Baked Salmon Dog Treats
These homemade salmon dog treats are an easy recipe to make and is greeted with wagging tails! They make great dog training treats too as well as a healthy snack.
My dogs go crazy for these treats and this recipe has found it onto the weekly baking rotation. The treats bake to a nice crunchy biscuit.
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Making Salmon Dog Treats
A food processor is needed to make this salmon dog treats recipe. These helps the ingredients bind into a dough but you could always use a bowl and strong stirring arm. The mixture may not be as smooth but would still bake the same.
Canned Salmon Dog Food Recipe Ingredients
These baked salmon treats are made with a few store cupboard items:
- Canned salmon
- Egg
- Rice Flour – other flours can be substituted
- Rolled Oats
- Fresh Parsley – helps as a breath freshener but it’s a fighting battle with the salmon!
How to store baked dog treats
Refrigerator:
Store in an airtight container for up to 5–7 days. Although mine have not yet lasted that long with my four dogs!
Freezer:
For longer storage, freeze them for up to 2–3 months. You can thaw them in the fridge overnight or give them to your pup slightly frozen for a cool treat.
Since the treats contain fresh ingredients like salmon and egg, they don’t have preservatives, so refrigeration or freezing is a must to keep them safe and fresh.
Recipe Tips
Add a tin of tuna to the mixture for an extra fishy treat. More flour will need to be added to help the mixture bind.
The fresh parsley is optional but could be replaced with other dog friendly herbs as basil, oregano or rosemary.
Rice flour can be used with your preferred flour for dog treat baking. I’ve made a batch with coconut flour that worked but reduced the quantity of the flour.
The bone shape cookie cutter is more for me than the dogs! You could roll out the dough and cut it into squares before baking.
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Salmon Dog Treats
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Ingredients
- 14.75 oz salmon canned
- 1 medium egg
- 2 cups rice flour
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F degrees
- Place all of the ingredients into a food processor. Do not drain the juice from the salmon and use that too.
- Process until you have a pliable dough. Add more flour if the dough is too sticky to handle.
- Roll the dough out between two layers of parchment paper to about 1/4 inch thick.
- Cut shapes out and place onto a parchment lined baking tray.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes until golden, turning the shapes over after 20 minutes for an even bake.
- Allow to cool before use.
Notes
Nutrition
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The rice flour will raise blood sugar and cause diabetes!
Our pets need to eat low carb or no carb! I feed my Texas chihuahua rescue a ketovore diet. And she, Mariposa, fasts with me! Yes, IF!
My go to treat is a 150 gram of whole canned mackerel in a plain tomato sauce. Found in the International food section. Under $1.00🇨🇦. Just scoop out 1/4 or 1/3 of the can…and let your pet enjoy.
I do serve raw 🐓chicken 🐓feet to my chihuahua. They are the perfect balance 🐓of 🐓fat, 🐓protein, 🐓collagen and a extraordinary high natural source of 🐓glucosamine and 🐓chondroitin. (It is baking the feet that makes them dangerous.) I individually wrap them and freeze them.🐓 My chi loves them frozen…she eats them slower that way! My Canadian 🇨🇦Chinese grocer sells the feet for 🇨🇦$2.59/pound while the drumsticks are for sale at $1.29🇨🇦 That is how much they are prized!🇨🇦For stock making!
I love the big personalities that chihuahua’s have!
Just found your site and tried this salmon recipe and my four puppers loved it so much, I subbed salmon for fresh liver from our local butchers shop and it has worked wonders for our dogs with allergies. Thank you for putting this out for the public!
Delighted your dogs enjoys this! And 4 too! The same as us. Love the substitute idea. I will try it!
My dogs loved them! I did have to sub the oats for almond meal (had no oats available). Still turned out perfect according to the dogs!
How long do they last and should they be refrigerated?
Delighted to hear they are enjoyed! I must try them with almond flour too! Store them in an airtight container in the fridge and they should last a week. They freeze well too.
What is the shelf life of these treats?
Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5–7 days.