What is cecina?
Quick Answer
"cecina" can map to more than one canonical beef cut in this dataset; open each hub below for the exact primal and location.
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What is cecina?
"cecina" may map to more than one canonical cut in this dataset—use the hub links on this page.
Where does cecina come from on the cow?
Open each linked canonical guide; primals differ when the name is ambiguous.
“cecina” is a regional beef-cut name that maps to these canonical cuts: Brisket, Skirt.
This retail name can point to more than one canonical cut in our dataset—see the canonical guides below.
Global cut guide
Where it comes from
Brisket: From the breast and lower chest. Two sub-sections: the flat (lean, uniform) and the point/deckle (fattier, more marbled). The most iconic cut for American BBQ smoking. Also used for braising, corned beef, and pastrami. (brisket, Breast / lower chest, between the forelegs). Skirt: Plate primal diaphragm muscle; very beefy, used for fajitas and grilling. (plate, diaphragm (inside/outside skirt varies by spec)).
In menus and butcher shops it is often discussed next to Short Ribs, Fore Shank, Brisket Flat, and Brisket Point.
What it's called in other countries
- Afghanistan: sineh · skirt
- Albania: gjoks · skirt
- Andhra Pradesh: rommu mukkalu · kovvu · skirt
- Angola: peito · skirt
- Argentina: Pecho · Entraña
- Australia: brisket au · thin skirt
- Austria: brust · skirt
- Bangladesh: book-er · mezban cut · tehari cut · charbi bd · skirt
- Belarus: hrudzinka · skirt
- Belgium: poitrine · skirt
- Belize: brisket · skirt
- Bhutan: tsa-sha · skirt
- Bolivia: pecho · entraña bo
- Bosnia & Herzegovina: grudi · prsa · skirt
- Botswana: sehuba · skirt
- Brazil: Peito · Entraña (import)
- Bulgaria: gardi · skirt
- Burkina Faso: sukur-ndo · toggo · skirt
- Cameroon: poitrine · skirt
- Canada: brisket · skirt
- Central India: seena central · sati · skirt
- Chad: al-sidir · al-sanam · kaba · skirt
- Chile: Tapapecho · Entraña
- China: niunan china · skirt
- Coastal-Colonial India (Pondicherry & Daman): poitrine pondicherry · salt meat daman · peito daman · skirt
- Colombia: Entrepecho · Arrachera (regional)
- Costa Rica: cecina · entraña
- Côte d'Ivoire: poitrine · skirt
- Croatia: prsa · skirt
- Cuba: pecho · entraña
- Czech Republic: hrudí · skirt
- Denmark: Oksebryst · skirt
- Dominican Republic: pecho · churrasco
- DR Congo: poitrine · skirt
- Ecuador: pecho · entraña ec
- Egypt: dosh · skirt
- El Salvador: cecina sv · pecho
- Estonia: rinnatükk · skirt
- Ethiopia: fidsh · skirt
- Finland: rinta · kylkiliha
- France: Poitrine · Bavette overlap
- Germany: Rinderbrust · skirt
- Goa: brisket goa · salt meat · skirt
- Greece: stithos · skirt
- Guatemala: pecho · entraña
- Guyana: brisket · skirt
- Haiti: pwatrin · skirt
- Himachal Pradesh & Uttarakhand: seena himachal · seena uttarakhand · skirt
- Honduras: cecina hn · pecho
- Hungary: szegy · skirt
- Indian Islands (Andaman, Nicobar & Lakshadweep): seena andaman · nenju lakshadweep · coconut oil correction lakshadweep · skirt
- Indonesia: brisket · skirt
- Iran: brisket · skirt
- Ireland: brisket · goose skirt
- Israel: chaze bakar · skirt
- Italy: Punta di petto · skirt
- Jamaica: brisket · skirt
- Jammu & Kashmir: seena jk · skirt
- Japan: katarabara · harami
- Karnataka: seena ka · charbi ka · skirt
- Kazakhstan: tos · skirt
- Kenya: kidari · skirt
- Kerala: nenju rachi · kozhuppu rachi · skirt
- Ladakh: tsa-sha · yak brisket ladakh · mok-mok cut · sha-pao cut · skirt
- Latvia: krūšu daļa · skirt
- Lithuania: krūtininė · skirt
- Maharashtra: seena mh · charbi mh · skirt
- Malaysia: daging tetel · skirt
- Mali: sisiko · zebu ngoun · skirt
- Manipur: tha-sa · shan-sa meihouba · berma cut · kangshoy cut · skirt
- Meghalaya: doh khlein · doh masi thang · doh khlein jadoh cut · skirt
- Mexico: Pecho · Arrachera
- Mongolia: ovchuu mongolia · skirt
- Montenegro: grudi · skirt
- Morocco: brisket · skirt
- Mozambique: peito · skirt
- Myanmar: yin-nyunt · sibyan brisket cut · skirt
- Nagaland: vitho kezhu · vitho keshu · fermented vitho · naga axone cut · anishi cut · skirt
- Namibia: borsstuk · skirt
- Nepal: chhati nepal · skirt
- Netherlands: Runderborst · skirt
- New Zealand: brisket nz · skirt
- Nicaragua: cecina nic · pecho
- Niger: kirji · kaba · skirt
- Nigeria: chest ng · kirji · eran malu · kaba · skirt
- North Macedonia: gradi · skirt
