Homemade cat food
Beef Liver & Blueberry Training Bites
Intensely meaty liver bites dotted with mashed blueberry — tiny, high-value rewards for training or clicker sessions.
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Time
- 30 min
- Makes
- About 30 tiny bites
🧺 Ingredients
- 80 g fresh beef liver
- 3 blueberries, mashed
- 2 tbsp oat flour
- 1 small egg, beaten
👩🍳 Method
- Preheat the oven to 170°C (fan 150°C) and line a tray with parchment.
- Blitz or finely chop the raw beef liver into a smooth paste.
- Mix the liver with the mashed blueberries, oat flour and egg to form a thick batter.
- Spread thinly on the tray, or pipe tiny dots, then bake for 15 minutes until firm and dry.
- Cool, then cut or break into tiny training-sized pieces.
Nutrition: Liver is one of the most tempting, nutrient-dense foods for cats, packed with iron, B vitamins and taurine, making these bites ideal high-value rewards, while a hint of antioxidant-rich blueberry adds a colourful, cat-safe twist in tiny amounts.
📝 Notes
Liver is rich in vitamin A, so keep these strictly as occasional, tiny training rewards rather than an everyday food — too much liver over time can cause vitamin A excess. Use only a few blueberries, and refrigerate the bites for up to three days or freeze for longer.
⚕️ 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.