Picanha suína substitutes

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

Picanha suína is the traditional name in Brazil. Outside that tradition, butchers carry comparable pork 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.

Brazil

Picanhaapproximate

Same conceptual cut on a different animal — both are the rump cap with fat cap preserved, both are grilled with the fat-side-down rendering technique. Picanha suína is the pork-side adaptation of the iconic beef cut.

United Kingdom

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Same anatomical primal — picanha suína is butchered from the upper rump end of the pork leg, keeping the fat cap. Most leg-of-pork butchery trims the cap; the picanha cut deliberately preserves it.

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