🐐 Ninh Binh Mountain Goat

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Firm, sweet and barely gamey meat from goats raised on limestone peaks, served lime-cured, steamed or grilled with fig leaves and rich fermented soybean sauce.

Ninh Binh's mountain goats roam the limestone ranges, climbing and grazing on medicinal leaves that give their meat a firm texture, sweet aroma and far less gaminess than farm-raised goat. The most celebrated dish is de tai chanh, tender lime-cured goat wrapped in young fig leaves and dipped in fermented soybean sauce. No visitor to the ancient capital of Hoa Lu can resist a plate of this famous mountain goat.

Flavour: Firm, sweet-fleshed, fragrant without gaminess

Ingredients

mountain goat meat
young fig leaves
lime
lemongrass
fermented soybean sauce
sesame