Cheaper meat cuts on menu

Butchers are reporting less expensive cuts of meat have become a hit with consumers on tighter budgets.

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Butchers report people are increasingly buying cuts of meats shunned during the more affluent Celtic Tiger years.
Shanks of lamb, oxtails and shin beef are now back on shopping lists, says David Lang, a butcher for over 40 years and development officer of the Association of Craft Butchers of Ireland.

“A lot of these cuts were seen as peasant food and not upmarket enough for our tastes during the Celtic Tiger, but now people realise they can go a lot further to feed a family as long as you cook them the right way.

Gigot chops that are half the price of loin chops, and shoulder of lamb, as opposed to a more expensive leg of lamb, are also growing in popularity.

Butchers are responding to people’s changing tastes by offering consumers advice and recipes for cooking these cuts, because they need long, slow cooking to make them tender, Lang added in a Irish Independent report.

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