method
1. Skin and bone the chicken meat or joint.
2. Mince the meat finely.
3. Grease the inside of a heatproof pot or jar with butter and put in the minced meat.
4. Cover tightly, stand in a pan of simmering water at least 10cm deep, and cook for 1 hour.
5. Top up with more boiling water if required during cooking.
6. Let the pot or jar cool for 5 minutes.
7. Remove the chicken meat and pound it with any liquid in the jar, or process it briefly in an electric blender.
8. Season to taste.
9. Beat the egg until liquid, and mix most of it slowly and thoroughly into the cooled panada.
10. Mix with the pounded chicken.
11. Re-season if required.
serving amount
enough for 20 cocktail vol-au-vents or 8 pancakes
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