Top 8 delicious goat meat recipes at home
The interest in wild goat meat dishes is not accidental. In terms of taste, the meat is close to tender lamb. There are several subtleties of cooking, both carcasses of young animals and adults. The result should be several truly royal dishes that your guests and loved ones will be delighted with. You can also use homemade goat meat in recipes.
Product selection and storage rules
You need to learn to distinguish between the meat of young and old animals. First of all, it is the density of the fibers in the carcass. In kids, the meat is obviously more tender, in adults it is a little tougher. Fat is also a distinguishing feature: white in young animals and yellowish in older animals. Wild goat meat is even tougher, so it is pickled. It is better to go to the market for a fresh product, there is more choice.
Signs of fresh meat - natural pink, reddish color, lack of mucus, repulsive smell. Cut meat (removed from the bones) lasts longer than carcass. But it cannot be stored for too long. The conditions for saving are the same as for pork, beef: freezing. It is believed that there is no point in keeping the product longer than 3 days. It will lose all its beneficial properties.
Features of use
To make the goat meat odorless in the dish, especially if you decide to use a wild goat, a marinade is used. Be sure to add spices: they will emphasize the delicate taste, aroma of goat meat, open the bouquet. Professionals can even cook delicious cutlets or fillets in sauce from an old mountain goat.
Recipes featuring goat meat
Goat meat is used to prepare both traditional dishes and specific, national ones, adopted by some peoples.
The most commonly used recipes are:
- meat in béchamel sauce;
- spicy cutlets;
- lula kebab;
- roll;
- roast;
- meat soup (shurpa).
The full list of all possible options is not limited to this. Basturma is made from goat meat, baked on ribs and much more.
Goat meat in béchamel sauce
There is no particular difficulty in this delicious dish for someone who is familiar with cooking firsthand. You just need to follow the recipe exactly. And be sure to take young goat meat, it affects the taste.
For cooking you need:
- goat fillet - 500 grams;
- cream - 500 grams;
- butter - 100 grams;
- flour - 100 grams;
- onion - 1 piece.
You will also need nutmeg, other spices, salt to taste. First, the meat is boiled for about 30 minutes, then cut into pieces. Separately prepare the sauce - heat the butter, adding cream and flour. Mix thoroughly. It remains to pour the goat meat with the resulting mixture and simmer over low heat.
Cutlets
The secret of this dish is that it can be prepared from the meat of old animals, even wild goats. Pre-chopped pieces should be processed in a marinade of vinegar, table wine and spices. This will make the meat more tender and remove the specific flavor.
What we need:
- fillet - 500 grams;
- pork fat - 100 grams;
- table vinegar - 50 milliliters;
- dry wine (white or red) - 100 milliliters;
- onion - 1 piece;
- garlic - 3-4 cloves;
- loaf, stale loaf (unsweetened) - about one third;
- breading;
- milk;
- salt, spices (to your taste).
Marinated goat meat languishes for about an hour in a cold place. Then it, along with lard, is passed through a meat grinder, adding onion and garlic. It is allowed to refuse one or another ingredient if they are not used in your family. Or reduce the amount to a minimum. The loaf is soaked in milk, as for ordinary cutlets. Boneless mince pieces are baked in the oven.
Stew with prunes
An unusual way of cooking gives the meat a spicy taste, makes it more tender.
Here's what it takes to implement:
- fillet - 200 grams;
- ripe or dried prunes - 170 grams;
- onion - 1 onion;
- flour - 30 grams;
- tomato - 1 tablespoon.
Also add sugar, vinegar, cinnamon, cloves. Pre-fried goat meat is placed in a suitable saucepan (stewpan), mixed with onions, tomato paste, stewed in the broth left over after boiling the goat meat. Then they add prunes, flour, and other spices to them and keep them on low heat until cooked.
Lula kebab
Making a kebab at home - what could be the best idea? Only goat meat is needed for him without bones, one pulp.
Complete list of ingredients:
- fillet - 600 grams;
- lard - 200 grams;
- onions - 2 pieces;
- cumin, coriander, pepper (to taste).
Goat meat must be cleaned of fat, films, finely chopped (minced with a meat grinder), mixed with lard, onions - as when preparing minced meat for cutlets. Do not forget about the spices, they are the basis of the kebab. Sausages are molded from the mixture, which then need to be planted on wooden sticks.
The kebab blanks are fried in a pan until golden brown, occasionally turning over.
Festive roll
To prepare a delicious roll for a holiday, you will need very little - a little patience, desire and the necessary components.
You will need:
- goat meat (pulp) - 800 grams;
- chicken eggs - 5 pieces;
- bread (crumb or loaf) - 300 grams;
- milk - 100 milliliters;
- breading - 400 grams;
- garlic - 6 cloves;
- onion - 1 piece.
Also used in the recipe: parsley, onion feathers, spices, salt. The roll is baked in the oven, cut into slices after readiness, cooled down.
Basturma
A dried delicacy is made from:
- goat meat (2 kilograms);
- alcohol (100 milliliters);
- cognac (50 milliliters);
- pepper mixture (about a tablespoon);
- spices.
First, the pulp is cut into strips, which are then doused with alcohol. A layer of table salt is poured onto the bottom of a wide pan, where the basturma will languish. Then the fillet is laid, again covered with salt. In the following days, the meat, placed in the refrigerator, is periodically shifted for uniform processing. After 4 days, the strips are removed, cleaned of salt and again placed in the cold, put under oppression and wrapped in gauze. It remains to prepare the coating - the spices are infused in water, the resulting broth is mixed with cognac. Then the meat is processed again, but this time it is dried in the open air in gauze.
Roast with vegetables
The classic version uses bell peppers, potatoes and zucchini. You can expand this list, so the dish will only benefit. You will need:
- goat meat - 500 grams;
- Bulgarian pepper - 2 pieces;
- potatoes - 4 pieces;
- tomatoes - 4 pieces;
- zucchini, carrots, onion - 1 each;
- garlic - 4 cloves.
It is stewed like a regular roast, in a sealed container, only in the oven and in tomato sauce (puree). 20 minutes before cooking, remove the lid to brown the meat.
Smoked ribs in glaze
It is very difficult to smoke meat without special equipment and skills. You can replace this stage with a special compound - liquid smoke. It will give the ribs a smoked flavor. And here is the recipe:
- meat on the bone - 700 grams;
- lemon juice - 20 milliliters;
- soy sauce - 40 milliliters;
- brown sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- onion - 1 piece.
We traditionally add spices to our taste.
Prepare a marinade from lemon juice, soy sauce, sugar, spices and onion puree. We soak the meat in it for several hours (you can put it overnight). Then we bake on a wire rack in the oven, turning occasionally. If desired, cover with liquid smoke for a smoked effect.
