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Ingredient 37 · Meat & protein

Beef shin

The lower leg, sold as cross-cut slices with the marrow bone in the centre. A thick sheath of connective tissue surrounds the muscle. After a long braise it turns to gelatin, and the marrow melts into the liquid.

Item no. 37
Aisle Meat & protein
Usual unit slice
Recipes 1
Also called
beef shankshinshankBeinscheibeosso buco cut

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Recipes using it

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Recipe

South African Pepper Steak Pie

Shin, oxtail and tendon braised in merlot and set in their own gelatin, frozen as pucks and baked in individual puff pastry pies.

South African · Second revision · 22 OCT 2026