date: 2020-10-12T06:50:51.475Z image: https://img-global.cpcdn.com/recipes/5401627025997824/751x532cq70/home-made-pancetta-recipe-main-photo.jpg thumbnail: https://img-global.cpcdn.com/recipes/5401627025997824/751x532cq70/home-made-pancetta-recipe-main-photo.jpg cover: https://img-global.cpcdn.com/recipes/5401627025997824/751x532cq70/home-made-pancetta-recipe-main-photo.jpg author: Victor Delgado ratingvalue: 5 reviewcount: 1748 recipeingredient: - "5 salt" - " black pepper" - "1 juniper berries" - "1 fresh thyme" - " ground nutmeg" - "5 bay leaf" - "1 brown sugar" - "1 pork belly" recipeinstructions: - "Take the pork belly and cut the skin off if it is still on" - "Salt is important in this cured meat. You need 5% salt to weight ratio. Weigh your meat and calculate how much salt you will need for that weight." - "Lightly bruise the juniper berries in a mortar and pestle with the black pepper and thyme. Add all dry ingredients to create a dry rub." - "Use a plastic bag or tupperware to cure this meat in the dry rub. Add equal parts of rub on both sides. Do not use a metal container as it does have acidic properties when reacting to meat." - "Let this mixture cure over time. For every 500 grams of meat you will let it cure for 3 days. If your meat is 2687 grams you will be waiting quite a while." - "After it has cured, you will need to wash the excess spices it cured in off. At this point you may reseason with the same spice mixture." - "Dry off the meat. You will now take your meat and roll it tight and secure it in butcher's twine. Tie it as tight possible so it maintains the rolled shape. You can wrap this in cheese cloth to ensure it has a protective barrier but I don't do this." - "This meat will hang in your refrigerator for three weeks to allow the enzymes to metabolize. Make sure to hang it length wise and not side ways. Temperature should not be 60 degrees to 71 degrees Fahrenheit if you decide to hang it in your basement in the winter." - "After three weeks you can now eat this. If you did it right you will see white mold on the outside area. This mold is good and has protected your meat. If you have black or green mold that is dripping liquid you have contaminated your meat by not letting it sit in the right temperature." - "Slice it thin and serve or use it as bacon to add to pastas and several other dishes." categories: - Recipe tags: - home - made - pancetta katakunci: home made pancetta nutrition: 297 calories recipecuisine: American preptime: "PT36M" cooktime: "PT43M" recipeyield: "3" recipecategory: Lunch ---  Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a special dish, home made pancetta. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious. This homemade pancetta-unsmoked bacon (pork belly)-is cured with salt, sugar, pepper, juniper berries, bay leaves, nutmeg, and thyme. It's an ingredient in many Italian pasta dishes such as carbonara and as a substitute for guanciale in all'Amatriciana, which can be hard to find. Homemade pancetta is incredibly easy to make. Using the freshest, and best quality pork belly that you can find is the most important criteria, the rest is easy as pie! (Actually, it's much easier than making a pie!) Did you ever think that you could make your own pancetta? Home Made Pancetta is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Home Made Pancetta is something which I've loved my entire life. To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook home made pancetta using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that. ##### The ingredients needed to make Home Made Pancetta: 1. Take 5 salt 1. Make ready black pepper 1. Take 1 juniper berries 1. Prepare 1 fresh thyme 1. Get ground nutmeg 1. Take 5 bay leaf 1. Prepare 1 brown sugar 1. Prepare 1 pork belly 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. ##### Instructions to make Home Made Pancetta: 1. Take the pork belly and cut the skin off if it is still on 1. Salt is important in this cured meat. You need 5% salt to weight ratio. Weigh your meat and calculate how much salt you will need for that weight. 1. Lightly bruise the juniper berries in a mortar and pestle with the black pepper and thyme. Add all dry ingredients to create a dry rub. 1. Use a plastic bag or tupperware to cure this meat in the dry rub. Add equal parts of rub on both sides. Do not use a metal container as it does have acidic properties when reacting to meat. 1. Let this mixture cure over time. For every 500 grams of meat you will let it cure for 3 days. If your meat is 2687 grams you will be waiting quite a while. 1. After it has cured, you will need to wash the excess spices it cured in off. At this point you may reseason with the same spice mixture. 1. Dry off the meat. You will now take your meat and roll it tight and secure it in butcher's twine. Tie it as tight possible so it maintains the rolled shape. You can wrap this in cheese cloth to ensure it has a protective barrier but I don't do this. 1. This meat will hang in your refrigerator for three weeks to allow the enzymes to metabolize. Make sure to hang it length wise and not side ways. Temperature should not be 60 degrees to 71 degrees Fahrenheit if you decide to hang it in your basement in the winter. 1. After three weeks you can now eat this. If you did it right you will see white mold on the outside area. This mold is good and has protected your meat. If you have black or green mold that is dripping liquid you have contaminated your meat by not letting it sit in the right temperature. 1. Slice it thin and serve or use it as bacon to add to pastas and several other dishes. 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. Be forewarned: Pancetta is quite possibly the gateway drug. The melt-in-your-mouth quality paired with simplicity and gratification of making your own at home, will have you hooked. Before you know it you'll be butchering a pig and building your own curing chamber for your next salumi project—or at least you'll never buy the cheap store-bought stuff again. So that is going to wrap this up for this special food home made pancetta recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I'm sure you can make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!