I cooked Cupim this week.
Cupim is a brazilian cut of meat found in Zebu Ox .
It's a nicely render fat meat and wonderfull taste, but if cooked in a pan or fast in high temperature, the meat becomes very hard.
The brazilian way to cook cupim is in barbecue grill for several hours envolved in cellophane paper.
I tried in sous vide for the first time and the results was very good.
Cleaning the silver skin and excess fat.
Front side of the Cupim have a nice render fat in the meat and the back side is less faty.
Look the nice fat meat.
I seasoned with salt, pownder garlic an pownder onion.
85 celsius degree for 24 hours. I believe that is too much. I want to try 80 degrees for 24 hours.
After sous vide 250 degrees in the oven. And done.
Served with Farofa de Banana, a tapioca roasted powder with banana, onion, celery, and fried potatoes. And grilled vegetables in olive oil and salt.
The result was a melt in mouth meat.
http://vid31.photobucket.com/albums/c395/aurote/cupim12_zpsdpewl5fq.mp4