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Sirloin substitutes

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

Sirloin is the traditional name in Mexico. 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.

Brazil

Picanhaapproximate

Picanha sits above the sirloin and shares similar flavor profile, but is kept with its fat cap and treated as a distinct roasting cut in Brazilian tradition.

France

Aiguillette baronneapproximate

Same primal — aiguillette baronne is a specific muscle within the broader top-sirloin region; sirloin is the broader cut.

Germany

Tafelspitzapproximate

Adjacent primal — the rump cap sits at the bottom edge of the sirloin/round area depending on the regional butchery system.

United Kingdom

Rump steakapproximate

Adjacent cuts from the hindquarter with similar flavor profiles — rump has slightly more chew and flavor while sirloin is marginally more tender.

United States

Tri-tipapproximate

Both are from the sirloin primal with moderate tenderness and good flavour, but tri-tip is a distinct triangular muscle with a stronger flavour and better suited to roasting whole.

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