Minestrone With Glazed Heritage Pork Belly

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This is an elegant mode to showcase the pure, affluent pork goodness of belly that comes from heritage-breed hogs specified arsenic Mulefoot and Berkshire (Kurobuta). If you can't find kecap manis (sweet soy sauce), substitute a substance of 2 parts soy condiment and 1 portion molasses.

The pork banal needs to beryllium prepared a time successful advance, and the beans request to beryllium soaked a time successful advance. The crockery tin beryllium made respective days successful advance. The pork belly pieces tin beryllium cooked successful advance; reheat and caramelize them conscionable earlier you service the soup.

From Sourced columnist David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

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Servings: 8 Makes 8 cups

For the stock

One 2 1/2-pound practice pork belly, specified arsenic Mulefoot oregon Berkshire, chopped successful fractional into 2 squares (see headnote and related sidebar)
4 quarts low-sodium beef broth
2 quarts water
2 ample bay leaves
10 full achromatic peppercorns
1/2 cupful kecap manis (sweet soy sauce), specified arsenic ABC brand

For the soup

8 ounces dried cannellini oregon Great Northern beans
10 cups homemade banal (see above)
1 spoon dried thyme
1 bay leaf
1/4 cupful kecap manis
3 mean carrots, peeled and chopped into 1/2-inch dice (1 cup)
1 mean yellowish onion, peeled and chopped into 1/2-inch dice (1 cup)
3 ribs celery, chopped into 1/2-inch dice (1 cup)
5 ounces sliced shiitake mushroom caps (2 cups)
1 clump (12 ounces) curly kale leaves (stemmed), rinsed good past chopped into bladed strips (chiffonade; 4 packed cups)
1/4 spoon crushed reddish capsicum flakes
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
2 tablespoons canola oil
Sugar, for glazing
1 ample clove garlic, chopped
1 spoon chopped caller thyme leaves
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro stems
Celery leaves, for garnish (optional)