Dairy Free Sour Cream Recipe - My Whole Food Life (2024)

FAQs

What is a substitute for sour cream that is dairy free? ›

This depends on your personal health goals. Forager sour cream is not necessarily nutritious, but is relatively light in calories and fats when compared to dairy sour cream and other vegan sour cream brands. A two tablespoon serving contains just 35 calories and 2.5 grams of fat.

Dairy. Add milk, cream, cheese, cottage cheese, kefir, yogurt, or sour cream to an otherwise Whole30 meal, for each of your meals that day.

This dairy-free sour cream substitute keeps in the fridge for up to a week. This vegan sour cream is the perfect finishing touch for so many recipes. Drizzled onto tacos or bowls of chili, dolloped on top of nachos or in baked potatoes, or even thinned out with citrus and other seasonings for a salad dressing.

Cream Cheese, Mascarpone, and Cottage Cheese

Fresh, spreadable cheeses like cream cheese and mascarpone generally work well as 1:1 substitutes for sour cream in baking. Be sure to let them warm up to room temperature before using, and thin them out slightly by stirring in milk or lemon juice to get a similar texture.

Full-fat Greek yogurt will offer the closest approximation of sour cream's flavor and texture, and can be used as a one-to-one replacement for sour cream. If you'd like, you can stir some heavy cream into any percentage of Greek yogurt to give it a somewhat richer body and higher fat content.

Yes, our sour cream and cottage cheese are milk-based products.

Vegan Sour Cream Tips

This dairy-free sauce is made with rich and creamy raw cashews, water, tangy lemon juice and apple cider vinegar, salt, and a dab of Dijon mustard for additional complexity and intrigue.

From its introduction, Cool Whip was labeled and advertised as non-dairy, but as of 2018 it contains skimmed milk and sodium caseinate, a milk derivative. Even before the skimmed milk was introduced, Cool Whip was classified in Jewish dietary traditions as dairy because of the sodium caseinate.

If you are in a pinch, there are vegan sour cream brands like Green Valley, Forager, Kite Hill, and Tofutti that sell vegan, dairy free versions at your local grocery store, Walmart, Amazon, and Target. They also make vegan butters and cream cheese using plant-based ingredients!

Does Trader Joe's have vegan sour cream? ›

Leave it to our fave vegan-friendly grocery store to come through with the plant-based sour cream! The Trader Joe's Vegan Sour Cream Alternative contains a mix of coconut oil, corn starch, and potato starch, making it a 1:1 replacement for all your go-to sour cream applications.

Coconut milk

Coconut milk is an excellent non-dairy alternative to sour cream. Not to be confused with coconut water, coconut milk comes from the meat of freshly grated coconut.

We go through extraordinary lengths to remove impurities from the milk before we introduce very specific live and active cultures (the good bacteria) to the cream that creates the unmistakable character that has made Daisy Sour Cream America's favorite brand.

Storage Tips. Seal the plant based sour cream in an airtight container for up to 7 days in the fridge. You can also freeze vegan sour cream for up to 3 months.

Vegan Sour Cream Tips

This dairy-free sauce is made with rich and creamy raw cashews, water, tangy lemon juice and apple cider vinegar, salt, and a dab of Dijon mustard for additional complexity and intrigue.

Lactose is the sugar found in milk. Some people produce too little of the enzyme lactase to digest this sugar, causing lactose intolerance. People with lactose intolerance typically can tolerate small amounts of lactose. Low-lactose dairy products include butter, hard cheese, yogurt, kefir, sherbet, and sour cream.

Yes, our sour cream and cottage cheese are milk-based products.

Lactose-free dairy products may include milk, cream cheese, sour cream, yogurt, kefir and butter. Dairy free is just that, it's a product that is free from dairy! The product does not contain any milk or milk products from cows, sheep or goats.