This Cajun-inspired recipe is courtesy of former JABGA Area 4 Director Isaac Ridding. You can find this and many other tasty recipes in the JABGA "Cooking for the Future", now available in our E-Store.

Goat Gumbo

Ingredients

• 2 ½ LBS goat meat

• 1 large green pepper

• ¼ CUP all-purpose flour

• 3 large tomatoes, chopped

• 1 TSP dried whole thyme

• 1 bay leaf

• ¼ TBS pepper

• 2 CUPS chicken broth

• 3 TBS butter

• 1 package frozen okra

• 3 TBS vegetable oil

• ½ TSP hot sauce

• ¾ CUP chopped green onion

• 6 CUP hot cooked rice

Directions

1. Trim excess fat from goat meat and cut into 1” cubes.

2. Combine flour, thyme, salt, and pepper; dredge meat in flour mixture.

3. Heat butter and oil in a Dutch oven; add meat and cook until browned on all sides.

4. Remove meat, reserving drippings in the Dutch oven.

5. Add onion and green pepper to drippings; sauté until tender.

6. Stir in meat and the remaining ingredients, except rice.

7. Cover and simmer for 1 ½ hour.

Serve over hot rice.