As a follow up to last weeks ThermoFun Member Spotlight Doggy Treats recipe, Tania is sharing the meatloaf recipe that she also gives her dog (Honey). I really think I want to be Tania’s dog!!! Talk about live like a Queen! 🙂
Tania is a ThermoFun Club Member. This recipe sounds too delicious and I’m not even a dog!!
Here is Tania’s little spiel about her meatloaf:
“I’ve been making variations of this meatloaf for my various dogs for years. Mostly any vegetable apart from garlic and onion can be used. Good time to use any bits and pieces in the vegetable crisper or even left over cooked veg from a previous meal. Chicken or beef mince can be substituted; even adding some chopped up chicken livers is good. I use whatever is on sale or needing to clear out of the fridge/freezer. You can add supplements such as fish oil or chopped up nori sheets to this mix. The 3 boiled eggs lined in the middle are of course totally optional. I spotted someone online using them this way and thought it would make an extra special treat for Honey. Honey is a small/medium dog and she gets 8 meals from this meatloaf along with some dry food to supplement. Use within the week refrigerated or suitable to freeze in portion slices“.
ThermoFun – Member Spotlight – Doggy Meatloaf
Ingredients
- 60g parmesan cheese, cubed
- 1 small zucchini, quartered
- 1 small carrot, quartered
- 1 medium potato, quartered
- handful fresh parsley
- 900g boiling water from kettle
- 100g rice
- 3 eggs, washed (for boiling, optional)
- 500g turkey mince
- 60g tomato paste
- ½ cup frozen peas
- 2 eggs extra
- 1500g boiling water from kettle (extra)
Instructions
- Place parmesan in TM bowl and grate 5 sec / speed 9. Set aside.
- Place zucchini, carrot, potato and parsley in TM bowl and chop 3 sec / speed 7. Set aside.
- Pour 900g boiling water into TM bowl.
- Place simmering basket on TM lid and weigh 100g rice. Rinse rice in basket under tap. Place basket back in TM bowl and sit 3 whole eggs on top of the rice (if you are using, make sure eggs are washed well first).
- Cook 14 mins / 100°C / speed 4.
- Dispose of remaining water from TM bowl and add steamed rice, vegetable mix, turkey mince, tomato paste, parmesan, frozen peas, crack in 2 eggs and combine 20 sec / speed 5 / Reverse.
Use the TM spatula through the MC hole as an aid to mix if required. - Press half the mixture into a lined loaf tin that fits inside the base of the Varoma. Lay the peeled boiled eggs (if using), along the middle and press the remaining mixture on top.
- Cover with foil or a piece of baking paper.
- Poor 1500g boiling water in TM bowl.
- Place meatloaf in bottom Varoma dish and place assembled Varoma on top of TM lid and steam 60 mins / Varoma / speed 4.
Notes
For this recipe you will need a loaf pan that fits inside your varoma.
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I am making this for the second time today! My fur boys absolutely loved this when I made it the first time!! It’s going to be a regular in our household! Thankyou
oh your fur boys are very lucky boys! 🙂
My SharPei has pancreatitis and needs a specialised diet. I’ll definitely give this a try using homemade chicken breast mince (only the best).
I love this recipe but I do make a few changes. I do not add the cheese, eggs or tomato paste into the mixture. And I only use 2 boiled eggs (cooked with he rice)! And our fur baby loves it! Slice in into daily serves and this is great!
Thanks Sue – I love to spoil my fur baby too! 🙂
Mine loved it! I substituted the turkey for liver since Consuelo is a bit anemic. It took much longer to cook, but definitely going to repeat it!
I have a 14yo Jack Russell, can you suggest portion sizes of the finished product please
Hi Megan, I asked Tania and she said: “I have a Cavoodle. I cut the meatloaf into 2-3cm thick slices, so get approx 8-10 slices. I tend to freeze half of them and keep the rest in the fridge, giving her one slice cut up in the evening along with a cup of her nutritionally balanced dry food in the morning. Hope this helps. Every dog is different though.
Ty look s like a good basic recipe, you know easy to play around with it, add a little of this
and alittle of that and I can use a cheaper cut of meat and mince it myself…ty again
I’ve just made this for my fussy cavoodle as the one food she did like she doesn’t like anymore !
Seems like a success she gobbled it all up
Great to hear Sam! 🙂