January 1, 2012

Organic Wheat-Free Dog Treats


Ingredients:


  • 1 organic medium sweet potato


  • ½ cup organic peanut butter


  • ½ cup cooking liquid from sweet potato


  • 1 cup organic brown rice flour


  • 1 cup organic oat flour


  • 2 teaspoons baking powder


  • Directions:

    Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Peel the sweet potato and cut into ½ inch pieces. In a pan filled with 2 cups waters, boil the sweet potatoes until soft. Reserve the cooking liquid and set aside.

    In a large bowl mash the sweet potatoes. Then add ½ cup of the cooking liquid, and ½ cup peanut butter. Mix until well blended.

    Next mix together the baking powder, brown rice flour, and oat flour in a small bowl. Then add to the sweet potato mixture, and mix until the dough comes together.

    Lightly flour your work surface with either brown rice flour or the oat flour. Roll the dough out about ¼ inch thick. Cut into shapes with a cookie cutter. Place the treats on a cookie sheet- It’s ok to have the treats close together they won’t stick to each other.

    Bake the treats for 20-30 minutes until golden brown or slightly hard. The treats will crisp as they cool.

    http://www.organicsoul.com/organic-wheat-free-dog-treats/


    ** To make your own oat flour or brown rice flour...

    Measure 1 cup of rolled oats  or  brown rice into a blender or food-processor. (I use a coffee grinder).

    Blend the oats/rice on the "pulse" setting until the oats/rice are ground into a powderlike consistency. Depending on the speed and power of your blender, this process should take 60 seconds or less.

    Stop the blender and stir the flour to ensure that all the oats/rice have been finely ground.

    One cup of rolled oats will yield approximately 1 cup of oat flour. Your yield may be slightly higher with steel-cut oats, which are larger than rolled oats