Valentina’s New Krunchy Kibble
Recipe
Revised, Jan. 29, 2014
DRY MIX:
ð 1 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour
ð 2 TBSP VEGEDOG (Vitamin Supplement for Vegan Dogs)
ð 1 1/2 cup rye flour
ð 1 cup brown rice flour
ð 1 cup millet flour
ð 1 tsp. salt
ð 1 1/2 cup oat flour
ð 2 TBSP VEGEYEAST
ð 2 TBSP nutritional yeast(fortified with B-12 )
ð 1 cup garbanzo bean flour
ð 1/2 cup raw wheat germ
ð 1 cup buckwheat flour
ð 1/2 cup quinoa flour
ð 1/2 cup hemp protein
ð 2 TBSP kelp powder
ð 1/2 cup coconut flour
ð 1-1/2 cups barley flour
WET MIX:
ð 2 cups sweet potatoes, baked at 350 degrees until soft (30-45 min.?) and then cooled a bit.
ð 3 ripe bananas, mashed
ð 4TBSP flaxseed meal + 3/4 cup boiling water (Stir and wait 2 or 3 minutes)
ð 1-3/4 cups water
ð 3 TBSP coconut oil (or olive oil)
ð 1 cup dried cranberries, minced (preferably no sugar or sweetened with apple juice)
ð 1-1/2 cups frozen blueberries or ½ cup dried blueberries (or 1-1/2 cups frozen fruit – for example: 1 c blueberries 1/2 c pineapple) – You can bring the frozen fruit as high as 2 cups total.
ð 1/2 cup hulled hemp seed (hemp hearts)
ð 1/2 cup raw pumpkin seed (whole if put in food processor as part of wet mix)
ð 1/2 cup raw sunflower seed (whole if put in food processor as part of wet mix)
ð 1 TBSP to ½ cup natural peanut butter (OPTIONAL)
1.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C).
2.
In 6 qt. mixer, mash bananas with whisk or mixer
blade. In food processor, create wet
mix: mix sweet potatoes, hemp seed, pumpkin seed and sunflower seed, and process a minute or two until the seeds
are broken up. Then add hydrated flaxseed meal, oil, cranberries, blueberries. Add
the 1 ¾ cup water slowly, after you have blended the other ingredients or the
water will leak out!. (It will mix in
with the thick mixture without escaping from the processor if you add it slowly
to the center of the mix.) Your 11 cup food processor will barely hold this
mix. [If you wish, you can put the sunflower seeds and the pumpkin seeds in the
dry container of your high speed blender and add seed mixture to the dry mix , but it's more work
getting the seed meal out of the blender. If you do put it in the blender, use
a chopstick or end of a wooden spoon in place of a metal spoon to remove the
seed meal -- this preserves the sharpness of the blades.]
3.
In Kitchenaid 6- quart mixing bowl, add liquids (above) to
the mashed bananas. Change to dough blade, then add dry ingredients; mix with
dough blade until well mixed.
4.
Refrigerate dough until cold (In bowls or Zip
Loc bags).
5.
Flour hands and cutting board/counter to keep
dough from sticking. For normal-size
jelly roll pan/ cookie sheet (11”X17” x 3/4”high) measure out 3 cups of
dough, form the three cups of dough into a ball with floured hands. Then form into a flattened rectangle about 4”
by 6” . It will be around an inch or more high. Sprinkle some WW pastry flour
on the rectangle.
6.
For kibble, place on oiled (coconut oil) jelly
roll pan/cookie sheet.
7.
Roll dough to about 3/8 inch inside the pan. I
use a Kitchenaid Teflon-coated rolling
pin. (They cost about 30 dollars, but you will not regret buying one. If you
use a wooden rolling pin, keep flouring the rolling pin to avoid sticking.)
Rotate the side of the pan 1/4 turn each
time and keep rolling until the dough is evenly distributed. Sprinkle flour
over dough if dough sticks to rolling pin.
8.
Cut dough in the pan with K-9 kibble cutter or a
pizza cutter or roll out dough on a board with a cookie cutter if you are
making treats. If you dust the rolled-out dough in the pan with flour, then tap
pan over cutting board, the kibble cutter will not stick in the dough. It goes very quickly this way. I use a small
sieve, to sprinkle the flour.
9.
Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven, and cool.
·
To make crunchy,
(good for healthy teeth!) place in warm oven (at lowest temperature) for
2 to 8 hours, or leave out in the air for 2-3 days to dry, or dry in a
dehydrator oven until crunchy. (I put it in the dehydrator oven at 105 degrees
F. and set it to 8- 10 hours. ) If you are making dog bone treats, leave longer in the dehydrator until
they are very hard, so they will help clean tartar off your dog's teeth.
