I read that the most common meat eaten worldwide is goat...

[Callmecrazy]

Any of you guys ever tried goat meat? There's a market down the street that sells it and I was curious as to how it is prepared? And is it worth trying?

Anybody?

[HipChick]

1. I love Goat Meat...curried with brown rice and peas

[Callmecrazy]

5. Sounds yummy...

Is it prepared much the same way as beef or pork? Like in chops or roasts? does it have a gamey flavor like elk or venison?

[BlueJazz]

2. There was a post about Goats a few days ago. I believe the farmers pick them off of trees.

That's what I herd.

[Callmecrazy]

3. Yeah, I saw that post...

I wonder when they're in season. I guess they have to be picked then.
But does goat meat taste like chicken? Inebriated minds want to know.

[In_The_Wind]

4. It's good cooked with lemon and garlic. I like a sour cream sauce over it.

[csziggy]

6. Goat is pretty good - tastes a little like venison.

But it depends on what the goats eat, I've heard.

I've had BBQed and in a recipe based on coq au vin - both were great. They were young, tender goats, so we didn't have to worry about stewing to tenderize the meat.

[Callmecrazy]

7. That was my next question...

Is the meat tender or chewy? And goats will eat just about anything they can put in their mouth, so I imagine the meat can get a little gamey. Like when a deer eats too much sage.

[csziggy]

8. Both goats I ate had been fed hay and grain

Same stuff the horses ate. And they were kept confined so were tender.

I was told if they were allowed to browse and wander, they'd be gamy and tougher.

[Chan790]

12. Aye, that be the rub.

Goats that are served in the US are generally pasture-raised and more-or-less organic, killed younger (often as kids...before maturity) and grass-fed...they taste mild and are tender.

Goats elsewhere, such as the Caribbean, are typically dry milk-goats: they're older, they're free-range foragers, often on diets of trash, table refuse, bugs, weeds...they're tougher and gamy.

Comparing the two is like comparing beef to veal or lamb to mutton.

[libodem]

9. Yeah,

Ya eat one goat......oop wrong story.

[Callmecrazy]

10. Go lay down!

[libodem]

14. I couldn't resist

(I love that goat joke)

[AnneD]

35. Stop ...

kidding us.

[libodem]

38. lololol

I kid you not.

[nolabear]

11. Goat is tasty. It's in Indian food a lot.

It's more or less like mutton but I think milder and a bit fattier.

[HipChick]

13. Indian and Island Cuisine

I buy goat at the local Asian store, curry it..

[Callmecrazy]

16. A lot of Islanders live here in So. Fla...

And this is the only place I've found that sells their stuff. Like goat and octopus and conch. The spices are interesting too. Not real crazy about conch, though.

[AnneD]

36. Conch is great....

conch fritters...yummmmm

[geardaddy]

25. Here in Minneapolis

The Somali halal meat stores are the place to get it.

[eShirl]

15. I had goat stew made by young Jamaican summer workers before they returned home from Maine

It was good, not too unlike pork white meat as I recall

The goat was walking around their house a couple hours before the meal

[Callmecrazy]

17. There's really nothing like meat you've seen to yourself...

Just seems to taste better to me. Especially fish like yellow snapper or mahi mahi.

[rudolph the red]

18. It's somewhat popular in Northern New Mexico

I have had some excellent posole there that was made with goat.

[Le Taz Hot]

19. It's delicious!

I prefer it over beef. Much more flavorful, far less fat but way expensive -- about $20.00 per pound at my local farmers market.

[Arugula Latte]

20. These two love it:

[Tabasco_Dave]

21. I had a few goat tacos in chicano neighborhoods.

I liked them.

[haele]

22. A little gamey, and a bit stringy.

But pretty damn good if spiced properly.
Roast over a spit is good too, just be careful not to dry it out.

Haele

[KamaAina]

23. Birria is a Mexican goat stew

about which I've heard good things. Many Mexican places in the Bay Area serve it as a weekends-only special.

[a la izquierda]

26. Birria is amazing.

I had it in Jalisco. Won't eat it now, but I highly recommend it to carnivores.

