Hey, fellow pet lovers!
Today’s post is a simple recipe to make your very own dehydrated pork treats.
This is a favourite in our household and the youngest out of the bunch, Lily loves them!!!
Let’s get started and learn how to make your furry friend some delicious treats that they will be sure to love!!
What you will need?
- A chopping board.
- A sharp knife.
- Gloves if you mind getting your hands dirty.
- A dehydrator.
- A reusable tub or jar to place your finished treats in.
- Scales (None essential).
- A kilo or more of Raw pork tongue or any pork, but we like to use tongue.
You can use however much pork you want or however much you can fit in your dehydrator. Just remember that the treats will decrease in size to about 1/3rd of their original weight.
Now we have everything we need, it is time to start making our treats. I must say out of all the treats I have made my girls, these have to be their favourite!!
Step One, Sort out your Dehydrator and Trays
Get everything ready!
If you have followed one of my treat recipes before then you will already know that the first step is to sort out your dehydrator and trays, so that once you cut up your pork into even strips, you can easily stick everything on your trays without having to wash your hands in between.
Step Two, Prepare the pork
Once we have our raw pork and have sorted our dehydrator trays, we need to prepare it for going onto our dehydrator trays. Get a sharp knife, stick your pork on your chopping board and slice it as evenly as possible.
This will ensure your treats dry out at an even pace and are all finished at the same time.
Step Three, Place your sliced pork onto your dehydrator trays
Once your pork has been evenly sliced and has been placed on your trays, it’s ready for the dehydrator.
Step Four, Transport Pork to the Dehydrator
Place all your sliced pork into the dehydrator on its highest setting. We have an Excalibur nine-tray dehydrator and it has a set timer on so we can choose to leave it on for 24 hours or longer.
However, don’t worry if your dehydrator doesn’t have a timer just keep checking on your treats every six hours or so, they will definitely take at least 16 hours if not longer.
Step Five, Put your finished Pork Treats in an airtight tub
We have always kept our pork tongue treats in the freezer as they can be a bit fatty and leaving them out might result in the fat going rancid. So to be safe we just stick them in the freezer and grab them when we need them.
Well, how simple was that?
I am sure your furry friends will love these treats!!
A neat little hack if you have a fussy pet like we do, is to grate some of your dehydrated pork treats into your pet’s food if they turn their nose up, this always works for us.
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