Dogs want treats. That’s a fact known worldwide. If you are a dog parent and are out of ideas on what to feed your dog, you are a part of the worried parent crowd. With thousands of dog treats in the market, you can’t always surf the internet to choose the best treat for your pup. Worry not. We have a better idea.
How about we make the treats with our own hands, knowing each ingredient that goes in? Not good at cooking? We have figured that out too for you. Here is a list of 25 simple dogs treat recipes prepared with ingredients numbering 5 or even less. So put a bib on your dog and hand them a fork and spoon. Let the feast begin!
Dog Treat Recipes
1. Peanut Butter Whole Wheat Dog Treats
Of course, Peanut butter has to be there. It’s a wonder how fast they’ll finish this one up.
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- ¼ cup of peanut butter
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp of baking powder
- Water to dough
Make a dough and then cut the treats out in a treat shape. Put them on a baking tray and then bake them at 375 degrees for 20 minutes. Brown and crisp treats ready.
2. Peanut Butter Banana Dog Treats
Banana? I’ll never be stubborn just give me a banana – says the dog. The very healthy and irresistible dish is here.
Ingredients
- 1 ripe banana
- 1 cup plain yoghourt
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- 1 Tbsp honey
Mix all these ingredients in a bowl and whip it up for a few minutes. Put the mixture into silicone molds and freeze for a few hours. What did you get? Heaven in a tray? I know.
3. Pumpkin Treats
Is pumpkin a favourite with dogs? Wait until you watch them devour it.
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup of pumpkin puree
- ⅓ cup peanut butter
- 2 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Mix them up, whip it up properly until it becomes a dough. Roll it out and cut out the dog treats. Put them on a baking tray and put them in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 20-40 minutes until they become as crunchy as your pooch prefers.
4. Sweet Potato Peanut Butter Dog Treats
Sweet potato is a healthy and tasty choice. Go for it without worrying.
Ingredients
- 1 cup of mashed sweet potatoes
- 1 cup of whole wheat flour
- ½ cup of peanut butter
Mix the mashed sweet potatoes with the peanut butter completely by stirring very well. Add the wheat flour to it a little by mixing every little bit added first.
Make a dough out of the ingredients. Roll it out with a rolling pin into a thin sheet. Cut the treats out and put them in the oven at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
5. Strawberry Yoghourt Treat
Strawberries are healthy for your pooches. They are too tasty for them to resist. Watch them listen to you when you lure them with it.
Ingredients
- Diced Strawberries
- Diced Blueberries
- Plain yoghourt
Put the dice shaped cut strawberries and blueberries in silicon moulds or freezing trays. Pour some yoghurt on the top. Freeze them for 4-5 hours.
6. Chicken Stock and Raspberries Ice Cream
Chicken and raspberries are your pooch’s idea of a birthday.
Ingredients
- Mashed Raspberries
- Chicken stock
Pour the chicken stock in the mashed raspberries. Pour the mixture into a freezing tray. Freeze for a few hours and you’re ready. Or wait, your dog is.
7. Coconut Banana Crisps
Bananas are very healthy for your dogs. Coconut adds health and flavour to the treat.
Ingredients
- 1 banana
- 1 egg
- 3 tbsp peanut butter
- 1 tsp coconut oil
- 1 cup coconut flour
Mash the banana and add all the ingredients into it. Mix them well with a whisk and dough it up. Now, make slim log shapes from the dough and cut the log into very small pieces. Bake them in an oven at 350 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes.
8. Tuna Treats
You can also serve this one to your cat. All animals love Tuna.
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 eggs
- 300 gms of fish
- Cheese
Add the beaten eggs to the minced fish. Stir the mixture thoroughly till you can’t tell one from the other. Now, add the whole cup of flour to it. After mixing them all well, add some shredded cheese to the mixture. You can also skip the cheese part if you want to make it healthier.
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Spread the mixture on the baking tray and put it in an oven preheated at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Chop the treats in the shape and size you want. Put them back in the oven for another 5 minutes to crisp them up.
9. Milk Bone Dog Treats
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup milk
- 2 cups flour
Make a dough with the whole mixture. Roll the dough out with a rolling pin. Cut out the treats in a bone shape. Now put them on a baking tray and put it in the oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. You get crispy milk bone treats your dog is going to love.
