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Lamb Rack

Lamb Rack substitutes

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

Lamb Rack is the traditional name in United States. Outside that tradition, butchers carry comparable lamb 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.

Italy

Abbacchioapproximate

Same anatomical primal but younger animal — abbacchio is whole-animal-young, regular lamb rack comes from older lambs.

United Kingdom

Saddle of lambapproximate

Anatomically adjacent — rack is the rib end (8 ribs), saddle is the loin section behind it. A whole rack-plus-saddle is sometimes called a *long saddle* or sold as a guard-of-honour preparation.

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