Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, home-made pancetta made from thinly sliced pork. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Not long ago, I bought a pound of pork belly and got to thinking about making my own pancetta. Pancetta is the Italian cousin of bacon, made by curing pork belly with salt and aromatics, but not smoked. I considered the traditional dry cure route (Michael Ruhlman's cookbook is a wealth of information on making cured meats). But it's something I haven't dabbled in before.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have home-made pancetta made from thinly sliced pork using 4 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Home-made Pancetta Made from Thinly Sliced Pork:

1. Get 200 grams Thin sliced pork
2. Prepare 1 Crazy Salt or Herb Salt
3. Make ready 1 Salt and pepper
4. Take 1 Your choice of herbs (can be omitted)

If you are feeling particularly adventurous, you can buy a whole belly, cut it in half widthwise, then double the spice mixture to make two slabs of pancetta. Pancetta is sorta like Italian bacon. It's pork belly cured with salt and seasonings which is then rolled into a log and hung to dry for a couple weeks rather than being smoked. It's typically thinly sliced or diced and then sautéed to add complexity to other dishes.

Instructions to make Home-made Pancetta Made from Thinly Sliced Pork:

1. Cut the pork belly so that it can fit on a paper towel. Wrap your cutting board in plastic wrap, and cover with a paper towel.
2. Sprinkle the paper towel evenly with the crazy salt.
3. Line the strips of pork belly over the salt. Don't overlap the slices.
4. Sprinkle the slices evenly with salt and pepper.
5. Cover the pork slices with a paper towel, and then cover the whole thing with plastic wrap. Make sure to remove as much air as you can while wrapping, and seal the plastic wrap airtight.
6. Put the sealed pork slices in the refrigerator for 12 hours, or overnight. Now you have pancetta.
7. If you want a richer flavour, put the pork slices between 2 or 3 sheets of paper towel, and let it rest for up to 3 days. The key is to make sure the meat is sealed airtight, and has enough paper towel to soak up any liquid.
8. This pancetta shouldn't be eaten raw, so make sure to cook it before eating.
9. I wrapped it around green beans, and then fried it.
10. Peel some shrimp and wrap it in the pancetta.

It's pork belly cured with salt and seasonings which is then rolled into a log and hung to dry for a couple weeks rather than being smoked. It's typically thinly sliced or diced and then sautéed to add complexity to other dishes. If you like, you can ask your butcher to remove the skin for you, making the total prep time minimal. Pork fares best in the freezer if packaged with freezer-friendly materials like waxed paper, aluminum foil, or heavy-duty plastic bags. 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.

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