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You can treat goat like stew meat and cook it with carrots and onions, but I prefer it African-style, with pumpkin. African Goat Stew Recipe from Library of Congress American Memory project.

A note about goat: We refused to buy baby goat at the market on principle. (We don't eat veal, either). Consequently, we must have cooked this old goat in the crockpot about 14 hours before it was tender enough to eat. Some people dice it into really small pieces before cooking, which would shave time off that. By that time, the pumpkin was indistinguishable; you might wait to add for the last 6 hours or so.

Where to buy goat? Try a meat market in a Hispanic neighborhood. We bought ours at Armando's, 265 Pine St., Pawtucket for $2.99 a pound. The baby goat was $5.99 a pound.

African goat stew

1 1/2 lb of goat (best when market fresh)
2 large onions
2 carrots (or some pumpkin), in chunks
1 clove of garlic
3 tbs of butter
2 tbsp tomato puree
1/2 bay leaf
1/8 tsp of cloves
1/8 of ginger
1 dash of cayenne
salt and white pepper
1 tb freshly squeezed lemon juice ( may use vinegar as substitute)
2 cups of beef stock
2 tb of peanut butter
2 tbs of flour

Peel and dice the onions, and slice the carrots (or pumpkin).

Crush the garlic.

Heat up the butter to medium heat and saute the meat and vegetables for a few minutes (till onions are translucent).Put them in to a crockpot.

Then add tomato puree, spices, lemon juice, and the stock.

Cook overnight in the crockpot on low.

When meat is tender, mix peanut butter and flour and stir it into the stew.

Let the stew simmer till thicker and flour taste is gone. Check the seasoning.

Serve over brown rice with Scotch Bonnet sauce.

(Because peanut butter stew over rice is my favorite African dish, I also mixed more peanut butter into the dish on my plate. If you like peanut butter, you might try that. But both ways are delicious.)

The peanut butter is showing on the right side of the photo.

Like most stews, it's even better the next day, and reheat well in the microwave.