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by Petplan Australia November 19, 2012

How to make a tasty Christmas dinner for your pet

With the Christmas season just around the corner, here is a very special recipe for yourdog f rom writer Elaine Everest, author of hit book Canine Cuisine, and a recipe for a f estivedinner for your cat f rom Marie Rayner, a top food blogger and author of ‘The Big Blue BinderBook’. Hope your pet likes it!

Christmas feast for your dog

Ingredients

One mug of brown rice

One beef stock cube

Half a small but ternut squash

Four large carrots

One head of broccoli

A small bunch of f resh parsley

One t ray of minced turkey

A small carton of chicken liver

Two cloves of garlic

One mug of wholemeal f lour

One mug of oatmeal

Four eggs

Half a mug of vegetable oil

Method

Heat your oven to 190°C or gas mark 5.

Put the brown rice into a pan with the stock cube and cover with boiling water. Bring to the boiland simmer unt il t he rice is cooked but not too sof t .

Meanwhile wash the vegetables. Peel the but ternut squash and chop all vegetables into even-sized pieces and place into a food processor. Blit z unt il t he vegetables resemble f inebreadcrumbs before adding the parsley for a f inal f ive-second blit z.

Place the f inely chopped vegetables into a large mixing bowl along with the wholemeal f lourand oatmeal. Mix together.

Next , place the minced beef and the ox liver into the food processor and blit z along with thegarlic cloves unt il you have a smooth paste. Add the four eggs and mix well together forseveral seconds.

Add this mix to the bowl and st ir together well. At this point , st ir in the cooked rice and add thevegetable oil unt il you have a mixture that is not too runny. It is not essent ial to use all the oil. Ifthe mix becomes too liquid, add a lit t le more oatmeal to st if fen.

Pour into a greased baking t in or two round cake t ins and place into the cent re of the oven.The new-style silicon bakeware is ideal for this recipe as the cake will slide away f rom thecontainer with ease. Bake for 45 minutes or unt il a skewer comes out clean when slid into thecent re of the cake. Turn out onto a cooling rack and leave to cool.

Af ter feeding your dog a port ion of his own cake, allow his meal to go down for an hour or sobefore enjoying a brisk walk with the whole family.

Christmas feast for your cat

Ingredients

56g cooked turkey giblets, ground or f inely minced (liver,heart , neck meat , gizzard) See note*

28g cooked rice

14g of raw, grated carrot

14g chopped spinach (or one cube of f rozen spinachthawed)

1 tsp f ish oil

Method

Heat the f ish oil in a skillet .

Add the ground giblets, rice, carrot and spinach.

Cook and st ir over medium / low heat unt il heated through and the vegetables are sof t .

Remove f rom the heat and allow to cool to room temperature before serving.

Note* - I always cover the giblets with some cold water, bring to the boil and then simmer for several hoursthe day before Christmas so that I have a nicely flavoured broth to make my gravy with.

Have fun with your pet this Christmas!