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Chicken Panada

Chicken Panada is a dish of finely chopped roasted chicken mixed with bread crumbs and liquid, served in a custard cup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 the chicken

  1. Remove the breasts from the roasted chicken and chop the meat finely.

  2. Pound the chopped chicken and pass it through a colander.

Bind and serve

  1. Soak the bread crumbs in tepid milk, then squeeze them nearly dry.

  2. Mix the soaked bread with the chicken.

  3. Thin the mixture with strong chicken broth or boiling water as needed.

  4. Add parsley for convalescents if desired.

  5. Serve in a custard cup and eat with a spoon.

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

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  4. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + parsleytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,314 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

Roasted chicken
Provides the main protein and savoury flavour of the dish.
Bread crumbs
Soaked in milk and mixed in, they give the mixture body and a soft, smooth texture.
Milk
Softens the bread crumbs so they blend evenly into the chicken.
Chicken broth or boiling water
Thins the mixture to a soft, spoonable consistency.

The step that matters

Squeeze the soaked bread nearly dry. Bread soaked in milk holds a lot of liquid. Squeezing out the excess keeps the mixture from becoming watery, so the thinning liquid can be controlled and the texture stays smooth and spoonable.

Swap the parsley

The recipe marks parsley as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, bread, milk):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, bread, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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