# French Panade

A French Panade is essentially a stuffing-like dish, perfect for using up stale bread, and can be customized with various ingredients.

- Total time: 70 min
- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- Stale bread
- White wine
- Chicken stock
- Butter
- Anchovy
- Leeks
- Cabbage
- Tarragon
- Pepper
- Salt
- Gruyère or Cheddar cheese
- Parmesan cheese

## Instructions

1. Cut the stale bread into big chunks.
2. Soak the bread in a mixture of white wine and chicken stock.
3. Let the bread sit for about 20 minutes to soak.
4. Melt some butter in a pan.
5. Add anchovy to the melted butter and let them dissolve.
6. Add cleaned and chopped leeks to the pan with the dissolved anchovy and cook on medium-low for about 10 minutes.
7. Butter a roasting pan.
8. Place chopped cabbage into the buttered roasting pan.
9. Wring out the soaked bread slightly and add it to the roasting pan with the cabbage.
10. Add tarragon to the pan.
11. Add the cooked leeks to the pan.
12. Season with freshly cracked pepper and salt.
13. Mix all ingredients in the pan by hand.
14. Pour back some of the reserved liquid from soaking the bread into the mixture.
15. Sprinkle grated Gruyère or cheddar cheese over the mixture.
16. Dust with Parmesan cheese.
17. Dot the top with some butter.
18. Wrap the pan tightly with foil and place into a 375°F oven for 30 minutes.
19. After 30 minutes, remove the tinfoil.
20. Place the pan back into the oven at 410°F for another 30 minutes, or until the top is golden and crispy (the video shows it cooking for 40 minutes in total after removing the foil).
21. Serve and enjoy the panade.

## Equipment

- Roasting pan
- Bowl
- Strainer
- Spoon
- Spatula
- Oven

## Tips

- This dish is part of the French Peasant Food Series.
- If stuffing is your favorite side dish on Thanksgiving, you'll love this.
- The key to this dish is stale bread.
- You can really add whatever you like to it; many are made like a French onion soup, but this version is good for warmer months.
- Serve with roast chicken and a simple green salad.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hasd1w/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/ebac137f-7087-42f8-9cab-6bc106382cdc
- Extracted: 2025-07-13

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