Goat meat

Goat meat is the meat of the domestic goat. The pup is called Kitzfleisch. It is an integral part of the Indian and Southern cuisine and the cuisines of the Middle East, Europe specialty.

Goat meat was historically in poor communities and in areas with low soil fertility, such as mountains, a welcome alternative to beef or pork. Not only because of the milk was the frugal domestic goat with their meat as " cow of the little man ." Goat meat is low in fat.

Depending on the age of the goat milk, a distinction kids (up to 6 months) or young goats (up to 12 months). On the coloring of the flesh you can see the age of the slaughtered animal. It is light pink in young animals and in older dark red.

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the meat of goat kids has traditionally been considered as an Easter dish. The variations of the preparation are very diverse. In many areas of the Swiss franc, the goat is a festive roast at fair ( roast goat ). In the Portuguese cuisine is cabrito asado ( roasted kid ) a very popular dish in which the animal used is about a month old. In Asia, especially the Philippines for dishes with goat meat are known. In Manila, there are even special restaurants for goat dishes. One of the most famous is Calderata, a soup.

The meat of adult goats is considered tough and hardly plays a role in European cuisine. The the goat has an unpleasant taste and is not edible. Also the cutback animals that are common in other animal species, has been little common in goats. In the based on the humoral theory Dietetics of the Middle Ages and the early modern goat meat was considered a useful food for infertility. The meat of young animals was used in the 18th century almost exclusively. So it says in Johann Georg Krünitz: " The meat of young goats is a much appreciated food [ ... ] yes you are not rare lamb for the young goats. The female goats if they are fattened, even slaughtered, but their meat is far less appreciated than that of sheep [ ... ]; the flesh of old, not emasculated, goats but so little attention in many areas, that it even spurned the poorest people in class by it tastes just as peculiar as an old goat smells. "