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Beef cut: where it is, price, recipes

Beef kidneys

Lobed like a bunch of grapes, soaked before cooking and seared hard. Britain built steak and kidney pie around them; France reaches instead for mustard and madeira.

  • Pan-seared
  • Stewed
Marguerite in profile, with the Beef kidneys outlined$5/ lb
Marguerite · Flank · inside the animal
In French
Rognons de bœuf
Where it sits
Flank. Hanger and skirt are the butcher's own cuts: he kept them for himself, far from the window.
Tenderness
3/5
Flavor
5/5
Marbling
1/5
Price
$5 / lb ·
Actual size
~15 cm

Recipes that name the Beef kidneys