Chicken is a big favorite with our dogs so I decided to devise a chicken-based dog treat for this week’s recipe. The preparation is very easy since you can use leftover chicken and, start to finish, you can complete with treats in less than an hour.
Before you get started, preheat your oven to 350 degrees and grease two cookie sheets.
The ingredients list is nice and short. You can use whatever cooked chicken you have on hand: white or dark meat. You can even slow cook the chicken and make the chicken broth all in one step if you like.
Start mixing the ingredients and slowly, slowly add a teaspoon of broth at a time until you have dough the right consistency to knead. (The amount of broth you’ll need to add will vary by the moistness of the chicken.) The dough should be heavy but shouldn’t be too dry (that means you need more broth) or too sticky (that means you need more flour).
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If you use a mini-glass, just flip it over and press out the biscuits, giving each a little twist as you press down. Make your impressions then pull up the dough around the biscuits; these are now ready to go on a greased cookie sheet. Take the scraps of dough, reroll, and cut out some more biscuits.
I decided to get fancy with some of the biscuits; I’d recently seen an article in Martha Stewart Living magazine showing how to make a paw print on the top of the biscuits. Just indent your index finger to make the large paw pad then use your pinky finger to make four tiny paw pad indentations above it. It looked so easy when Martha did it…but my biscuits were too small so I was only able to add three paw pads!
Just pop your cookie sheets in the oven for half an hour, bake at 350 degrees, then take them out and allow them to cool completely before refrigerating the treats. Our dogs loved these treats!