10. Himalayan Dog Chew
Ingredients
- 4 litres of skim milk
- ½ cup lime juice
- 1 tbsp salt
Add the milk to a lit frying pan and stir regularly. Now add the lime juice to the milk slowly. Again, stir stir stir. Add 1 tbsp of salt. You know what to do. Yes, stir. Turn off the flame after you see pieces of cheese forming up. Take them out and rinse them properly.
Cut out a length of fabric or cheesecloth and spread the whole cheese on it. Fold the fabric with the cheese inside. Apply hard pressure to squeeze out all the water. Leave it for a few minutes. You have the cheese. Cut it out in suitable pieces and put it in the oven at 150 degrees for 40 minutes. Remove them from the oven and allow them to dry for 24-36 hours. They’re ready. Let your dogs chew all they want.
11. Baby Food Dog Treats
You can always rely on the safety of baby food.
Ingredients
- 4-ounce jar of baby food
- 1 cup flour
Mix both the ingredients to make it up in the dough. Roll it out and cut out little treats. Put them on a baking tray and then in the oven at 325 degree celsius for 30-40 minutes.
12. Carrot Oats Dog Biscuits
Do I need to tell you how healthy carrots and oats are?
Ingredients
- 2 carrots
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- 2 cup oats
Put the carrots in a mixer and puree them. Add 2 tbsp of coconut oil and again mix it properly. Now take it out in a bowl and put oats in the mixer. Ground them coarsely. Add them to the carrot puree and mix them properly.
Put the whole mixture in a polythene wrap to roll it out. Cut it out in shapes and put it in the oven at 375 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until they turn golden.
13. Apple and Peanut Butter Dog Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 apples
- ¼ cup unsalted peanuts
- 1 and ½ cup old-fashioned oats
Puree 2 apples and take them out in a bowl. Coarsely ground the peanuts and oats together. Add them to the apple puree. Stir until well mixed. You can add more peanuts and oats till they become dough-like.
Put it all on a polythene wrap and roll it out. Cut out the treats and bake them at 375 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Watch your dogfighting over it now.
14. Chicken Rice Treats
Ingredients
- 1 cup cooked diced chicken
- ½ cup boiled mashed rice
- 3 tbsp rice flour
- 1 tbsp parsley
- 1 egg
Pour all the ingredients together. Mix them by stirring thoroughly. Pour them into silicone moulds. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Put the silicone moulds in the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes or until they turn golden brown.
Take them out of the oven and allow it to cool. Take them out of the silicone moulds and serve them freshly to your pup.
15. Chicken Flavoured Ice Cube Bones
Ingredients
- Organic chicken broth
- 2 pieces of boiled chicken breast
Shred the boiled chicken breast and put little pieces in all the ice cube moulds. Now, pour the chicken broth in those moulds. Put this tray in the freezer till they become completely frozen.
Let your dog lick on the frozen bone all they want.
16. Fried Chicken Dog Treat
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp oil
- 200 gm finely chopped chicken
- ½ tbsp turmeric
Add oil to a pan at medium flame and wait for it to heat. Now, add chicken to the heated oil and stir well. Add turmeric to it and mix well. Cook it for 10 mins. The easy dog food is ready.
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17. Sweet Potato Fries
Ingredients
- 1 Sweet potato
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- A little cinnamon and turmeric powder
Peel the sweet potato and cut it into long fry-like shapes. Mix the spices with the coconut oil. Coat the spiced oil on each fry. Put them in a preheated oven at 425 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Take them out and turn them to the other side to properly heat them.
Again, bake them for 10-15 minutes. Take them out and let them cool down. Serve them to your dog.
18. Cheesy Treats
Who doesn’t love cheese? Though, take care of your dog’s cholesterol levels before you go with it.
Ingredients
- 4 cups flour
- 2 cups shredded cheese
- ¼ cup oil
- 1 and ⅓ cup water
Add cheese to the flour in a boil. Now add oil and water. Mix all the ingredients well and make them into a dough. You can adjust water accordingly to make proper dough. Roll it out in a thick sheet with a rolling pin.
