How to choose the best cuts of beef according to its preparation?

Did they send you to buy meat for the casserole and you came back with a black slug? For the cook, this can be an error almost as unforgivable as confusing cilantro with parsley, it does not work to replace something as essential as meat in recipes.

For the same reason, we are going to reveal to you the secret that all grillers and meat lovers know: each cut has its way and place of preparation; some excel on the grill while others only shine in the pan. Here we give you some suggestions.

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GRILLED MEAT

Spring is coming and your grill, the one you have stored since the first rain, knows it. The biggest challenge of grilling meat is how little control we have over temperaturewhich can become a big problem if we include cuts that need different cooking times.

Fabio Leone, commercial manager of Athena Food, explains to us that the best options that you can integrate into your grill are those cuts that contain fateither superficially or marbled, since this adds great flavor and helps make it deliciously soft. For a roast we recommend that you choose a vetoed or smooth loin, a goose tip, entrails or even a good strip roast. You will graduate from grill master with this choice!

BAKED MEAT

It’s always good to know that any meat that is good on the grill will be good in the oven Y to the saucepan toobut never the other way around. When we decide to cook meat in the oven, what we are looking for is for it to have a consistency tender and juicywhich we can achieve thanks to the fact that the oven allows us to control the temperature for long periods of cooking so that it softens in the best way.

We recommend you opt for a rich and juicy meat such as prod tip, breastplate, rib, silver, and even the lever. Huachalomo, sobrecostilla, abastero and tapabarriga also become excellent alternatives.

MEAT IN THE CECEROLA

If the grill is for spring, the casserole is definitely the favorite for winter days. Casserole, stew, ajiaco, are some of those dishes that inevitably transport us to our grandmother’s kitchen. The typical preparations vary from family to family, but there is something that never changes and it is the cut of meat that is used and that is that we cannot use just any.

Depending on the recipe you can find the best cut for your preparation; for the casserole, the ossobuco and the tapapecho are delicious; for a stew paddle tip it is perfect; Y for a rich meatloaf we recommend the goose chicken.

SKILLED MEAT

Finally, if you are one of those who enjoy a simple pan-fried steak, we recommend buying a smooth or veined spine. A good tip is slice it before freezing Y store the pieces in different bagsso you always have a portion ready when you need it.

Athena Foods It has a variety of meat options for food lovers. Within the local offer, we highlight our Cabaña Las Lilas line, with entrail cuts, smooth loin, vetoed loin and goose end, among others. This meat, of Argentine origin, has international recognition, comes from steers of crosses of British breeds and stands out for its good marbling, ideal fat coverage and juiciness,» explains Leone. The company is responsible of more than 30% of the meat consumed in the country and it is the market leader in meat exports from South America to the rest of the planet.