Panada or panado is a variety of bread soup found in some Western European and Southern European cuisines and consisting of stale bread boiled to a pulp in water or other liquids.
[1] A version of panada was a favorite dish of the author Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was a vegetarian.
[3] In French cuisine, it is often enriched with butter, milk, cream, or egg yolk.
[4] In northeast Italy, it serves as an inexpensive meal in the poor areas of the countryside.
In Spanish cuisine, it is made by boiling bread in water or milk and adding flavoring.