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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook thick minestrone with homemade pancetta using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Thick Minestrone with Homemade Pancetta:

1. Take 2 slice Homemade pancetta or store-bought bacon
2. Make ready 1 Onion (diced)
3. Take 1/2 Carrot (diced)
4. Get 1 Celery (chop stalk and leaf separately)
5. Prepare 1 pack Maitake mushrooms
6. Make ready 1 ☆Bay leaf
7. Take 1 enough to cover ☆Water
8. Make ready 1 ladleful ☆White wine
9. Take 1/2 ladleful ☆Cooking sake
10. Take 2 ☆Chicken stock cubes
11. Make ready 400 grams ★Diced and canned tomatoes (separate the tomatoes from the juice)
12. Prepare 1/2 ladleful ★Ketchup
13. Make ready 1 dash ★Japanese Worcestershire-style sauce

Essentially, minestrone is a thick, hearty variety of vegetable soup, thanks to the addition of beans and sometimes pasta or rice. I often skip the pancetta, and substitute whatever melange of vegetables I have in the crisper drawer. This homemade pancetta–unsmoked bacon (pork belly)–is cured with salt, sugar, pepper, juniper Pancetta is sorta like Italian bacon. It's pork belly cured with salt and seasonings which is then rolled If it feels firm at its thickest point, it's cured.

Instructions to make Thick Minestrone with Homemade Pancetta:

1. Sauté the pancetta in a pan. Saute until golden brown; discard any excess oil. When using store-bought bacon, sauté with olive oil.
2. Transfer the cooked pancetta to a bowl. Into the empty pan, add the diced onion, carrot, and bite-sized celery stem and sauté.
3. When everything is cooked evenly, return the pancetta to the pan. Add enough water to cover the ingredients, and bring to a boil.
4. When it comes to a boil, add the celery leaves, bay leaf, and the ☆ ingredients (white wine, cooking sake, and chicken stock cubes) and bring to a boil again.
5. After bringing the mixture to a boil, add the ★ ingredients (canned diced tomatoes, ketchup, and the Japanese Worcestershire-style sauce) to simmer. Taste and season with salt, if necessary. You've finished!
6. Transfer to individual a serving dishes. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese, black pepper, and parsley to taste. Enjoy!

Make this minestrone soup with pancetta, macaroni, fennel and peas for a hearty lunch or easy midweek dinner. Serve with pesto and crusty bread. Here is an easy recipe to make Homemade Pancetta! Skip the nitrates and the curing process, with the right aromatics it tastes just like the original! If you're interested in making homemade pancetta, but don't know much about curing meats (like me!), you'll love this simple homemade pancetta recipe!

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