Cut the treats out of it and put them on a baking tray. Bake the treats at 250-350 degrees for 20-30 minutes or until they get good and crisp. Your cheesy dog treats are ready.
19. Apple Ginger Dog Treats
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown rice flour
- ½ cup diced apple
- ½ cup plain yogurt
- 1 tsp ginger paste or finely cut
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
Pour all the ingredients in a bowl and mix them well. Make it up into a dough by adjusting water accordingly. Roll it out with a rolling pin into a thick sheet. Cut out the treats.
Put the treats on a baking tray and put them into an oven preheated at 350 degrees. Bake them for 25 minutes or until they get crisp golden brown. Take them out and they’re ready.
20. Chicken Wild Rice Treats
Ingredients
- 1 cup boiled and mashed wild rice
- 1 cup shredded chicken
- 3 tbsp rice flour
- 1 tbsp fresh parsley
- 1 egg
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and stir them well. Put the mixture in silicon moulds filled up to the top and properly pressed. Put them into the oven preheated at 350 degrees. Bake them for 25 minutes at the same temperature.
You can keep them in an airtight container or even freeze them and they can stick for 3-5 days.
21. Pumpkin Cups
Ingredients
- ¼ cup of coconut milk
- ¼ tsp cinnamon powder
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
Put the pumpkin puree in a mixing bowl and add the coconut milk to it and the cinnamon powder to it. Blend all the ingredients well together until they become just of one consistency.
You can also adjust the milk according to the consistency you prefer. Now, put them all in small cups and put them into the freezer. Take them out and serve them to your pup.
22. Blueberry Oat Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup oat flour
- ¼ cup crushed blueberries
- ½ cup rice flour
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp olive or coconut oil
In a bowl, mix oil, blueberries and egg and beat them hard. In another bowl, mix the oat flour and the rice flour. Add the ingredients of the first bowl to the second bowl. Stir the mixture well.
Put this mixture on a baking tray in the shape of cookies. Put the tray in the oven and heat them at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
23. Diabetic Whole Wheat Dog Treats
If your dog has diabetes, it doesn’t mean they get non-tasty food.
Ingredients
- ½ cup whole wheat flour
- 2 eggs
- 1 and ½ pounds beef liver
Replace the whole wheat flour with another flour if your dog has gluten issues. Mince the beef liver very well. Beat the eggs in a separate bowl. Add the eggs and flour to the minced beef liver. Beat the whole mixture very well.
Spread it in a baking dish evenly and put it in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Keep it for a longer time in the oven if it is still not firm. Though, take care for them to stay a bit spongy. Cut them into shapes you like and let your dog have a bite.
24. Sweet Potato Salmon Treats
Ingredients
- 1 baked sweet potato
- 1 can of salmon
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup coconut flour
- Coconut oil to grease
Beat the eggs properly in a bowl. Add coconut flour and the can of salmon to it. Leave the mixture still for 10 minutes as the coconut flour needs time to absorb the liquid and expand. Now, peel the sweet potato and mash it properly. Add it to the mixture bowl.
Grease a baking pan or tray with coconut oil. Spread the mixture on the pan and put it into an oven preheated at 350 degrees for an hour or more. Bake it until it dries up completely. Take it out and cut it into small pieces.
25. Pumpkin Bacon Lollipops
Ingredients
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 strip of cooked bacon
- Some blueberries
- 1 packet of sticks
- 1 cup water
Mash the bacon completely. Add the bacon and water to the pumpkin puree. Blend them very well into each other to make a mixture of fine consistency.
Take out your freezing tray and put a blueberry in each mould. Pour the pumpkin mixture into each mould and stick a stick in each one of them. Put it into a freezer for 3-4 hours at least. Take them out and let your dog chew each pop one by one.
Conclusion of Dog Treats
Take care of your dog’s allergies and dislikes before going for any of these dog treats. Most of these recipes are storable for 3-5 days but take care not to keep them for a very long time as they might spoil and your dog might get sick.
There are some very easy and tasty recipes that anyone can prepare. Take the monotony out of your dog’s life and get them new food every few days. After all, we all love to cook for our loved ones.
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