Name: Chicken Panada
Ingredients: 1 cup cooked chicken, pounded; 1 cup broth; 1/2 cup bread crumbs; 1 cup mashed potatoes; 1 cup mashed green vegetables

Why it works: Chicken and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,756 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

Chicken Panada

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

Warm the broth in a saucepan.
Add the pounded chicken to the broth and stir until heated through.
Mix in the bread crumbs until well combined.

Serve

Serve with mashed potatoes and mashed green vegetables.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Chicken + potatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,756 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).
Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,258 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).
Bread + potatotop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together434 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken: Provides the main protein and savory body of the soup.
Bread crumbs: Absorb liquid and thicken the broth, giving the soup a heartier texture.
Mashed potatoes: Add starch and creaminess when served alongside the soup.
Mashed green vegetables: Add color, body and vegetable flavor when served with the soup.