Beef cut: where it is, price, recipes
Beef flank (stewing)
The belly wall, alternating muscle and fat. Far too sinewy for a pan, ideal in a long broth where it gives up everything it has.
- Stewed
- Boiled
- Braised
$5/ lb
- In French
- Flanchet
- US side
- Flank
- Around the world
- Vacío (Argentina), Matambre (Argentina)
- Where it sits
- Flank. Hanger and skirt are the butcher's own cuts: he kept them for himself, far from the window.
- Tenderness
- 1/5
- Flavor
- 4/5
- Marbling
- 4/5
- Price
- $5 / lb ·
- Actual size
- ~35 cm
