Homemade cat food
Salmon & Egg-White Lean Bites
Light, high-protein baked bites made with cooked salmon and egg white — a lean training or reward treat.
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Time
- 30 min
- Makes
- About 20 small bites
🧺 Ingredients
- 100 g cooked salmon, skin and bones removed
- 2 egg whites
- 1 tbsp plain cooked pumpkin purée to bind
👩🍳 Method
- Preheat the oven to 170°C (340°F) and line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Flake the cooked salmon carefully, checking thoroughly for any small bones.
- Mash the salmon with the pumpkin purée, then fold in the egg whites to make a soft paste.
- Drop pea-sized dots of the mixture onto the tray, spacing them apart.
- Bake for about 12–15 minutes until set and lightly firm, then cool completely.
- Offer one or two as a treat and refrigerate the rest.
Nutrition: Salmon supplies omega-3 fatty acids for skin and coat while egg white adds pure, low-fat protein, making these a lean reward that is easy to portion for training without piling on calories.
📝 Notes
Always cook eggs and fish fully for cats — never raw — and check salmon meticulously for bones. These are treats, so keep them to under 10% of daily calories. Store in the fridge for up to 3 days or freeze for up to a month.
⚕️ Before you cook for your cat
- Homemade food must be balanced. Cats need taurine, and deficiency causes heart and eye disease.
- Treat recipes are supplements to a complete diet, not a replacement for it.
- Check any new ingredient against the toxic-foods list, and ask your vet before switching diets.