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Pancetta (Italian pronunciation: [panˈtʃetta]) is a salumi made of pork belly meat that is salt cured. Pancetta in Italy is typically cooked to add depth to soups and pastas. Pancetta is seasoned, salt-cured meat made from pork belly. An Italian invention, pancetta is a versatile ingredient: It can be used to add depth and flavor to soups and pastas or served as a cold cut on a sandwich.
Pancetta is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Pancetta is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have pancetta using 1 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pancetta:
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Homemade pancetta is incredibly easy to make. Using the freshest, and best quality pork that you can find is the most important step, the rest is easy as pie! #pancetta #italian #italianfood #recipe Pancetta is an Italian form of bacon. It is pork belly that has been salt cured and spiced, and dried for about three months (but usually not smoked). There are many varieties and each part of Italy produces its own type.
Steps to make Pancetta:
- 2.5 LBS pork belly – Skin removed. - 28.15g Kosher Salt - 14.06g Sugar - 9g Garlic Powder - 4.15g Black pepper - 3g Dry Rosemary - 2g Corriander seed - 2g Nutmeg - 1.5g Mace - 0.55g Cinnamon - 0.55g Cloves
- Mix cure – combine salt, sugar, spices and cure. Grind to a fine powder in spice grinder. Divide in half. - - Add the Pepper, Mace and garlic powder to one of the divided portions of the cure. - - Rub 80% of the cure mix without the pepper, mace and garlic into the meat side of the belly and 20% on the fat side. Good Idea to wear latex gloves to do this. - - Put the meat in a zip lock or vac bag, seal and put into fridge for 4 day. Flip the meat every 24 hours so the brine moves around the meat.
- After the 4 days remove meat from fridge and bag and add the remaining cure spice mix. Rub 80% on meat side, 20% on the fat side. Reseal in zip lock or vac bag and put in fridge for another 4 days. flip over meat every 24 hours. - - Remove meat from bag and rinse in clod water to remove any cure and spices. - - Roll and tie the belly as tight as possible. Avoid air gaps in the roll as it can lead to spoilage. - - wrap the roll loosely in cheese cloth (natural undyed cloth is best). Tie each end.
- Weigh the meat and hang at 15C or 60F and relative humidity at 65 to 75%. - - The Pancetta will be ready when the meat has 20% to 25% water loss (weight loss). - - To be safe cook the Pancetta - A great recipe for pancetta is Carbonara. Enjoy!
It is pork belly that has been salt cured and spiced, and dried for about three months (but usually not smoked). There are many varieties and each part of Italy produces its own type. Pancetta is sometimes sold sliced paper thin, or cubed. The thin slices can be wrapped around vegetables or meat before cooking. The pancetta cubes are often used like bacon, sautéed with onions or garlic to form the base of a soup, pasta, or risotto.
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