Best Homemade Dog Food Recipes

HOMEMADE GRAIN-FREE DOG FOOD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place carrots, apples, and water into a pot. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer until soft, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Crack eggs and whisk together in a bowl; place eggshells onto a baking sheet.
• Bake eggshells in the preheated oven until dry, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Remove eggshells from the oven and pulverize using a mortar and pestle or a coffee grinder.
• Place ground chicken, chicken livers, eggs, ground eggshells, and sunflower oil into a large skillet. Heat over medium heat, mixing occasionally, until ground chicken is browned and crumbly and livers are no longer pink, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Place spinach on top of meat mixture in the skillet and cover with a lid to steam until soft, about 5 minutes.
• Mash softened carrots and apples using a potato masher and add to meat mixture; mix together.

HOMEMADE DOG FOOD WITH BEEF

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain and discard grease.
• Place 6 cups water and brown rice into a stockpot. Add browned beef, bones, and rosemary; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low or low and let simmer, stirring occasionally to prevent burning, until rice is mushy, about 45 minutes. Add water if necessary to keep mixture a little thicker than a porridge-like consistency.
• Meanwhile, place carrots, spinach, and eggs with their shells into an electric blender. Blend until completely pureed and no eggshells are intact.
• Mix pumpkin and blended egg mixture in a bowl until combined. Remove meat mixture from heat and pour egg mixture into the pot to cook the eggs in hot contents, about 5 minutes. Let cool thoroughly before feeding to your dog, about 30 minutes.

HOMEMADE DOG FOOD WITH CHICKEN

Steps:

• Pour water and oats into a rice cooker. Seal and select setting according to manufacturer's instructions; cook until tender, about 15 minutes. Pull out the pot as soon as the unit clocks to Warm setting. Set aside.
• Heat oil over high heat in a large frying pan. Add chicken and cook, covered, for 4 minutes, stirring every minute. Add green beans and cook, covered, stirring every minute, for 4 minutes. Pour in aminos and stir; chop mixture using a spatula. Cover, reduce heat to low, and let simmer for 10 minutes.
• Add cooked oatmeal to mixture; stir and chop further using a spatula. Remove from heat and let cool completely, 20 to 30 minutes.
• Package for freezing.

HOMEMADE DOG FOOD

Steps:

• Place the water, ground turkey, rice, and rosemary into a large Dutch oven. Stir until the ground turkey is broken up and evenly distributed throughout the mixture; bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes. Add the frozen vegetables, and cook for an additional 5 minutes. Remove from heat and cool. Refrigerate until using.

HOMEMADE DOG FOOD

Steps:

• Cook all 3 ground meats together in larger 6 quart dutch oven.
• Add rice, chicken broth and water. Cook on medium heat for 30 minutes.
• Add potatoes and carrots, and slightly beaten eggs. Cook for an additional 20 - 30 minutes.
• After cooking, put mixture into storage containers. This freezes very well.

GRAIN-FREE HOMEMADE DOG FOOD

Steps:

• Heat coconut oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add chicken hearts; cook and stir until browned, 5 to 6 minutes. Pour into the bowl a food processor and chop. Transfer to a bowl.
• Add minced chicken to the frying pan over medium heat. Cook and stir until evenly white throughout and no longer pink in the center, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
• While minced chicken is cooking, place carrots, apples, pears, spinach, strawberries, blueberries, and French beans into the bowl of the food processor. Blend until finely chopped.
• Stir cooked chicken hearts into the frying pan with the cooked minced chicken. Spoon chopped vegetable-fruit mixture into the pan. Cook and stir gently over medium heat until vegetables are lightly cooked, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool fully, about 30 minutes. Divide into portions and serve.

HOMEMADE DOG FOOD IN THE CROCKPOT

Steps:

• Place chicken thighs and ground chicken in the bottom of the crockpot. Cover with water.
• Add all other items.
• Cook on low for 12 hours. Mix well, remove bones. Cool before serving.
• Freeze in portion controlled servings.

HOMEMADE DOG FOOD GRAVY

Steps:

• In a sauce pan combine the can of dog food and 10 oz of water. Begin to heat the mixture.
• In a bowl combine the tablespoon of water and tablespoon of cornstarch until smooth and stir it into the dog food mixture.
• Bring the ingredients to a boil stirring constantly. Boil until thickened (about 1 minute) continuing to stir.
• Allow mixture to cool at room temperature for about 10 - 15 minutes. Once cooled pour into a blender and blend until there are no more chunks. If the mixture is too thick, add more water one tablespoon at a time. The mixture can then be stored in a hot sauce or ketchup bottle. Follow the storage and best used by date on the can of dog food used, most should be refrigerated.
• Use about 1 tablespoon of gravy for every 1/2 to whole cup of dry dog food.

