After years of celebrating boutique meats such as Berkshire pork and heritage turkey, chefs have fallen hard for another protein. Goat has been embraced everywhere from sustainability-focused restaurants like Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., and Blue Hill in New York to "Top Chef" winner Stephanie Izard's Chicago spot Girl and the Goat. The meat has become so popular among chefs that many now complain about not being able to source enough of it.
A mainstay in Jamaican, Mexican and Arab cuisine, goat can seem like the ultimate mystery meat for American home cooks. For all our love of goat cheese and our growing interest in goat yogurt and butter, we still think of goats as cute little horned creatures with stubborn personalities. It's just not part of our food culture.
Katy McLaughlin on Lunch Break has a home cook's guide to buying, prepping and cooking goat, the meat of the moment.
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Anyone who loves red meat but has become bored with beef and lamb would be remiss not to give goat a try. It is healthy, hearty meat, with a third fewer calories than beef and half the saturated fat of chicken. It is also delicious, with a flavor often described as being close to veal and lamb. "It's like a cross between dark-meat turkey and pork," said Mark Scarbrough, co-author of the cookbook "Goat: Meat, Milk, Cheese," which came out last year. "It's more savory and has a richness and deep complexity."
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