·
This recipe can be rolled out on a cutting board
and cut into cookies for treats, or rolled out in the pan and cut into kibble
size pieces to feed as dry dog food.
·
Each recipe makes about 15 cups of dough, 5 sheets of kibble, maybe a little more. (3
cups of dough per pan.) I always make 2 batches at a time.
·
Because this process can take some time, I break
it into three parts over three days. I
put together two batches of the dry mix one day, and place it in 2 ZipLoc bags
the first day. The second day, I make
the dough (put wet and dry mix together),
place the dough in the same bags and place the bags in the refrigerator.
You may need an extra Ziploc if you
can’t get all the dough into one or two bags. Similar to a refrigerator cookie,
the kibble dough is impossible to handle/cut without refrigerating it first. The third day, I roll out the refrigerated
dough, cut it, bake it and dry it out. If I’m running out of kibble, I do the
dry mix and wet mix, combine them and
refrigerate the dough the first day, and
roll out and bake the second day.
·
This recipe is fairly flexible – you can “mix
and match” the kinds of flours if you are out of one of them. Just make sure
the flours total 12 dry cups.
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I add the following to about 6 to 7 cups of kibble:
1 TBSP to 1-1/2 TBSP Flaxseed oil (the kind without added Vit. C)
1 TBSP to 1-1/2 TBSP Hemp Oil
2 Gamma - E capsules (I use NOW brand) pierce gel capsule and squeeze out vit. E oil. (This E vitamin supplement has all 4 vit E's, not just alpha tocopherol.)
Mix the two oils and Vit. E into the kibble (with a TBSP or 2 of Natural peanut butter-- optional) into a small bowl and set aside.
In a large bowl sprinkle over about 7 cups of kibble the following:
VEGEDOG (vitamin supplement)
VEGEDOG (vitamin supplement)
VEGEYEAST (OR IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, ADD NUTRITIONAL YEAST)
Amino Acids removed from capsules: L-Carnitine, L-Taurine, L-Methionine, L-Lysine, R-Alpha Lipoic Acid
Prozyme, and NZyme -- enzyme supplement
BakPak -- probiotic supplement (or PB8 Probiotic)
Sprinkle on kibble -- 1.2 tsp. to 1 tsp each:
Barley Grass Powder
Alfalfa Powder
Wheat Grass Powder
Sprinkle on kibble -- 1.2 tsp. to 1 tsp each:
Barley Grass Powder
Alfalfa Powder
Wheat Grass Powder
Then pour oil mixture over kibble and mix until the oils are absorbed and the dry, powdered ingredients stick to the kibble.
·
Tip for purchase of jelly roll/cookie pans: May pans were getting a little old, so I went
to the store to buy a new set of four. I was very surprised to find that the
depth of most jelly roll/cookie pans sold in stores is now 1 inch rather than 3/4 inch . This may
seem like a small thing, EXCEPT with the 1 inch depth, my Kitchenaid non-stick
rolling pan handles hit the edges 1/4 inch higher, leaving the rolled out
kibble way too thick. I was able to find and order four new pans with a ¾” inch
depth, through amazon.com (Fox Run
Preferred Non-Stick 11 Inch x 17 Inch x .75 Inch Jelly Roll/Cookie Pan)
Valentina’s New Krunchy Kibble
Recipe
Revised, May 14, 2013
2 cups sweet
potatoes, baked at 350 degrees until soft (30-45 min.?) and then cooled a bit.
3 ripe bananas,
mashed
4TBSP flaxseed
meal + 3/4 cup boiling water
1-3/4 cups
water
3 TBSP coconut
oil (or olive oil)
1 cup dried cranberries,
minced (preferably no sugar or sweetened with apple juice)
1-1/2 cups frozen blueberries
1/2 cup hulled
hemp seed (hemp hearts)
1/2 cup raw
pumpkin seed (whole if put in food processor
as part of wet mix)
1/2 cup raw
sunflower seed (whole if put in food processor
as part of wet mix)
1 cup whole wheat
pastry flour
1 TBSP VEGEDOG
(Vitamin Supplement for Vegan Dogs)
1 cup rye flour
1 cup brown rice
flour
1 cup millet flour
1 tsp. salt
1 cup oat flour
2 TBSP VEGEYEAST
or nutritional yeast
1 cup garbanzo
bean flour
1/2 cup vital
wheat gluten flour
1/2 cup raw wheat
germ
1 cup buckwheat
flour
2 TBSP kelp powder
1/2 cup coconut
flour
1 cup barley flour
1.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C).
2.
