When visiting your favourite dog-friendly pub it’s easy to order snacks for humans behind the bar, but quite often these snacks are not safe for dogs. These recipes are great alternatives that won’t leave your pooch missing out.
Dehydrated Vegetable Dog Treats
Instead of a packet of Walkers, these veggie treats have a crunch that makes them the perfect substitute for your pooch. If you don’t have a dehydrator or aren’t sure you’re ready to commit to one, you can use your oven on the lowest setting for similar results.
No-Bake Peanut Butter Flaxseed Bites
Whilst you enjoy a pack of salted peanuts, your pooch can chow down on these simple yet tasty peanut butter treats.
Crunchy Pretzel
These crunchy pretzel dog treats are fantastic whether you’re just at the pub for a quick catch up with friends, trying to keep your dog occupied during the pub quiz, or just want to try your hand at making something a little extra for your pup.
Mini Pub Lunch Burgers
You pooch can now tuck into their own pub lunch with these mini burger treats that are packed with nutritious, dog-safe ingredients.
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Homemade Cheddar and Beef Dog Treats
- Prep Time: 30
- Cook Time: 20
- Total Time: 50
- Yield: Varies
- Category: Special Occasion
Ingredients
- 1 cup nonfat yogurt (if your dog is lactose intolerant, substitute pureed pumpkin)
- 2 no-sodium stock cubes
- 1 tbsp turmeric
- 2 tbsp olive oil (leave this out if your dog can’t tolerate fat)
- 1 cup finely shredded low-fat cheese (if your dog is lactose intolerant, substitute ¼ cup nutritional yeast)
- 2 cups rolled oat flour (you can make this at home by pulverizing rolled oats in your food processor)
- 2 cups whole wheat flour (you can substitute with any dog-friendly gluten-free flour like coconut or tapioca)
- 2 eggs
Decoration
- Natural food colouring
- Sesame seeds for hamburger buns
- OPTIONAL: gloves to protect your hands from food colouring
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180º
In a stand mixer, set the yogurt, olive oil, bouillon cubes, and turmeric to stir.
Once everything is fully combined and the bouillon has fully dissolved, add the finely grated cheese and stir.
Add the flour a cup at a time and continue mixing, adding the eggs when the mixture starts to look dry (about halfway through the flour)
Once all the flour is well incorporated, divide the dough into three parts, one large and two smaller, into separate bowls.
Next, we will mix in the food colouring. You may want gloves at this point, the red is the most staining of the three colours.
The largest portion will be used for the buns so we will add yellow food colouring a bit at a time, working it in your hands until evenly incorporated.
The smaller two will be the green for lettuce and the red for the meat. The green will be easy to color and the red will take the most food coloring to get to the right shade. You may need to add a touch of the green or yellow to the red at some point to darken your shade of red and not wind up hot pink.
Keep all the doughs covered or pop into Ziploc bags to keep the dough from drying out. The covered dough can last up to a week in the fridge.
For the Hamburgers
You will need one small circle cutter to create these cute little sliders. You hamburgers will be a little tall at first, but you can gently squish the layers together to get the dimensions you want and to ensure they don’t fall apart.
For the buns, you will want two yellow circles, one thick for the fluffy top bun and one thinner for the bottom bun.
Make your red meaty layer on the thicker side. We mixed in a little flakey dehydrated dog treat to change up the texture a bit.
For the lettuce, you can pinch off and hand form a very thin layer of green dough.
Once you’ve sandwiched your layers together, gently squeeze and shape the hamburger until you’re happy with the shape.
Dab a little yogurt or egg wash onto the top bun then dip into a bowl of sesame seeds for a fancy sesame seed bun.
Paint with egg wash if you prefer a shiny finished product.
Bake your finished treats on parchment paper for about 20 minutes or until just starting to get a little color on your buns and taco shells.
Cool and serve!
If yours skill don’t lie within the baking department, then you can always see if your local dog-friendly pub has dog treats behind the bar. Rover is sniffing out the Uk’s dog-friendliest Pub. Our mission is to encourage pubs across the country to welcome more customers with both two legs and four.
There is still time to vote in the 2019 Rover Dog-friendly Pub Awards! If you know a pub that stands out from the crowd when it comes to welcoming our four-legged friends, make sure you show your support and give them your vote at pubs.rover.com.