Homemade cat food
Rabbit & Carrot Novel-Protein Stew
A gentle, soupy stew built on rabbit — a genuinely novel protein — for cats trialling a simplified diet with their vet.
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Time
- 45 min
- Makes
- 4 portions
🧺 Ingredients
- 180 g plain rabbit meat, boneless
- 1 small carrot, peeled
- 150 ml unsalted water or plain rabbit/chicken broth
- A vet-recommended supplement if rabbit is fed regularly (ask your vet)
👩🍳 Method
- Cut the rabbit into small pieces and check carefully that no bone fragments remain.
- Simmer the rabbit gently in the water or broth until fully cooked and tender.
- Steam or boil the carrot separately until very soft, then mash it smooth.
- Finely chop or shred the cooled rabbit and stir it back into a little of the cooking liquid with the mashed carrot.
- Serve warm but not hot as a soft, soupy stew, and refrigerate the rest.
- Introduce a small amount first to check it agrees with your cat.
Nutrition: Lean rabbit is a low-fat, easily digested protein many cats have never eaten before, which makes it valuable for sensitivity trials, while soft carrot adds a little gentle fibre and beta-carotene to the broth.
📝 Notes
Rabbit is a useful novel protein for cats reacting to chicken or fish, but any true elimination diet must be guided by your vet. This is a topper or meal component, not a complete balanced meal, so keep it under 10% of daily calories unless your vet has balanced the recipe. Store in the fridge for up to 3 days.
⚕️ 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.