Hey everyone it's Dr. Dody holistic veterinarian with over 30 years of experience
back again with another homemade recipe video today we will be making a turkey cat food pate
one of my main goals with these videos is to show you just how easy and economical
it is to make your own cat food your pet will be healthier when you get them off of processed food
and a healthier cat translates into fewer veterinary visits
it's a win-win and it feels so great to nurture my pet family with food I made not
out of a can with mystery gravy with ingredients I can't even recognize see you when we get back
I want to make enough food for the rest of the week so I'm going to make a triple batch
you can refer to recipe options in the holistic vet blend cookbook downloadable from our website
let's go over today's recipe we have 3 pounds of turkey this is 85
lean and I got 3 pounds for 9.99 buying a bulk saves you so much you could even make Ina Gardens
turkey meatloaf with the rest six eggs a complete protein and a very highly available usable protein
for the body four ounces of diced spinach again this is optional um just adding some greens in
there you could also add some parsley which is a nice diuretic and just give some healthy fiber
and phytonutrients six tablespoons of coconut oil that i'm going to use to saute the meat
and two and a half cups of bone broth um i usually roast a chicken once a week so
then I'll take the bones and the leftovers and I'll make bone broth in my instant pot in two
hours time and then I'll save it for recipes and for making my pet food bone broth is great for
joint health and digestion so you can watch another video we'll make on that one as well
lastly we have our one and a half teaspoons of our omega-3s again if you refer to the cookbook
there's numerous options for omega-3s for pets that are really finicky some of them like sardines
so you could add a little sardine as well you could also add your omega-3s when you serve
the food as well but I like to add it all in last after the recipe is cooled and then lastly we have
our premix which is a secret sauce and I will go over the ingredients with you the premix completes
the recipe and contains calcium dehydrated grass-fed beef organ meat heart liver and kidney
taurine vitamins and trace minerals to balance the recipe so let's get started with our recipe I'm
gonna go ahead and use my coconut oil I already melted it and i'm going to just put it in I'm
using a large stock pot because at the end instead of transferring to a food processor to blenderize
it I like to make a pate for my kitties I won't have to do an extra transfer step I can just use
the handheld blender and mix it up right in here an option is to use you know just a saute pan and
then go ahead and transfer it to a food processor or a blender to make it a soft consistency and
mix it mix everything in really well okay so I've already added my coconut oil it's melted and I'm
going to go ahead and add the turkey I like to get this going and I'm gonna go ahead and throw
my spinach in with that because it'll just wilt in and cook right in there so this is gonna take
about six eight minutes to get almost done and I'm going to go ahead and add these eggs
as it finishes and mix those in as well again eggs are a really great quality protein good
source of complete protein for kitties so I'm going to wait and add those in just a bit
okay so towards the end of our saute we added in the eggs and now the recipe is done cooking
I'm gonna go ahead and add my chilled water or broth so it'll cool it right down and
then I can mix it right away so here we go add that in I'm gonna get my little puree
a little handheld smart stick Cuisinart immersion blender these are really great tools
here's my omega-3s I'm going to go ahead and add in
and my premix the secret sauce
so you can see it's got quite a liquid consistency but as it cools it's going
to solidify and this is actually the pate when it how thick it when you refrigerate it
so it does thicken up nicely I store the recipe in a large tub
it's great that there's 20 to 30 less cans going to the landfill and less packaging and trash and
no icky gravy to contend with did I even mention that no kibble should ever cross your cat's
lips anyway so I'm not even gonna mention that here's the food and it's finished and here's how
I store it I'm gonna go ahead and put it in the refrigerator and it will solidify into a nice pate
and firm up nicely this is a total of five pounds of food and uh it's gonna go a long way
you