Top 20 healthy homemade dog food recipes your dog will love

1. A Meal for You and Your Dog

Love cooking for your dog but never have the time? Rocky Kanaka from The CW’s SAVE our SHELTER, Dog’s Day Out and founder of The Dog Bakery, has a solution.  This easy to make salmon meal for yourself can also be made for your dog.

Rocky Kanaka & FlipPhoto by  Rocky Kanaka

Photo by Rocky Kanaka

This recipe is designed for those who want to eat healthy and want their dogs to eat healthy as well but are always on the go. This is also one of the most eco friendly recipes we have seen. Instead of tossing things we would usually not eat such as broccoli stems, the recipe uses these as a key part to the dog’s delicious meal.

This recipe also has a bonus tip on what to do with that salmon skin that is usually thrown in the trash. “I get asked a lot if salmon skin is okay for dogs. While it is not safe if consumed raw, due to unwanted parasites, cooking in the oven for 20 minutes to make a crunchy, healthy, limited ingredient, organic, high omega dog snack that may help with heart health and give them a great skin and coat is a big win!” says Rocky.

And there is more, when you cook for your dog you are more conscious of what you put in your body. For all of those reasons and more we give this recipe four paws up!

Healthy meals are important for you and your dog but the best thing about this recipe from Rocky Kanaka is it allows you to take time out of your day to spend time with your family – two and four legged! Read on to find out how to do it or watch Rocky has he demonstrates!

Ingredients:

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 salmon portions SKIN ON  (1 oz per 10 pounds of dog plus any amount you would like
  • 1 squash
  • 1 head of broccoli (with stem)
  • 3 potatoes (any kind)2 carrots

Directions: (for dog’s meal)

  • Cut broccoli stem, peel carrots and cut squash. Keep the peelings as this is for your dog. Mix together and steam in rice cooker or bake in oven. Check out Rocky’s favorite rice cooker.
  • Air fry potato shavings after pouring in 1 table spoon olive oil in air fryer (or place in oven. 
  • Pan fry salmon in 1 table spoon olive oil with skin on. Start with skin side down on the pan at a medium temp. After flipping, pull off crisp salmon skin off both pieces of salmon and place in dog bowl.
  • Once everything is finished cooking mix all together in dog bowl. Chop to small bitesize for ease and a cleaner floor!

WARNING: Your dog will be very excited about this meal but it MUST COOL. Let it cool for 15-20 minutes.

Directions: (for the human meal)

  • Cut broccoli, carrots, squash and steam in rice cooker (or bake in oven. Rocky’s favorite rice cooker)
  • Slice potato chips with a slicer.  If you only have a knife, make french fries instead. Trying to cut thin potato chips by hand is not easy.
  • Air fry potato chips after pouring in 1 table spoon of olive oil in air fryer (or place in oven). Check out the air fryer that Rocky LOVES.
  • Pan fry salmon in 1 table spoon olive oil with skin on. Start with skin side down on the pan at a medium temp. After flipping pull off crisp salmon skin off both pieces of salmon and place in dog bowl.

BONUS: Watch Rocky Kanaka’s video to see a bonus pro tip on what to do with Salmon skin that is usually discarded. Your dog will thank you! 

ALTERNATIVE

Cod and salmon dog food from Spot & Tango

If you don’t have time to cook for your dog but want to feed salmon, I highly recommend the Salmon & Cod food from Spot & Tango 

Or put some wild Alaskan salmon oil onto your dog’s current food. This is easy, inexpensive while still getting some fishy goodness into your dog.