Chicken for Dogs – Harvest Chicken Soup
I absolutely LOVE the flavours of fall.
It seems like so many of my favourite foods are plentiful. I love all the fantastic fall colours and rich spicy foods served piping hot. I already admitted that I have a huge love of soup. I was so excited to combine some tasty fall flavours and soup ‘em up.
I’m calling it Harvest Chicken Soup
It has a rich full flavour with butternut squash, sweet potato and chicken, plus some yummy herbs to offset the slight sweetness of apple. This is a great soup to toss in the crock pot and forget about. By the time dinner rolls around, it will have a nice yummy flavour. That’s right chicken for dogs. Chicken is a very bland food meaning it is not going to upset your dog’s stomach. In fact it is a calming food and often prescribed for dogs with stomach upsets or dogs recovering from surgery and even older dogs who are no longer interested in eating their kibble. The rest of the ingredients are also easy on your dogs stomach just like they are on your stomach and the added vitamins and minerals from the fall harvest vegetables will do both you and your dog good.
Here’s what you need:
2 bone in chicken breast
2 bone in chicken thighs
(You could use boneless, but I find the bone in makes a more flavourful soup and it’s really easy to pull the chicken out, flake off the meat and discard the bones.)
1 sweet potato
1 small butternut squash
1 MacIntosh Apple
3 c. onion-free chicken stock
1 tbsp. fresh parsley
1 tbsp. fresh basil
3 carrots
3 stalks celery
Optional: ¼ tsp. garlic paste
Peel the skin off of all but 1 piece of chicken and place in the bottom of the crock pot. Pour stock over the chicken pieces.
Peel and chop the carrots and celery. Toss them in the pot along with the chicken.
Peel and chop the butternut squash, sweet potato and apple into small chunks. Place in pot.
Add basil, parsley and garlic (if desired).
Simmer for 4 – 6 hours. The squash and the apple should cook down completely with no remaining chunks leaving you with a nice broth, just a little thicker than your usual soup base. Pull your chicken pieces out of the pot. Discard the skin. Use a fork to pull the chicken meat off the bones, carefully ensuring that all the bones are removed. Place the chicken meat back in the soup.
Serve in a bowl for humans or over your regular kibbles for pups.
I just love a nice fall soup. What’s your favourite fall flavour?
Meet our Cooking for Dogs Editor Jodi and her dogs Kolchak and Felix
Jodi is a canine nutrition and small animal naturopathy student hailing from beautiful Vancouver, BC. (That’s in Canada, eh?) She loves to experiment in the kitchen, creating tasty (and healthy) treats for her two dogs, Felix & Kolchak and the rest of her family. Jodi’s blog, Kol’s Notes follows the antics of the irrepressible Kolchak as he celebrates good food, good friends and the good life.
what a wonderful soup! Gizmo & I would both like that…have to give this one a try
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When I die, I want to come back as one of your dogs. This sounds delicious.
That sounds like an amazing recipe to try, for both humans and dogs. I think I will have to try it out!
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Yumm! The squash and apple are interested ingredients that sounds so delish.
This sounds delightful, and perfect for a fall day! I may even make it this weekend.
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this looks sooo yummy… for a human too!
xo,
Sandy
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Good enough for my lunch. Where is the soup line? I am in. I might have to share with my Charlie though
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This makes me want to go home now and make some chicken soup – the weather is certainly perfect for that. – Katy
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I love a good broccoli soup, but I just bet this would be delicious for the pups!
I’m with Stacy! That soup does look quite tasty.
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Hmmm this is just prefect for the weather!! I am sure the pups would appreciate it a lot!
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might make this for my dog
gonna have totry this on goku
wow this soup is so yummy your pups must love you for making this for them
I haven’t had a dog in the family for a very long time, but when we do make an addition, we will definitely be trying this recipe! Sounds yummy
This looks so yummy. I’ve never thought of making soup for my kids, but they would absolutely love it.
This is an excellent idea! All the things a dog loves! My little girl is big on grilled chicken. Plus, she gets excited when my daughter is getting carrots or apples because she knows she will get a piece. I hadn’t thought about putting it all together in a soup though.
I have four dogs and I bet they would LOVE this chicken soup. I’ll have to try to make it for them sometime. Thanks for sharing!
This sounds wonderful, a soup you can share with your dogs! I know that my 4 dogs would love it!
Yum this sounds like a great recipes for the family and the dog too. Lots of good vegetables and healthy things to eat. Make one meal and the whole family can eat including the dog . Cant get better than that.
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