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Bavette d'aloyau

Bavette d'aloyau substitutes

What to use when you can't find Bavette d'aloyau at your butcher

Bavette d'aloyau is the traditional name in France. 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.

Argentina

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Very similar cuts from the flank area — bavette d'aloyau is slightly more tender and from higher up the flank, while American flank steak is from lower down.

Mexico

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Both are intensely flavored, fibrous cuts used similarly in bistro and taquería cooking, but bavette is from the flank while skirt is the diaphragm muscle.

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