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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have thick minestrone with homemade pancetta using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Thick Minestrone with Homemade Pancetta:

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

Steps 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!

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