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Tortuguita

Tortuguita substitutes

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

Tortuguita is the traditional name in Argentina. 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.

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United States

Bottom roundapproximate

Same general anatomical region (outside-rear-leg muscle group). Tortuguita is a smaller curved muscle within the broader silverside / contra group; both are slow-cook cuts.

Osso bucoapproximate

Anatomically adjacent — tortuguita is on the upper rear leg, osso buco is the cross-cut shank below it. Both are slow-cook working muscles with significant connective tissue.

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