Dog Biscuits

A nutritional and tasty treat for your Chihuahua.

Warning: if your dog is allergic to grain, do not feed them these biscuits. Instead, buy a good quality grain free dried food from any supermarket and give them 1/4 of a cup to 1/2 of a cup.

You can download a PDF of the recipes for your own reference: Chihuahua-Recipes_Dog-biscuits.pdf.

Before you start

Note: a cup is a standard measuring cup - approximately 250 ml, or 236.588 ml if you want to be more accurate!

Preheat oven to 170 degrees Celsius for a fan forced oven or 190 degrees Celsius for a conventional oven. Keep in mind that oven heats do vary so please keep an eye on the biscuits.

Ingredients

1 medium carrot
1/4 cup of green beans
1/4 cup of broccoli
1/4 cup of zucchini
1/4 of a small pineapple
3 small eggs (600 grams) or 2 extra large eggs (800 grams)
2 teaspoons of Manuka Honey
1/3 a cup of soy milk
2 tablespoons of canola oil
1 and a 1/2 cups of wholemeal flour
1/2 a cup of dry skim milk powder.

You can use any green vegetables you want, pineapple or apple (peeled and cored). Add or delete in-season vegetables as you like.

Cooking instructions

Place all vegetables and the pineapple in a blender. Chop finely.

Place all vegetables and the pineapple in a blender. Chop finely.
Beat together the eggs, canola oil, honey, and soy milk.
Place wholemeal flour and dried skim milk in a large mixing bowl and briefly combine. Make a hole in middle of the mixture.
Add both the egg and vegetable mixture into the hole and mix thoroughly. If it's too wet, add a small quantity of flour.
Place baking paper in a baking pan and lightly spray with any oil.
Evenly space out 1/2 a heaped teaspoon of biscuit mixture on to the baking sheet.

Evenly space out 1/2 a heaped teaspoon of biscuit mixture on to the baking sheet.
Dip a fork in flour and very slightly flatten each biscuit.

Dip a fork in flour and very slightly flatten each biscuit.
Bake for 35 minutes in a fan forced oven at 170 degrees Celsius or 40 minutes in a conventional oven at 190 degrees Celsius. Rotate the baking tray half way through to ensure even baking.
The biscuits should be baked hard and just turning almost burnt on the outside to ensure the little dogs have to really chew on them.

The biscuits should be baked hard and just turning almost burnt on the outside to ensure the little dogs have to really chew on them.

Storage

When cool, store in an airtight container. They can be frozen, but will likely become soft upon defrosting.

If stored in an airtight container, will last a couple of months.

Feeding instructions

For a Chihuahua, give one or two biscuits per day as their evening meal.

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