The truth is homemade dog treats are a whole lot healthier, cheaper and tastier than the treats you buy in pet shops. Pork scratchings are a great dog treat. So easy to make, no cooking skills required and cheap as chips. I buy the pork rind from Morrisons supermarket for about 50p – 80p a pack, best times to find them at my store is Saturdays. But if you know a nice butcher and are friendly then you could get it for free.
I made this last week and wasn’t sure how the dogs would like it but after giving a piece to my own dog I knew I was onto a winner.
Right, let’s do this thing!
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One packet of pork belly
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Place pork belly in oven tray and preheat oven to 180c. Make sure the skin is well scored otherwise the skin will split from the fat underneath.
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After about 45 mins take it out the oven and leave to cool
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Leave to cook and break up into little pieces!
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Tasty homemade dog treat pork scratchings
Wow how great I have eaten loads of picks myself!!! lol
so good please put up some more suggestions for my fussy Yorkies that hate processed dog food no wonder????
Keep up the good work!!!
Thanks Shirley!
Hope to get a few more up soon!
Now I know what to do with the pork rind I have had hanging around in the freezer. We are getting a Spanish galgo on Thursday so stocking up on treats. The sardine oatcakes went down well with our greyhound yesterday, today I’m making scratchings, tomorrow will be dried liver and liver cake, tuna loaf the day after 🙂 Thank you for all the recipes, keep up the good work
Thanks Rowena! Good luck with this recipe, it’s the hardest one for me to get right. So let me know how you get on.
Hi again, I followed your recipe as written but turned the temperature up on the oven, which worked a treat, ahem ‘scuse the pun! Incidentally, as the oven was on, I whacked the tuna loaf in at the same time and it passed the taste test with flying colours… 3 times 😉
I’m glad to hear it worked out! 🙂
Mmm trying another recipe of yours you’ve got me in the buzz 🙂
Pssst – picked up loads of sausage meat from the reduced section, any ideas if I can do anything with that? Sausage cake?? lol
Well, I hope you have more luck than I have. I’m still trying to get it right.
Great news about pup. My canine dietician is currently experimenting with large teething biccies for pups…very hard ones!
Love it! I will be watching and waiting……
Gotta say though – love your recipes! Just made banana bombs and sardine oatcakes, some for now and some for the freezer. Now have a 9 week old goldendoodle puppy to go with Lola, our big goldendoodle, so it’s treats, treats and more treats – for training purposes, obviously. No fat dogs here!!
Yes and I scored it a bit more. I am baffled! Dogs still liked it but I had to cut it with scissors as it was chewy and bendy even when cool.
lol, oh dear! I’ll buy some again later and check I got the recipe right.
Jamie, mine aren’t crispy after 45 mins at 180°. Still cooking 30 mins later! Hope they get crispy soon. Higher temperature might work better, perhaps?
Hi Sue! Is the Pork Belly scored?
Hi Jamie
I made this today and my 2 dogs loved them it was so easy to make as well
Thanks C! As treats go this is one of the least popular ones but I think it’s great as it’s easy to get, cheap to buy and simple to make!
Hiya Jamie sorry meant to ask can this be frozen ?
yes, just freeze as soon as it cools and it should last a long time!
I took the scratchings that I made while doing this recipe to the dogs I was walking today. Oh boy, did they love it, went down a storm!