How To Make Cat-Friendly Shrimp Potato Cups
Crispy baked shrimp stuffed in veggie mashed potatoes with Mexican cheese, these potato cups are a delicious treat for you and your cat, too!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 3cupsmashed potato
- 1cuppea,cooked
- 1cupcorn,cooked and chopped
- 1cupcarrot,cooked and chopped
- 1cupham,thick chopped
- ½cupparmesan cheese
- ½lbshrimp
- 2cupswhole wheat breadcrumbs
- 3eggs,beaten
- 2tbspolive oil
- non-stick spray
- ½cupmexican cheese blend,shredded or shredded cheddar cheese
For Garnish:
- sour cream,for you
- fresh cilantro,for you
- catnip,for your cat
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
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In a bowl, mix the mashed potato, peas, corn, carrots, ham and half of the parmesan cheese. Mix well.
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Mix the breadcrumbs and remaining parmesan cheese together. Dip each shrimp in egg, then breadcrumbs. Place in a baking tray. Drizzle olive oil on top. Bake for about 10 minutes or until the breadcrumbs turn golden and the prawns are cooked through.
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Grease a regular-size muffin mold, and a mini one. Add some of the potato mix until the molds are full. Using your fingers, mold a hole in the middle of the cups.
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Place a whole shrimp in the hole of the regular-size cups. Add half a shrimp to the mini cups. Add Mexican blend cheese (or cheddar) to your cups, and lightly sprinkle the mini cups.
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Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cheese on top turns golden.
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Add sour cream and cilantro to your cups. Sprinkle catnip on your cat’s mini cups. Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Cats should only consume these kitty-friendly ingredients in moderation.
Nutrition
- Calories: 837.05kcal
- Fat: 35.33g
- Saturated Fat: 12.13g
- Trans Fat: 0.41g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 13.82g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 6.38g
- Carbohydrates: 84.54g
- Fiber: 8.36g
- Sugar: 10.39g
- Protein: 45.48g
- Cholesterol: 254.33mg
- Sodium: 2299.38mg
- Calcium: 539.04mg
- Potassium: 1255.42mg
- Iron: 5.45mg
- Vitamin A: 531.57µg
- Vitamin C: 20.18mg
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