Beef cut: where it is, price, recipes
Hind shank
The rear shank, meatier than the front, the backbone of pot-au-feu and bœuf carottes. Three hours minimum, after which it turns silky.
- Stewed
- Braised
- Boiled
$6/ lb
- In French
- Gîte (jarret arrière)
- US side
- Shank
- Around the world
- Ossobuco (Italy)
- Where it sits
- Shank. Shank sliced across the bone becomes ossobuco, and the marrow is the prize.
- Tenderness
- 1/5
- Flavor
- 5/5
- Marbling
- 2/5
- Price
- $6 / lb ·
- Actual size
- ~30 cm
