Valentina’s Wheat -Free Kibble Recipe
Revised August 22, 2014
DRY
MIX:
1 ½ cups
whole (brown) spelt flour
4 TBSP
VEGEDOG (Vitamin Supplement for Vegan Dogs) (www.vegedog.com)
2 cups
rye flour
1 cup
brown rice flour
1 cup
millet flour
1 tsp sea
salt (iodized)
2 cups
oat flour
4 TBSP
VEGEYEAST (Yeast for Vegan dogs – to maintain proper PH balance) (www.vegedog.com)
4 TBSP nutritional
yeast
1 cup
garbanzo flour
½ cup
raw oat bran
1 cup
buckwheat flour
½ cup
quinoa flour
½ cup hemp protein (NUTIVA, Amazon)
1½ tsp
kelp powder
½ cup
coconut flour
1 cup
barley flour
1/3 cup
pea protein or 1 scoop (33mg.) (Scoop inside NOW Brand – Amazon, Natural
Grocer)
WET
MIX:
2 cups
sweet potatoes (orange inside) (baked at 300 – 325 degrees, appr. 45 minutes, then cool)
3 large
or 4 small ripe bananas [or 2 cups mashed peas, or 2 cups mashed lentils/black
beans]
4 TBSP
flaxseed meal + ¾ cup boiling water (Wait 2 minutes)
1 ¾ cups
water
3 - 6
TBSP coconut oil
1 cup
dried cranberries (preferably no sugar, or sweetened with apple juice)
1 ½ cups
frozen blueberries (or ½ cup dried blueberries) or mix blueberries and
pineapple
½ cup
hulled hemp seed (hemp hearts) NUTIVA (Amazon) or Hemp Hearts brand
½ cup raw pumpkin seed (whole, if added to Wet
Mix, ground, if added to dry mix.)
½ cup raw
sunflower seed (whole, if added to Wet Mix, ground, if added to dry mix.)
1 TBSP
to ½ cup almond butter (can substitute natural peanut butter)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1.
Assemble dry mix in advance. (Store in Ziploc bag or covered bowl.)
2.
In food processor, create wet mix. Mix sweet potatoes, bananas,
hemp seed, pumpkin seed, sunflower seed, and process a minute or two until
seeds are broken up. Add hydrated flaxseed meal, oil, cranberries, and
blueberries. Process intermittently as you add ingredients. Add the 1 ¾ cups
water, gradually, after you have blended the other ingredients, or the water
will leak out! (If this is too difficult the water can be added to the wet mix
in the mixer, and mixed for a while until blended into the wet mix.) Your 11
cup food processor will barely hold this. [If you wish, to reduce the volume in
the food processor, you can grind the
seeds in a high speed blender – hemp,
pumpkin, sunflower, and put them in the dry mix. Use a chopstick or end of a wooden
spoon to remove the ground seeds to preserve the sharpness of the blades in the
blender or processor.] If your processor will not hold all of the wet mix,
divide the ingredients of the wet mix into two parts, process.
3.
In Kitchenaid 6-quart mixing bowl, add wet mix first, then
gradually add dry mix (on Number 2, no higher) using the dough blade until well
mixed. (It is very important to start with the wet mix in the mixing bowl and
then gradually add the dry mix to the wet mix.)
4.
Refrigerate the dough until cold. ( I put it in Zip Loc bags.)
5.
When dough is very cold,
Preheat oven to 300 or 325 degrees F.
6.
Flour hands (buckwheat or spelt or oat) and surface to keep from
sticking. For normal size jelly roll pan/ cookie sheet (11” X 17”) measure out 3 cups of dough. Put the
rest of the dough back in the refrigerator. Form dough into flattened rectangle about 4” X
6” and sprinkle some flour on the rectangle.
7.
For kibble, place on oiled (coconut oil) jelly roll pan / cookie
sheet.
8.
Roll dough as evenly as possible to about 3/8 inch thick. I use a
Kitchenaid non-stick rolling pin. (They cost about 30 dollars, but you will not
regret buying one. Bed, Bath and Beyond sells another brand.) If you use a wooden rolling pin you will want
to keep flouring the rolling pin to avoid sticking.) Rotate the side of the pan
¼ turn each time and keep rolling until the dough is evenly distributed.
Sprinkle and rub flour over dough to avoid sticking. Shake excess off dough.
9.
Cut dough in pan with a K9 Kibble Cutter (www.fantes.com go to cookie cutters, then
dog-related cutters), or with a pizza cutter. Or, if you are making cookie
cutter treats, roll out dough on surface, cut with cookie cutter, and then
place on pan. If you dust the rolled-out dough (I use a small sieve.) in the
pan with flour, tap the pan over cutting board or surface to remove excess
flour.
10. Bake for 20 minutes at
300 or 325 degrees.
·
To make crunchy (good for healthy teeth!) place in a warm oven at
lowest temperature for 2 or more hours. OR, dry in a dehydrator oven at 105
degrees for 6 – 8 hours until crunchy, OR leave out to air dry for 2 or 3 days
(Cover with waxed paper to avoid mold.)
·
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-sized pieces
for dry dog food.
·
Each recipe makes over 18 cups of dough, 5 to 6 sheets o kibble ( 3
cups per pan). I always make 2 batches at a time, and the kibble lasts for 2
weeks. (This will vary depending on what
you feed your dog in addition to the kibble.) Valentina love sooo many
vegetables – broccoli (raw and cooked) cabbage (raw and cooked), lentils, brown
rice, beans (black, garbanzo, etc.) , cooked squash, greens broken up in food
processer, green beans, etc. (Check out
Vegan Heartland for suggestions to feed your dog.)
·
Because this whole process takes time, I usually do this over three
days (unless I’m in a hurry.) I do the
dry mix the first day, the wet mix and the dough the second day, and the baking
and dehydrating the third day. If I’m
running out of kibble, I do it all in a day!
·
This dough is impossible to handle unless it is cold.
·
I usually buy bulk flour from Natural Grocer / Vitamin Cottage because
of the reasonable price, accessibility and convenient bulk packaging. I store
the open bags of the flour in the plastic jars in which Costco nuts are sold.
Similar containers can be purchased at Walmart.
