the panade for a ground meat sauce came to me a zillion years ago on the first season of America's Test Kitchen when they made a meat sauce using ground beef etc
for the meat portion. the panade was said to keep the ground meat clumps tender , even thought they were small clumps.
the sauce always turned out excellent so Ive always done that w ground meat.
this gives you an idea :
http://www.food.com/recipe/easy-meat-sauce-americas-test-kitchen-357363
click on the ' more' to see well , more !
the original Rx used cream in the meat mixture on low heat to form a panade-ish bonds I can't ref that Rx as its behind their pay-wall
then there is this re : starch.and pressure cooking
three is also one interesting work re Potato starch and the IP :
http://www.hippressurecooking.com/pressure-cooker-potato-nutrition/
note this transformation , if you are after that sort of thing , is after cooling.