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Alcatra

Alcatra substitutes

What to use when you can't find Alcatra at your butcher

Alcatra is the traditional name in Brazil. Outside that tradition, butchers carry comparable beef cuts under different names — sometimes the same anatomical piece, sometimes a close cousin. The alternatives below are grouped by country so you can match what your local butcher actually carries.

Mexico

Sirloinclose substitute

The same top-sirloin/rump region. Alcatra is the Brazilian–Portuguese name; sirloin (top sirloin) the US–UK one. Same primal, different tradition.

United Kingdom

Rump steakclose substitute

Overlapping rump anatomy — Portuguese alcatra maps most directly to the British rump. Same region, different butchering and naming.

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