In food
processor, create wet mix: mix sweet potatoes,
bananas, hydrated flaxseed meal, water, oil, cranberries, blueberries, hemp
seed, pumpkin seed and sunflower seed. Add the 1 ¾ cup water after you have
blended the other ingredients or the water will leak out!. Your 11 cup food
processor will barely hold this mix. [If you wish, you can put the sunflower seeds and the pumpkin seeds in the dry container of your high speed blender, but it's more work getting the seed meal out of the blender. If you do put it in the blender, use a wooden chopstick or end of a wooden spoon (in place of a metal utensil) to remove the seed meal -- this preserves the sharpness of the blades.]
3.
In Kitchenaid mixing bowl, add liquids (above)
then dry ingredients; mix with dough blade until well mixed.
4.
Refrigerate dough until cold (In bowls or Zip
Loc bags).
5.
Flour hands and counter to keep dough from
sticking. For normal-size jelly roll
pan/ cookie sheet, measure out 3 cups of dough, form the three cups of dough
into a ball with floured hands. Then
form into a flattened rectangle about 4” by 6” . It will be around an inch or
more high. Sprinkle some WW pastry flour on the rectangle.
6.
For kibble, place on oiled (coconut oil) jelly
roll pan/cookie sheet.
7.
Roll dough to about 3/8 inch. I use a
Kitchenaid Teflon-coated rolling pin.
(They cost about 30 dollars, but you will not regret buying one. If you use a
wooden rolling pin, keep flouring the rolling pin to avoid sticking.) Rotate
the side of the pan 1/4 turn each timeand
keep rolling until the dough is evenly distributed.
8.
Cut dough in the pan with K-9 kibble cutter or
pizza cutter. If you dust the rolled-out dough in the pan with flour, then tap pan over cutting board, the
kibble cutter will not stick in the dough.
It goes very quickly this way. I use a small sieve, to sprinkle the flour.
9.
Bake for 20 minutes.
10.
To make crunchy,
(good for healthy teeth!) place in warm oven (at lowest temperature) for
2 to 8 hours, or leave out in the air for 2-3 days to dry, or dry in a
dehydrator over until crunchy.
This recipe can be
rolled out on a cutting board and cut into cookies for treats, or rolled out in
the pan and cut into kibble size pieces to feed as dry dog food.
Each recipe makes
about 12 cups of dough, 4 sheets of
kibble. (3 cups of dough per pan.) I always make 2 batches at a time. Because
this process can take some time, I break it into three parts over three
days. I put together two batches of the
dry mix one day, and place it in 2 ZipLoc bags the first day. The second day, I make the wet mix and put
wet and dry mix together, place the
dough in the same bags and place the bags in the refrigerator. The third day, I
roll out the refrigerated dough, cut it, and bake it and dry it out. If I’m
running out of kibble, I do the dry mix and wet mix, combine them the first
day, and roll out and bake the second day.
(SEE BELOW FOR EARLIER RECIPES)
2 cups sweet potatoes, baked at 350 degrees until soft (30-45 min.?)
and then cooled a bit.
3 ripe bananas, mashed
2 TBSP flaxseed meal + 6 TBSP boiling water (soak 3 minutes) or 3
TBSP flaxseed meal + 9 TBSP boiling water
1-3/4 cups water
3 TBSP coconut oil (or olive oil)
1 cup dried cranberries, minced (preferably no sugar or sweetened
with apple juice)
1/2 cup dried blueberries or frozen blueberries
1/4 cup to 1/2 cup hulled hemp seed (hemp hearts)
2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1 TBSP VEGEDOG (Vitamin Supplement for Vegan Dogs)
1 cup rye flour
1/2 cup brown rice flour
½ tsp. salt
1 cup oat flour
2 TBSP VEGEYEAST or nutritional yeast
1/2 to 1 cup garbanzo bean flour
1/2 cup vital wheat gluten flour
1/2 cup raw wheat germ
1 cup buckwheat flour
2 TBSP kelp powder
1/2 cup coconut flour
1/2 cup barley flour
1/2 cup raw pumpkin seed meal (pumpkin seed ground in blender)
1/2 cup raw sunflower seed meal (sunflower seed, ground in blender)
1.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C).
2.
In food
processor, mix sweet potatoes, bananas,
hydrated flaxseed meal, water, oil, cranberries, blueberries, and hemp seed.
3.
In mixing bowl, add liquids (above) then dry
ingredients; mix with dough blade until well mixed.
4.
Refrigerate dough until cold.
5.
Flour hands and counter to keep dough from
sticking. For normal-size jelly roll pan/
cookie sheet, measure out 3 cups of dough, form the three cups of dough into a
ball with floured hands. Then form into
a flattened rectangle about 4” by 6” . It will be around an inch high. Sprinkle
some WW pastry flour on the rectangle.
6.
For kibble, place on oiled (coconut oil) jelly
roll pan/cookie sheet.
7.
Roll dough to about 3/8 inch. I use a
Kitchenaid Teflon-coated rolling pin.
