutrients. Love the orange colour of it