Chicken Chips Dog Treat
I’m not a big fan of potato chips or any kind of chips or fries for that matter. And I make no apologies for showing my disinterest. Then one day DeDe ate a bag of potato chips at my front balcony while waiting for me to get ready for our retail therapy. During the wait, DeDe gave some chips to my severely-junk-food-deprived dogs. Apparently, they munched like there was no tomorrow.
Of course, I was not too pleased when I caught them in the act. I shot DeDe a deadly look. “What!” She then returned me a look just as deadly as mine. “Don’t be so rigid. Those few won’t kill them. And by the way, they’re organic chips!”
I could careless if they were organic. It is the process that makes me sick to my stomach. On the other hand, watching how my dogs enjoy those moments of sinful indulgence makes me feel like an uptight mommy. That’s when it got me thinking of a healthy alternative—Chicken Chips Dog Treat without going through the deep frying process.
Ingredients:
- 2 medium-sized chicken breasts, cooked
- 1 clove garlic
- ½ cup chicken broth
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- ½ cup cornmeal
Methods:
- Put chicken and garlic in a food processor and puree it for 30 seconds.
- Add chicken broth and puree for 10 sec or until smooth.
- Pour the puree and the remaining ingredients into a salad bowl.
- Mix well until it’s not gluey anymore.
- Wrap the mixture with food wrap and chill it thoroughly.
- Once chilled, cut it into thin slices.
- Preheat oven at 350°F.
- Bake chips on lightly greased baking sheet for 25 – 40 minutes, turning halfway through baking time.
- Chips will harden as they cool and serve.
Special Notes:
To get a natural sweetest of chicken broth, use free range brown chicken and boil the chicken breast in filtered water. Remember to discard the top layer of foamy “oil” from the broth before adding it to the puree.
This is an excellent finger-food treat for dog parties. Make sure you double or quadruple the ingredient amount if you are catering for a bigger group. Believe me, this one goes out super fast. Important tip, don’t serve all at one go. Otherwise, those poor pocketbook dogs won’t get any chance to eat them with those big gluttonous dogs around.
As always, use organic ingredients if possible.
Dec 22nd 2007
10:24 PM
This may sound like a silly question. Do I boil preskinned chicken breast or should they have the skin on it? I love your site. I have 7 dogs!
Dec 22nd 2007
10:29 PM
Hello Ginger,
As to your question, I personally like to deskin all poultry meat—with a couple exceptions—before I boil them. There is no nutritional value in the skin except fats (mostly unhealthy fats if I may say so.) What the fats give is a layer of oil to the broth which many would remove it (additional work so why bother to begin with!)
However, I must say that the “chicken-skin-broth” does make a good broth for cooking Chicken Rice. Just don’t eat too often, ok?
So you see, Ginger, your question is never too silly to ask. It all depends what you want to do with the broth afterwards.
Thank you for visiting!
Dec 5th 2009
2:11 AM
Made this recipe using canned tuna instead of chix, used the tuna “juice/water” from the can instead of water. Mdog Loved them!!