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What is "picanha"? « Thread Started on Jun 26, 2006, 12:51pm »
In Brazil (and in special Brazilian restaurants in the USA), they serve meat on swords. Men walk around with swords filled with many differenet kinds of beef pork and chicken.
They usually bring around the best cut of beef when you start getting full. It is called "picanha".
I can only buy this meat in the USA at brazilian butcher shops, because I don't what this cut of beef is called in English (so I can't order it at the local butcher shop).
Any idea what you call it in English? All I know is the cut is located on the top of the rump near the back of the cow.
Re: What is "picanha"? « Reply #1 on Jul 30, 2008, 10:41pm »
I am not so sure that picanha is the tri-tip. It really is the rump cap (NAMP-184 or UN code 2091).
Here is a link of the different meat cuts in Latin America - although this is from Uruguay, this does contain the Brazilian cut picanha (spelled picaņa in spanish) as Brazil is their main export market.
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