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Fraldinha

Fraldinha substitutes

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

Fraldinha 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.

Argentina

Vacioclose substitute

Both are the flank/bottom-sirloin flap grilled over fire — fraldinha in Brazilian churrasco, vacío in Argentine asado. Same general cut, sister traditions.

France

Bavette d'aloyauapproximate

Overlapping anatomy — the sirloin flap. Bavette is the French loin-flap cut; fraldinha the Brazilian one. Closely related, cut and trimmed slightly differently.

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