(They cost about 30 dollars, but you will not regret buying one. If you use a
wooden rolling pin, keep flouring the rolling pin to avoid sticking.) Rotate
the side of the pan and keep rolling until the dough is evenly distributed.
8.
Cut dough in the pan with K-9 kibble cutter or
pizza cutter. If you dust the rolled-out dough in the pan with flour, the kibble cutter will not stick
in the dough. It goes very quickly this
way. I use a small sieve, sprinkle the
9.
Bake for 20 minutes.
10.
To make crunchy,
(good for healthy teeth!) place in warm oven (at lowest temperature) for
2 to 6 hours, or leave out in the air for 2-3 days to dry.
This recipe can be rolled out on a cutting board and cut into cookies
for treats, or rolled out in the pan and cut into kibble size pieces to feed as
dry dog food.
Each recipe makes about 11 cups of dough. This is about 1 cup short of 4 sheets of
kibble. (3 cups of dough per pan.) I’m working on modifying the recipe so it
makes exactly 4 pans of dough. (Stay tuned!)
I always make 2 batches at a time. Because this process can take some
time, I break it into three parts over three days. I put together two batches of the dry mix one
day, and place it in 2 ZipLoc bags the first day. The second day, I make the wet mix and put wet
and dry mix together, place the dough in
the same bags and place the bags in the refrigerator. The third day, I roll out
the refrigerated dough, cut it, and bake it and dry it out.
Older recipe version follows.
Valentina's Krunchy Kibble
2 cups sweet potatoes, baked at 350 degrees until soft (30-45 min.?)
2 ripe bananas, mashed
2 TBSP flaxseed meal + 6 TBSP boiling water (soak 3 minutes) or 3
TBSP flaxseed meal + 9 TBSP boiling water
1-3/4 cups water
3 TBSP coconut oil (or olive oil)
1 cup dried cranberries, minced (or dried blueberries or dried
cherries) (preferably no sugar or
sweetened with apple juice)
sweetened with apple juice)
2-1/2 cups whole wheat flour OR whole wheat pastry flour
1 TBSP VEGEDOG (Vitamin Supplement for Vegan Dogs)
1 cup rye flour
1/2 cup brown rice flour
½ tsp. salt
1/2 cup oat flour
2 TBSP VEGEYEAST or nutritional yeast
1/4 cup garbanzo bean flour
1/4 to 1/2 cup vital wheat gluten flour
1/4 cup to 1/2 cup hulled hemp seed (hemp hearts)
1.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C).
2.
In food
processor, mix sweet potatoes, bananas,
hydrated flaxseed meal, water, oil, cranberries, and hemp seed.
3.
In mixing bowl, add liquids (above) then dry
ingredients; mix first with mixing blade, then switch to dough blade until well
mixed.
4.
Flour hands and counter to keep dough from
sticking. Knead dough by folding it on itself until elastic, as if making a pie
crust.
5.
Roll dough to about 3/8 inch.
6.
After placing dough on cookie sheets, poke with
a fork to prevent voids, unless using cookie cutters,(before baking)
7.
Bake for 20 minutes.
8.
To make crunchy,
(good for healthy teeth!) place in warm oven (at lowest temperature) for
2 to 4 hours, or leave out in the air for 2-3 days to dry.
Makes ….A LOT!!!
This recipe can be cut into cookies for treats, or cut into
kibble size pieces and fed as kibble.
________________________________________________________________________________
I add the following to about 6 to 7 cups of kibble:
1 TBSP to 1-1/2 TBSP Flaxseed oil (the kind without added Vit. C)
1 TBSP to 1-1/2 TBSP Hemp Oil
2 Gamma - E capsules (I use NOW brand) pierce gel capsule and squeeze out vit. E oil. (This E vitamin supplement has all 4 vit E's, not just alpha tocopherol.)
Mix the two oils and Vit. E into the kibble (with a TBSP or 2 of Natural peanut butter-- optional) into a small bowl and set aside.
In a large bowl sprinkle over about 7 cups of kibble the following:
VEGEDOG (vitamin supplement)
VEGEDOG (vitamin supplement)
VEGEYEAST (OR IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, ADD NUTRITIONAL YEAST)
Amino Acids removed from capsules: L-Carnitine, L-Taurine, L-Methionine, L-Lysine, R-Alpha Lipoic Acid
Prozyme, and NZyme -- enzyme supplement
BakPak -- probiotic supplement (or PB8 Probiotic)
Sprinkle on kibble -- 1.2 tsp. to 1 tsp each:
Barley Grass Powder
Alfalfa Powder
Wheat Grass Powder
Sprinkle on kibble -- 1.2 tsp. to 1 tsp each:
Barley Grass Powder
Alfalfa Powder
Wheat Grass Powder
Then pour oil mixture over kibble and mix until the oils are absorbed and the dry, powdered ingredients stick to the kibble.
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