Homemade cat food
Chicken Liver Training Crumbs
Baked chicken-liver bites crumbled small enough to reward tricks and vet handling — an intensely meaty treat cats will work hard for.
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Time
- 35 min
- Makes
- About 40 tiny crumbs
🧺 Ingredients
- 80 g fresh chicken livers, rinsed and patted dry
- 1 tbsp plain cooked pumpkin or sweet potato, to bind
- 1 tbsp oat flour or plain wholemeal flour
👩🍳 Method
- Heat the oven to 170°C (fan 150°C) and line a small tray.
- Blitz or finely chop the raw livers to a smooth paste, then mix in the pumpkin and flour.
- Spread the mixture about 5 mm thick on the tray.
- Bake for 18–22 minutes until firm and cooked right through — liver must never be served raw or pink.
- Cool fully, then break or cut into pea-sized crumbs.
- Keep in the fridge and use within three days, or freeze in small batches.
Nutrition: Chicken liver is exceptionally palatable and packed with highly available iron, protein and vitamin A, which makes these crumbs a powerful, low-calorie-per-piece reward for clicker training, nail trims and stress-free carrier practice.
📝 Notes
Liver is very rich in vitamin A, so treat these as an occasional training reward, not a daily food — a few crumbs a day is plenty. Too much liver over time can cause vitamin A toxicity, so keep portions genuinely small.
⚕️ 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.