Raw/Whole/Wild/Regional/Seasonal Dog Food Recipe

Recipe courtesy Gianni Ortiz

Show: Food Network SpecialsEpisode: Rachael Ray Feeds Your Pets

Rated: 3 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (15)

RECIPE
COMMENTS & REVIEWS(15)

Cook Time:
15 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
this recipe serves 1 large dog for a month

Times:

Prep: 25 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 15 min
Total:: 40 min

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Ingredients

2 pounds ground turkey
3/4 ground beef
2 tablespoons bone meal
1 tablespoon fenugreek
1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves, use less if dried
1/4 cup marigold petals
1 cup roughly chopped parsley leaves
2 apples, or 8 ounces fruit, no grapes or raisins, roughly chopped
1 squash, roughly chopped
2 carrots, roughly chopped
1 cup broccoli florets
1 cup dandelion greens
1/2 pound haddock, chopped into 1-inch squares
1/4 pound beef heart, chopped into 1-inch squares
1/4 pound liver, chopped into 1-inch squares
1/4 pound kidney, chopped into 1-inch squares
1/4 pound gizzards, chopped into 1-inch squares
1/4 pound beef fat, chopped into 1-inch squares
4 eggs
1/2 cup olive oil
4 cloves pressed garlic
1/2 cup dried organic seaweed, soaked and strained to remove the salt
2 cups chicken or beef stock, optional

Directions

Put ground turkey and beef into a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl combine bone meal, fenugreek, rosemary, marigold petals, and parsley, and mix well. Combine with the meat mixture. Use a food processor to grate apples, squash, and carrots. Add broccoli florets and dandelion greens and mix well. Add to the meat mixture. Combine haddock, beef heart, liver, kidney, gizzards, and beef fat and mix well. Add to the meat mixture. Combine eggs, olive oil, pressed garlic, and seaweed and mix well. Add to the meat mixture and thoroughly mix all the ingredients with your hands.

Recipe can be served as is to dogs that are accustomed to a raw diet. Otherwise make patties and poach them in chicken or beef stock.

To serve either raw or poached, put a generous helping of recipe into dog bowl, add 1 cup of high quality, meat based kibble, 1 egg, 2 to 3 tablespoons of olive oil, and supplement with super foods: digestive enzymes, probiotics, co-enzyme q10, and wild blue green algae.

Recipe can be made ahead and stored frozen in 1 week-sized containers.

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recipe Raw/Whole/Wild/Regional/Seasonal Dog Food Recipe
Gretchen Appleton, WI 01-23-2009
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Hooray for catering to critters! Okay, so this might need a little "tweaking" but looks great!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This looks good enough for a "people recipe" although by reading comments it might need a little tweaking by not using the... garlic, etc....and not mixing this in with kibble since comments made us aware that raw food should be eaten alone and not combined for a healthier digestion. I did not feel that it was a total substitution for dog food but was a healthy supplement and will definitely try it. Thanks!Read more
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Claudia Washington, DC 12-17-2008
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DANGER!!!
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

Do not EVER feed garlic to dogs or cats. This is a major oversight, and I'm afraid for her pets and anyone who is foolish... enough to use this recipe. TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE idea. Read more
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Anonymous 03-29-2008
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Educational and a good start
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Although there are many differing views on feeding dogs the most important thing to come away from all this is that just as... processed foods are bad for people they are also bad for animals. The products that go into commercial dog foods is highly suspect. Look at what goes on with people food? The incidence of cancer in dogs is increasing rapidly and there is data to support it comes from toxicity in their environment and in their food.I think this is a great step in creating awareness out there.BTW Evangers whole chicken bones are soft, not brittle but the life is cooked out of them. Do your homework and find a good holistic vet to help guide you. Remember many old dog lived eating under the kitchen table with leftover human food!Read more
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Marlynn Fort Pierce, FL 03-14-2008
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EXTREMELY HEALTHY
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Breeders and vets in England and Australia have been advocating such a diet for a long time. My pooches love it.
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Anonymous 03-10-2008
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in response to the previous post
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

1. Dogs are ideally carnivores. They eat meat, bones, and organs and resort only to vegetable matter when absolutely... necessary. Saying that dogs are omnivores gives some people the wrong idea that a dog can thrive on vegetables and even thrive on a vegetarian diet. While yes, vegetables don?t necessarily harm dogs, the IDEAL diet for a dog does not consist of vegetables. 2. Lactose won?t cause any life threatening illness to your dog, but it?s still not recommended for dogs. I wouldn?t want to feed my dog something that is known for causing dogs problems, albeit it is not all dogs. 3. This actually makes a big difference because RAW meat can take as little as 5 hours to digest while COOKED foods, like kibble, can take as much as 15 hours to digest. Mixing the two could cause raw to move more slowly than it should, giving the opportunity for bacteria to accumulate and cause problems. 4. There is such a thing as overdoing supplements. If you don?t know how to properly feed a homecooked diet, you can do harm by adding unnecessary vitamins/minerals and overdosing the dog. With a raw diet you generally feed a variety of protein sources in order to have a greater chance of fulfilling the nutritional needs since some proteins are more nutritious than others. With the 80/10/10 guideline you?re not looking for a precise, balanced diet. Wolves in the wild do not try to balance their diets. They eat prey-model style and thrive on it. The problem with showing these ?fun additions? to dogs? diet is that uninformed people think they should replace their dogs? actual meals. If you would like to discuss this further just email me at incandescence_x@hotmail.com. No need to clog up the FN review page.Read more
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Anonymous 03-10-2008
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in response to previous reviewer
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

1. Isn't it splitting hairs to insist they be called opportunistic carnivores? While they are in the order Carnivora, so are... pandas(live on bamboo) and bears (most definitely omnivoristic).Cats are the only true carnivores, while dogs do well with a mixed diet.2, Not all dogs are lactose intolerant, same as people.If your dog is, then use a substitute, or don't use the recipe.3.All foods digest at different rates, what difference does that make? 4.Supplements may be a good safety net, as most people aren't dog nutritionists and don't have a clue what the diet might be short of. You could get a wide variance with 80% meat and 10% organ, it would be hit or miss if they happen to choose the exact 80/10 that would cover everything. She didn't say these recipes were to totally take the place of a dogs regular diet, thats not what the show was about. They are just fun additions to a regular,balanced diet.Read more