Dear Twitpic Community – thank you for all the wonderful photos you have taken over the years. We have now placed Twitpic in an archived state. Picanha is a cut of beef first made bottom round steak recetas in Brazil, and later adopted in Portugal.

North American butchers generally divide this cut into other cuts like the rump, the round, and the loin. In Brazil, the most prized cut of meat tends to be the picanha. There the traditional preparation is to skewer the meat and cook it over a charcoal grill, with a minimal seasoning consisting of sea salt. The fat is retained until the steak has been cooked.

The term picanha is of unknown origin. It could be derived from the word picana, which was a pole used by ranchers in the southern parts of Portugal and Spain, particularly in Alentejo, for herding cattle. The Brazilian Brand of Meat” Street Smart Brazil. Meat Quality Workshop: Know Your Meat”.

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