What do you serve your most faithful friend for lunch? When the dish turns into a bowl and your friend becomes a furry puppy, there is no joke! Taking care of your dog also means choosing your food carefully and carefully. Why not prepare something at home? "The food we serve to our puppy is healthy and genuine! I propose you the homemade reinterpretation of dry food for dogs with meat, rice and vegetables!
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Identity Card of the Recipe
- 157 KCal Calories per serving
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Ingrediants
For about 400 g of dry croquettes
- 250 g of carrots
- 150 g of zucchini
- 250 g of mixed lean minced meat
- 60 g (1 medium) of eggs
- 60 g of rice flour
- 60 g of wholemeal flour
- Boiled food: 200 g of rice
Materials Needed
- Baking tray
- Pasta knife or wheel
- Bowl
- Spatula
- Mixer
Preparation
- Wash the vegetables by peeling the carrots (optional) and removing the baby from the courgettes. Cut the vegetables into slices and boil them for a long time in water.
- Meanwhile, heat a skillet and, without adding seasonings, brown the ground beef (chicken, turkey and beef) over high heat for 5-6 minutes.
- Combine the boiled vegetables and the ground and browned meat in a blender container: reduce the mixture to a puree.
Did you know that
The cooking liquid of the vegetables can be used to soften the dog's croquettes or to mix it with other food: in the cooking broth, in fact, vitamins and mineral salts of the vegetables are dispersed.
As an alternative to zucchini and carrots, you can use spinach, beets or beets.- Combine the meat and vegetable cream in a bowl and mix with the previously boiled rice. Mix with rice flour, wholemeal flour and eggs: you will have to obtain a thick and sticky dough.
- Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
- Spread the mixture on a plate lined with baking paper and obtain a rectangle with a thickness of about one centimeter.
- Bake the layer of dough in the oven at 200 ° C (ventilated) for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and cut the rectangle into small cubes, using a long blade knife or a pizza cutter.
- Bake again and continue cooking at 180/160 ° C for another 20-30 minutes, until the croquettes are firm.
- Allow to cool: check the consistency of the food. If the croquettes are moist, let them dry in the oven at low temperatures until the desired crunchiness is obtained.
- Keep the croquettes in a plastic bag for 7-10 days or in a tin box.
Attention
For proper storage, the croquettes must be dry: humidity could cause the development of mold.Alice's comment - PersonalCooker
Do you love dogs too? If so, I advise you not to miss this video: it will be very useful for you to understand how to take care of Fido (also) through home nutrition. The same rules apply to the dog's diet: there are "good" foods to prefer and "harmful" (or potentially dangerous) foods to avoid. Sometimes, interpreting the label of industrial dog food is not easy, and many of us prefer to serve their puppy home-made food, avoiding the risk of giving the dog poor quality by-products. Our 4-legged friends need the right amount of complex carbohydrates, proteins and fats, with possible specific vitamin and mineral supplementation. Let's go one step further and see which foods to prefer and which ones to avoid.
Dog Health Friendly Foods
In order for Fido to grow healthily, we need to ensure that he is properly fed. The home diet for the dog consists of the combination of meat, starches, vegetables and any supplements such as vegetable oils, vitamins and minerals. Let's find out which foods are considered "faithful allies" of your health:- Meat: preferably chicken, turkey and beef;
- Raw yolk, rich in fats and vitamins precious for the dog;
- Carbohydrates: corn, wheat, rice, oats, barley, puffed rice;
- Fibers and vegetables: bran, spinach, chicory, beetroot, carrots, zucchini, pumpkin;
- Fats: vegetable fats are preferred (eg olive oil, peanut butter, foods rich in linoleic acid, such as sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, soybeans, corn, nuts).
For some foods we need to pay special attention:- Liver: the dog is particularly fond of the liver but the administration of this food must be considered because an excess could cause a vitamin A intoxication;
- Raw eggs: although the raw yolk is very useful to the dog for the right amount of fats and vitamins, it is good to avoid the administration of raw egg white. Uncooked egg white, in fact, is a source of avidin, an antivitamin substance that can cause vitamin deficiencies.
A dog's diet is not like ours: some foods that we consider appetizing could be very dangerous for Fido. Let's find out what are the foods that Fido should not consume:- Dark chocolate: the theobromine present in this food could be responsible for a "potentially fatal intoxication in the dog (it is lethal if taken in doses equal to 330 mg / kg of body weight of the dog);
- Raw pork: it could contain a virus responsible for a "deadly encephalitis for the dog (pseudorabbia);
- Sugar: responsible for heart disease and diabetes;
- Foods rich in salt: can create a rise in blood pressure;
- Onion and broad beans: they can cause damage to the circulatory system (negative effect on the red blood cells);
- Lactose: as an adult, the dog does not tolerate foods containing lactose because it does not have the enzyme capable of digesting it;
- Animal bones: it is not recommended to give the dog chicken, pig and rabbit bones. These bones break easily and can cause suffocation, damage the gastrointestinal tract or obstruct the intestines;
- Aged cheeses and sausages;
- Grapes and raisins: possible causes of kidney problems in dogs (kidney failure);
- Alcohol (beer, wine, spirits): the intake of alcohol can generate the same effects in the dog as it produces in humans;
- Homogenized with vegetables and meat flavored with onion.
Here are some useful tips to improve the life of our four-legged friend:- Avoid constant changes in food habits to remedy unpleasant gastrointestinal phenomena;
- Enrich food with aromas: the dog's sense of smell is highly developed, therefore the aroma of the food plays a leading role;
- Serve lukewarm food: the dog does not like food that is too cold or too hot;
- Cook pasta and rice for a long time: in this way, the dog digests starches much better;
- Recover the cooking water of boiled vegetables, rich in minerals and vitamins;
- Integrate the diet with vitamins and mineral salts, especially if the dog does not like vegetables;
- Serve wet food: the dog prefers wet food, therefore the croquettes can be mixed with vegetable broth to make the meal more palatable;
- Prefer animal proteins to vegetable ones, which are less digestible for the dog;
- Avoiding overtime meals to prevent obesity;
- The dog is habitual: it is advisable to give food at the same time and always follow the same diet;
- Ox bones: to make up for the dog's insatiable need to gnaw, it is possible to give him, from time to time, some ox bones.
Commentary on the Videoricetta
What a satisfaction to prepare something good for our four-legged friends! For a long shelf life, I recommend that you dry the croquettes very well by maintaining a low temperature for a long time. You can also dry them in two or three days, even taking advantage of the heat of the sun (if you prepare the croquettes in the summer): in this way you can keep them even for a month or more!
Also try the sausage for dogs!Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe
The dry food for dogs is a food for animals that can be used in the usual diet of the dog.
They have an average energy intake, provided mainly by carbohydrates, followed by lipids and finally by proteins.
The carbohydrates tend to be complex, the fatty acids mainly unsaturated and the proteins above all having a high biological value. Fiber is present and cholesterol is not too significant.
The average portion of Dry Dog Food varies according to the size of the animal.
