Love your dog and want to give him something really special for his dins? Try out one of our fabulous pet-recipies!
Pasta Bark makes a tasty, nutritious and balanced mid-week supper and a welcome change from your dog’s regular food. A simple mix of cooked pasta, cottage cheese, natural yoghurt, turkey, liver, fruit and vegetables. This dish can be frozen in ready-to-eat portions for up to 3 months. Makes 12 muffin-size portions.
Ingredients:
250g (8 oz) cooked pasta macaroni (preferably brown rice wheat and gluten free pasta)
150g (5 oz) cooked, boneless, skinless turkey chopped into strips
200g (7 oz) low fat Cottage Cheese
200g (7 oz) low fat natural probiotic yoghurt
50g (12 oz) french beans, topped, tailed and finely chopped
50g (12 oz) carrots, topped, tailed and finely chopped
2 tablespoons sunflower oil
1 teaspoon of brewers yeast (available from health food stores) Do not confuse with bread yeast which is toxic for dogs
3 (20g) dried apricots chopped
Setter Sauce:
250g Chicken livers
2 tablespoons sunflower oil
1 cup turkey broth or water
Method:
Mix the cooked pasta, turkey, cottage cheese, yoghurt, carrots, beans and apricots together in a large mixing bowl. Add the sunflower oil and brewers yeast and mix in.
Fry chicken liver in oil for 5-6 minutes until brown, its ok if it’s a little pink in the centre. Empty the chicken liver into a blender, add the broth or water and puree until smooth (5 seconds).
Pour 2 cups of the liver sauce over the pasta bark mixture and mix in. Spoon mixture into a greased muffin tin. Two spoons of the mixture should fill each muffin cavity.
Bake Pasta Bark in oven 200/400F Gas Mark 6 for 15-20. Allow to cool.
Turkey Jerky. This yummy treat is a wheat-free, protein and iron-rich training treat, made in minutes. Simple, protein-rich yummy training treat.
Ingredients:
1 teaspoon Blackstrap Molasses
10 uncooked turkey strips (kept back from Pasta bark)
1 teaspoon of freshly chopped parsley
Method:
Place uncooked turkey in a bowl to marinade in molasses and parsley. Leave for 1 hour or overnight in the fridge. Place coated turkey on a baking rack over a baking tray (to catch the drips). Baste with remaining marinade and bake in oven on low heat (110C) for 45 mins. Or bake for 1-2 hours if you want to dry out so it lasts longer. Allow to cool and serve.
Store in refrigerator or divide into portions and place in freezer bags and freeze until required.
Cat Recipe
Tabby Terrine makes a tasty, nutritious and balanced mid-week supper for your cat. A simple mix of brown rice, chicken, fish and vegetables this dish will be a hit with your purr-fect pet!
Ingredients:
25g cooked brown rice
20g cooked chicken, skin and bones removed, flaked
30g carrots peas from broth blended to puree
25g white fish such as coley (bones removed)
1/2 teaspoon cod liver oil
To decorate:
1 pinch Organic Catnip
Terrine jelly:
1 teaspoon of plain powdered gelatin mixed in a little warm stock then added to 1/2 pint of home-made chicken stock
Home-made chicken stock:
Chicken legs or drumsticks, chicken bones and skin
Carrots
Peas
2 pints of water
Method:
To prepare Home-made Stock:
Place chicken legs/drumsticks/bones/skin carrots and peas into a large pot and cover with water. Simmer for 45 mins to 1 hour on hob, leave to cool. Don’t add salt or cornflour.
Sieve some carrots and peas and set aside
Sieve out all bones and discard. Blend broth/veg for gravy.
The home-made stock forms the basis for this recipe. It is a very useful tool for enhancing your pet’s diet. It can be turned into a meal-topping gravy, the meat and vegetables can be used to make a meal and we can also use the stock as the base of our jelly for Tabby Terrine. It can be divided into portions and frozen until required.
Prepare Terrine:
1. Line a small jelly mold or cup with cling film.
2. Place 1 tablespoon of the jelly mix in bottom of mold. Fill mold with layers of ingredients.
3. Top with more jelly mix
4. Put in fridge or 1 hour to set.
5. Remove from fridge, turn mold or cup over and pop out. Unwrap cling film and discard.
6. Drizzle with broth gravy and sprinkle with Catnip leaves
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