HOMEMADE DOG FOOD WITH MEAT AND VEGETABLES

Steps:

• Place sweet potatoes in a large Dutch oven filled 3/4-full with water. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. Add chuck roast and bison to the pot and cook until meat is no longer pink, 10 to 12 minutes.
• Add carrots, peas, green beans, and spinach to the pot and cook over medium heat for 15 minutes. Add oats and stir until mixture has thickened, 5 to 7 minutes. Stir in pumpkin and olive oil; remove from heat and let cool a bit, 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer roast to a plate and dice meat; return to mixture.
• Use a potato masher to mash up mixture to a mushy consistency. Let mixture cool sufficiently, about 30 minutes. Place into resealable containers and freeze.

HOMEMADE GRAIN-FREE ORGANIC DOG FOOD

Steps:

• Wash and trim ends of carrots. Peeling is unnecessary if using organic ones. Cut into small enough pieces to chop in a food processor and set aside. Chop apples, green beans, blueberries, and spinach in the food processor and set aside.
• Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil and 1 tablespoon coconut oil in a large (at least 10-quart) stockpot and saute carrots until softened, about 5 minutes. Add apples, green beans, blueberries, and spinach and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until cooked through, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil and 1 tablespoon coconut oil a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir ground beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes. Add to stockpot. Add pumpkin puree, remaining olive oil and coconut oil and mix everything until well combined. Cover and allow to cool.
• Refrigerate for 8 hours, or overnight. Divide desired portions into resealable plastic bags, removing as much air as possible, and freeze until needed.

BUDDY'S AND BUBBA'S HOMEMADE DOG FOOD

Steps:

• Place the chicken leg quarters in a large pot, and fill with enough water to cover by 1 inch. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer 40 minutes. Remove the legs and allow to cool. Strain and return the cooking liquid to the pot. Once the legs have cooled. Remove and discard the skin and bones; chop the meat, and set aside.
• Stir the brown rice into the reserved chicken broth and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until the rice is tender, 45 to 50 minutes. Drain off any excess liquid, and add the rice to the bowl with the chicken.
• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat, and add the ground beef. Cook and stir until the beef is crumbly and no longer pink, about 7 minutes. Pour off any excess grease, and place the beef into the bowl. Stir in the oats, spinach, broccoli, kidney beans, carrots, cottage cheese, and olive oil. Store the dog food in resealable containers in the freezer. Thaw the daily portions overnight in the refrigerator.

BONNIE'S HOMEMADE CHICKEN DOG FOOD

Steps:

• 1. Mix all the ingredients together and heat for 20 minutes. Cool and serve. Refrigerate any leftovers.

DIY WHOLESOME HOMEMADE DOG FOOD

Steps:

• Bring water and brown rice to a boil in a saucepan. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until rice is tender and liquid has been absorbed, 45 to 50 minutes. This should yield about 1 cup cooked rice.
• Meanwhile, heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add turkey and Italian seasoning. Cook and stir until turkey is browned and crumbly, 4 to 6 minutes. Add eggs and scramble with the turkey mixture until eggs are cooked, 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Place spinach in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high for 1 minute, and then at 30-second intervals until easy to stir and warm to the touch. Drain excess liquid.
• Transfer turkey mixture, cooked rice, and spinach to a large bowl. Add spinach, tomatoes, cottage cheese, Parmesan cheese, celery, and sunflower oil and mix until well combined.

OAMC HOMEMADE DOG FOOD

Steps:

• In a large stockpot bring water to a boil, add brown rice, ground turkey and grated carrots, return to boil and reduce to a simmer. Cook for 40-50 minutes, until water is absorbed.
• Thaw and chop or puree cauliflower and broccoli mix, add chopped canned fish, with juices, and remaining vegetables to rice/turkey/carrots mixture. Heat until all ingredients are soft and mushy, adding more water if necessary. Set aside to cool.
• Stir ground flax into ricotta/cottage cheese and then stir the cheese/flax mixture, along with the pumpkin, into the rice/turkey/fish/vegetables mixture.
• For a 50lb dog fill freezer bags with 2.5 cup portions, freeze.
• Thaw in refrigerator for 24hrs before feeding time. Daily portions can be divided into two meals.