Eggless puddings ?

[PGTlatte]

Our two kids are both allergic to dairy and eggs. I want to make pudding. Whenever I try to make puddings without eggs, they come out sort of slimy. The egg replacers don't seem to work for puddings. Does anyone have a good way to make eggless pudding ? I have made chocolate pudding with cornstarch, cocoa, sugar, and soymilk, but I think the cocoa is doing something for the mixture because anytime I try to make non-chocolate pudding the texture is poor. Just kind of slimy and not creamy. I wondered if maybe I should put some lecithin from soy lecithin capsules into a pudding ? I am guessing that eggs make pudding creamy because of the lecithin........?

[Ghislaine]

Have you tried rice or tapioca puddings? I've had good luck with rice pudding using coconut milk.

[PGTlatte]

I haven't tried rice yet. When I make it with tapioca, the stuff ends up very stretchy and sort of slimy. I wonder if tapioca would behave better with coconut milk instead of soy milk. Maybe the lack of fat when I make it with soy milk is contributing to the weird texture ? I just bought three cans of heavy coconut milk a few days ago....and I have jasmine rice....so I will try coconut rice pudding ! If that works I might try the coconut with tapioca.

[*Robin*]

Try Bird's custard powder. My son was egg free for a long time. We loved this stuff... http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_35sc7tcj37_b

[PGTlatte]

It lists milk solids on the ingredients list I found...so that would be a no-go for us

[Ola_]

I agree with rice pudding, you don't need eggs in it. Use a short grain rice and you will get a lot of starch coming out of it to thicken the pudding. Also, I find it works well to do a risotto-type of process, meaning that I add in some milk, let it simmer a bit, add a bit more, cook, add some more, etc. Of course you would use whatever milk substitute you choose.

[elleystar]

Oh, have I got a recipe for you! I make this pudding all the time and both DH and I love it. (And we don't even need to be dairy or egg free!)

http://www.thenourishinggourmet.com/...t-milk_30.html

[PGTlatte]

This morning I made pudding with jasmine rice and coconut milk using a recipe I found:

http://www.recipezaar.com/Dairy-Free...-Pudding-59902

I had a bowl of it warm and it was very good. I will see how the texture is once it's chilled.

Unfortunately I only had super high fat coconut milk, so it is reeeeaaaallllly rich !!! But wow was it good ! But each can of this coconut milk has 90 grams of fat and 900 calories, and I made it into six servings of pudding and ate 2 of them for breakfast.....LOL....so I had a 300+ calorie, 30 fat gram breakfast.... Obviously I will have to try this recipe with a lower fat coconut milk !!!

I am beginning to wonder if the soymilk I use either makes things slimy because of the lack of fat, or because of an ingredient in the soymilk. Maybe the carageenan ?

I also want to try the coconut milk pudding recipe with tapioca instead of rice and see how it works. Maybe tapioca is slimy and rice is not ?

[Ruthla]

My guess would be the carageen. And what's wrong with a 300 calorie breakfast? If you ate 3 meals of 300 calories each, that would only be 900 calories for the day- not nearly enough! However, if you've got nearly 300 calories from fat alone, it's probably too low in protein to be a full meal.

[PGTlatte]

The calories didn't bother me so much, but that is an alarming amount of fat for me to eat at once ! But is the fat in coconut milk really good for you ?

The "milk" I used is labeled "coconut cream".... no wonder it made good pudding !!!! LOLOL !

Originally Posted by Ruthla

My guess would be the carageen. And what's wrong with a 300 calorie breakfast? If you ate 3 meals of 300 calories each, that would only be 900 calories for the day- not nearly enough! However, if you've got nearly 300 calories from fat alone, it's probably too low in protein to be a full meal.

[*Robin*]

Originally Posted by llp34

It lists milk solids on the ingredients list I found...so that would be a no-go for us

My can says: cornflour, salt, vanilla, color (annatto)

I either make it like vanilla pudding or I add coco powder and make it chocolate. I also use honey instead of sugar cause we can't do refined sugars here.

[*Robin*]

Originally Posted by llp34

I am beginning to wonder if the soymilk I use either makes things slimy because of the lack of fat, or because of an ingredient in the soymilk. Maybe the carageenan ?

Check out this site: http://www.truthinlabeling.org/Jack_hiddensources.htm
Carageenan can contain MSG.

[PGTlatte]

Ah - it appears I stumbled onto the instant "just add water" version !

I will see if our store carries this - they have a UK section !

Originally Posted by *Robin*

My can says: cornflour, salt, vanilla, color (annatto)

I either make it like vanilla pudding or I add coco powder and make it chocolate. I also use honey instead of sugar cause we can't do refined sugars here.

[naturegirl7]

I have a recipe book that I could not live without - we are multi food allergies here. There is a GREAT pudding recipe in there.
Gluten Free 101 by Carol Fenster

It contains sugar, cocoa, cornstarch, salt, milk, butter, and vanilla - I sub coconut milk for the reg milk and skip the butter. It is super tasty! makes a delicious choc cream pie (minus the cream for some of us LOL)
I do use a tiny bit more cornstarch than it asks for cuz the coco milk is thinner than the reg milk.