What Pancita means
Pancita is a Mexican soup or stew name of Spanish origin meaning "little belly". It is built from Spanish panza (belly, paunch) and -ita (diminutive). It is pronounced pan-SEE-tah, and it is most associated with Mexico City.
The central Mexican name for tripe soup, where the north says menudo. Same organ, different diminutive.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: Pozole, menudo, birria, caldo. Mexican soup names are blunt and descriptive: menudo means "the small things", the offal that goes in it, and pozole comes from a Nahuatl word for foam, describing how the hominy blooms open as it cooks.
