The Animal Wellness Natural Cookbook for Dogs

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sassy shiitake sauté

main meals

sassy shiitake sauté

Mushroom lovers will really appreciate this one – a taste sensation for you and your dog.

ingredients

instructions

1 cup fresh Shiitake mushrooms (or other culinary mushroom of your choice), finely chopped or sliced 1 clove garlic, finely minced 1/2

teaspoon sea salt

1 tablespoon olive oil 3 cups cooked whole brown rice, Thai jasmine rice or quinoa*

Heat oil in a large pan. Add mushrooms and garlic, and gently sauté until tender. Add rice or quinoa and salt and combine well. Mix: 2/3 cup of the rice mixture, along with 1 pound of cooked or raw (dogs only) protein (e.g., ground turkey) This will feed a 50-pound moderately active dog for a day. This recipe is not intended to be fed every day.

1 pound of selected protein (e.g., turkey, chicken, beef, bison, lamb) Calcium, as per label instructions

*To prepare quinoa, wash under cold water, using a strainer. Add 1 cup of quinoa to 1¼ cups of boiling filtered water. Reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove pot from stove, allow to sit for five minutes, then plump up quinoa with a fork. Cool before serving. note:

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Blend either sauteed or raw mushrooms with cooked rice or quinoa and raw meat of your choice.

The benefits of shiitake mushrooms:

Shiitake is truly medicine in a mushroom. Shiitake mushrooms contain a natural source of interferon, a protein that appears to induce immune response against cancer and viral diseases. The eritadenine found in Shiitake mushooms helps to decrease fat and cholesterol in the blood, and their germanium supports cellular oxygenation and the immune response. They contain more than 50 enzymes, including pepsin, which aids digestion.

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