Slow cooked goat with cajun root vegetables
Goat chops can be a bit tough if they are cooked just for a short time, so I usually slow cook them for a day and a half. You can do this in a slow cooker or a thermal cooker. The thermal cooker is much more energy efficient, have a look here. I cook the goat (around one chop per person, but can be more if you like) in a little water, salt and pepper, and in this case I added some green beans into the pot as well. I cook it for a full day, then another half day the next day and have it for lunch.
For the vegetables, we cut up a pot full of root vegetables, in this case potato, sweet potato and carrot. For strict paleo replace potato with pumpkin. In the pot, add 2 cans of coconut cream (this full 7 litre pot fed around 12 hungry folk with still some left, so you may want to halve or even quarter the quantity, depending on how many you are feeding!), 1 1/2 Tbs salt (I use Himalayan rock salt or Celtic sea salt. I find Celtic sea salt is slightly saltier so use less than the rock salt) and around 2Tbs cajun spice. (Make your own cajun spice recipe, google “cajun spice recipe” and find the best one, here is an example… I am intending to experiment with a cajun spice recipe, I will post it here when I have perfected it!) Bring vegetables to a boil then simmer until all vegetables are soft (or slow cook them as well, they only need a few hours though, not 1 1/2 days as with the goat.
Pictured here with a kale based fresh garden salad with a herb dressing.
©2014 Zaia at wholefoodcookery.com – recipe for slow cooked goat with coconut cajun root vegetables, paleo, primal, low fodmap and gluten free.
Author: Zaia Kendall
Zaia grew up in a family of musicians in Holland, and has a background in top sport (snow skiing) and web development and design. She co-founded the PRI Luganville and PRI Sunshine Coast Inc (now PermEco Inc.) with Tom, and runs the “invisible structures”, like finances, business administration, website design and maintenance, writes articles and records and edits videos. She assists Tom in running the Kendall Permaculture Farm and supervising other volunteers. She is an active member of several musical projects and bands, involved in community music and runs percussion and marimba workshops, is the percussion leader for the Woodford Folk Festival People’s Orchestra and composes as well as plays music. She is passionate about community music and loves seeing people discover that they can play!
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