Make your own dog food: Recipes with chicken
If you do not want to buy conventional food for your four-legged friend for health or financial reasons, you can cook dog food yourself. Chicken is particularly suitable as an ingredient, because many dogs like chicken and poultry is also suitable as a light diet. Ideas for various delicious recipes with and without chicken, as well as tips for the preparation you get here.
Whether with chicken or other ingredients: If you cook dog food yourself, you have full control over what ends up in the bowl and can adapt the food exactly to the needs of your four-legged friend. When shopping for ingredients, the more natural the better.
Advantages of homemade food
Classic dog food often comes with too many carbohydrates as a cheap filler. It is much healthier if you cook dog food yourself. Also, if you value sustainable production of pet food, you would do well to prepare it yourself. For example, you can make sure that all ingredients have been grown or produced in an ecological way – from meat to treats.
As a good base for all recipes, it is important that the quality of the ingredients is impeccable. A good mix of meat or fish, healthy carbohydrates and vegetables for vitamins is important. Every now and then, however, it may also be pure chicken, for example. In general, beef and lamb can be fed raw – but that also depends on your dog’s taste. Game and poultry should be cooked.
Attention: In all recipes with chicken, it is very important that no chicken bones are added, as these splinter when eaten and could injure the dog.
Dog food with chicken and rice
This recipe for homemade dog food with chicken is also very suitable as a sparing food for furry noses. You will need these ingredients:
200 g whole grain rice
250 g chicken breast
1 carrot
some olive oil
1 tsp bone meal
Preparation – here’s how:
Cook the rice according to the instructions on the package.
Cut the chicken breast and the carrot into pieces.
Fry the meat together with the carrot pieces in olive oil.
Mix another small teaspoon of bone meal into the homemade food.
Let everything cool down to room temperature before feeding it to your pet.
Chicken, millet and egg make a delicious dog food
Apart from rice, millet is also wonderful if you want to prepare a chicken recipe for your dog. A boiled egg provides important additional nutrients such as essential fatty acids and amino acids. You will need these ingredients:
2 chicken legs
Parsley
Olive oil
1 egg
About a handful of millet
Preparation – here’s how:
Cook the chicken legs in a baking dish with two cups of water.
Boil the millet in water and let it swell.
In parallel, boil the egg for eight minutes and then cut it into small pieces.
When the meat is cooked, remove it from the bones and cut it into small pieces.
Mix the chicken meat with the millet, the chopped egg, some parsley and olive oil.
Lung and rice for active dogs
If it should not be chicken, you can also cook with fresh beef lung for your dog. For this dog food recipe you will need the following ingredients:
250 g beef lung
125 g round grain rice
1 carrot
1 cored apple
1 tablespoon olive oil
Preparation – here’s how:
Cut the lung into bite-sized pieces.
Boil the meat together with the rice for about 20 minutes in 250 milliliters of water.
Chop the carrot and apple with a blender and add a tablespoon of olive oil.
Mix all the ingredients together and feed your dog when the dish has cooled completely.
Make your own dog biscuits
Many dog food recipes are homemade in no time, including dog biscuits, which are great as a tasty treat in between meals. For the most part, you certainly have the ingredients for the food at home:
150 g curd
200 g ground high-quality dog flakes
1 egg yolk
6 tablespoons sunflower oil
6 tablespoons lactose-free milk
Preparation – this is how it works:
Mix all ingredients well and form them into small balls. More preparation is not necessary.
The dog biscuit must now bake in the oven for about 30 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius. Again, serve only when cooled.
