Homemade cat food
Haddock & Sweet Potato Mash
A gentle, soft-textured meal of poached white haddock folded through a little sweet potato — easy on sensitive stomachs and popular with fussy or recovering cats.
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Time
- 30 min
- Makes
- 3–4 small portions
🧺 Ingredients
- 1 skinless, boneless haddock fillet (undyed — never smoked or dyed haddock)
- 2 tbsp cooked, mashed sweet potato, no butter or seasoning
- A splash of the plain poaching water
👩🍳 Method
- Poach the haddock gently in plain water until it flakes easily, then lift it out and let it cool.
- Check the cooked fish over carefully with your fingers and remove every bone, however small.
- Flake the fish and fold it through the mashed sweet potato, loosening it with a spoonful of the poaching water to a soft, spoonable texture.
- Serve a few teaspoons at room temperature; refrigerate the rest and use within two days.
Nutrition: Haddock is a lean, highly digestible white fish that delivers plenty of protein for very little fat, while a small amount of sweet potato adds gentle fibre and beta-carotene to soothe and bulk a delicate digestion.
📝 Notes
Use only plain, undyed haddock — the bright yellow smoked kind is salted and not suitable for cats. Fish should be an occasional topper or treat rather than a complete diet, as it lacks the full balance of nutrients a cat needs every day.
⚕️ 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.