- Northeast India (Other States): suka mansa · sa-thau · sa-rep · sati mangxo · dhua-khua mangxo · buk-er · mos-sa meihouba tripura · tripura chakhwi cut · skirt
- Norway: oksebryst · skjørt
- Pakistan: seena pk · skirt
- Panama: pecho · entraña
- Paraguay: brisket · Entraña
- Peru: pecho · entraña
- Philippines: punong dapit · skirt
- Poland: mostek · skirt
- Portugal: Peito · maçã do peito · skirt
- Puerto Rico: pecho · churrasco
- Punjab: seena pb · charbi pb · skirt
- Qatar: sadr qa · skirt
- Quebec: poitrine · hampe
- Rajasthan: seena rj · kidney charbi rj · skirt
- Romania: piept · skirt
- Russia: grudinka · skirt
- Saudi Arabia: sadr · skirt
- Senegal: poitrin mi · thieboudienne cut · skirt
- Sikkim: boso bhayeko · momo ko masu · skirt
- Singapore: brisket sg · skirt
- Slovakia: hruď · skirt
- Slovenia: prsa · skirt
- South Africa: brisket sa · skirt
- South Korea: yangji · skirt
- Spain: pecho · Entraña
- Sri Lanka: penna · skirt
- Sudan: sidir · skirt
- Suriname: soepvlees · skirt
- Sweden: bringa · skirt
- Switzerland: federstück · skirt
- Taiwan: niunan · heng ge mo
- Tamil Nadu: kozhuppu rachi tn · charbi tn · skirt
- Tanzania: kidari tanzania · kidari · skirt
- Telangana: seena tg · charbi tg · skirt
- Thailand: suea rong hai · skirt
- Trinidad & Tobago: brisket · skirt
- Turkey: döş · skirt
- UAE: dosh uae · skirt
- Uganda: kifuba · skirt
- Ukraine: hrudynka · skirt
- United Kingdom: Brisket · Skirt
- United States: Brisket · Beef brisket · Skirt steak
- Uruguay: Pecho · Entraña
- Uttar Pradesh: seena up · charbi up · skirt
- Uzbekistan: to'sh · skirt
- Venezuela: pecho · entraña
- Vietnam: brisket · skirt
- West Bengal: buker · charbi wb · skirt
- Zimbabwe: chipfuva · skirt
Cooking methods
Typical methods include high-heat searing or grilling for steaks, resting before slicing, and cutting across the grain when the muscle is fibrous. Because this cut sits on the brisket primal (Breast / lower chest, between the forelegs), adjust time and temperature to thickness and marbling.
Translations across countries
- Afghanistan → Albania (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Andhra Pradesh (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Angola (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Argentina (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Australia (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Austria (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Bangladesh (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Belarus (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Belgium (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Belize (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Bhutan (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Bolivia (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Bosnia & Herzegovina (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Botswana (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Brazil (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Bulgaria (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Burkina Faso (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Cameroon (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Canada (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Chad (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Chile (sineh)
- Afghanistan → China (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Colombia (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Costa Rica (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Côte d'Ivoire (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Croatia (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Cuba (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Czech Republic (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Denmark (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Dominican Republic (sineh)
- Afghanistan → DR Congo (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Ecuador (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Egypt (sineh)
- Afghanistan → El Salvador (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Estonia (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Ethiopia (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Finland (sineh)
- Afghanistan → France (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Germany (sineh)
- Afghanistan → Goa (sineh)
Showing 40 of 20100 routes — more in the sitemap.