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Chicken Panada

A thick chicken and bread soup made by simmering chicken, breadcrumbs, and broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Chicken Panada

Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Chicken Panada

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the breadcrumbs in enough milk to cover them.

  2. Cut the chicken into small pieces, discarding bones and gristle, and chop finely.

  3. Press the soaked breadcrumbs through a coarse strainer into a pan with the chopped chicken.

Cook

  1. Pour in the broth, skimming off any fat, then add the salt and pepper.

  2. Boil for 1 minute until the mixture is the consistency of thick gruel.

  3. Optionally season with celery salt or add 2 tablespoons of sweet cream.

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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Explore the science

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.

  1. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Chicken + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Chicken + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  5. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken meat
Provides the main protein and savory flavor that defines the filling.
Bread soaked in milk
Adds body and binds the mixture, thickening it as it absorbs liquid.
Chicken broth
Adds moisture and flavor, loosening the mixture to a thick gruel consistency.

The step that matters

Boil for 1 minute until the mixture is the consistency of thick gruel. Boiling briefly lets the soaked bread starch thicken the liquid. Too little cooking leaves it thin and runny, while overcooking can make it stiff and pasty.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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