[geardaddy]

24. I love goat

Nice and gamey.

[Little Star]

27. I'll pass on the goat meat but love goats cheese.

[Boom Sound 416]

28. It's not so baaaaad

[davidpdx]

30. But you are

[blueamy66]

29. Yuck

nt

[davidpdx]

31. Never had it, probably would never try it. I'm pretty picky foodwise

I've had lamb and it was in Indian food at a wedding in the US. It was terrible. I've eaten Indian food quite a few times since and grown to enjoy it. I think company that catered the wedding was just terrible.

[Recursion]

32. Come to Mumbai. It's all goat all the time.

Any Indian recipe you have in the US as "lamb" (more on that in a second) is probably a Punjabi recipe that was originally goat.

They call goat here "mutton", which we think of as "sheep too old to be lamb." But that's not quite accurate, because most of the sheep we eat in the US as "lamb" are too old to be "lamb" in the EU or most Asian countries, and would be "mutton", meaning "adult sheep".

So, lamb rogan josh, or "lamb in hot fat", is from a Punjabi recipe for goat in a similar treatment, but goat is hard (but not impossible) to find in the US. Or "lamb vindaloo", or "lamb in vinegar and garlic" (it's a Portuguese phrase, and dish) was originally goat, which they turned to when they ran out of the "authentic" ingredient, pork.

Goat is a great meat. I can't stress enough the cool stuff you can do with it, but you have to cook it slowly and with consideration. Don't overspice. We have a rangetop smoker (best wedding registry item ever) which does wonders to goat meat.

[JCMach1]

33. unfortunately, it tastes like GOAT

[Xipe Totec]

42. You should try milk fed baby goat.

It tastes like milk fed baby goat.

[JCMach1]

46. Tried every which a way... BBQ Goat is ok when slathered in spices

as they do in Africa and the Middle-East...

Perhaps the worst thing is... when you eat too much goat meat and cheese...

YOUR SWEAT STARTS SMELLING LIKE GOAT!

[Xipe Totec]

48. That's what teenagers smell like, no matter what they eat.

Maybe eating goat makes you young?

[AnneD]

34. A tasty sustainable....

meat. I have eaten it on many occasions. It is delish bar b qued. Hubby is from Indian so I have had it in curry sauces.

[benld74]

37. 1982-Jamaica-BBQ goat

of course the rum punch assisted, but yeah it was good!

[lunatica]

39. Roasted over an open fire goat is called Cabrito in the northern part of Mexico. Delicious!

[trof]

40. Cabrito is very tasty. I've also had BBQd goat.

Annual political event in Shelby County Alabama.

[Xipe Totec]

41. It is the regional dish of northern Mexico

Cabrito al pastor - whole baby goat roasted over an open coal fire is the definitive dish in that region, from Sonora to Tamaulipas.

My home town has scores of restaurants specializing in cabrito.

It is my favorite dish bar none.

[Munificence]

43. I was in Matamoros

this spring and sprung for the roasted goat. Was a baby goat, couldn't have been more than a few months old.

Was a bit stringy but mighty tasty none the less. Was the first time I had it and I would def eat it again.

[Jamaal510]

44. I'd use one as a lawnmower before eating one. eom

[chknltl]

45. Ouagadougou

The fact that I know the name Ouagadougou is proof of the power great teachers can have over young minds. The name was taught to me almost half a century ago in a junior high school geography class. Fast forward to a few years ago where I found myself up in Seattle fretting over a menu in an African restaurant. I asked the waiter to recommend something traditional and he informed me that in his country, Upper Volta, goat is quite popular. I had never eaten goat before so I tried a goat dish. I found the dish unmemorable but the one thing I shall never forget that day was the broad smile on the waiter's face when I told him that I knew the name of the capitol of his country. (ew-wa-ga-dew-goo)

[JCMach1]

47. OF course the measure of having eaten too many goat products is when your sweat

starts smelling like goat... YUCK...


Has happened to me a couple of times.

[Callalily]

49. Yup! Had curried goat

while on vacation on Cayman Brac. Was yummy!

It's a quite popular dish in the Caribbean.