🇺🇸 United States · Approximate
Pork belly
Pork belly
Lamb Breast is the traditional name in United States. Elsewhere, butchers sell the same piece — or a close cousin — under a different name.
Substitutes for Lamb Breast that can be delivered rather than hunted down at a counter.
🇺🇸 United States · Approximate
Pork belly
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Both are cheap, collagen-rich lamb cuts that need long, slow cooking; interchangeable in stews and slow roasts.
Shoulder is the meatier substitute when a recipe calls for breast, with the same fat-to-collagen behaviour over a long cook.
Lamb breast is structurally the lamb equivalent of pork belly — alternating fat and lean layers that reward slow roasting or braising.