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Croquettes De Riz

Rice croquettes made from cooked rice, lemon zest, sugar, salt, orange flower water, butter, egg yolks, beaten egg, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Croquettes De Riz

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine the cooked rice, lemon zest, powdered sugar, salt, orange flower water, and butter.

  2. Mix in the egg yolks without boiling the mixture.

  3. Spread the mixture on a flat surface and let it cool.

Shape and coat

  1. Once cooled, cut it into equal small pieces and shape them into oval balls.

  2. Dip each ball in the beaten egg, then roll in breadcrumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the croquettes until golden brown.

  2. Drain and serve hot, sprinkled with sugar.

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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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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Rice + orangetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Lemon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Cooked rice
Forms the bulk of the croquette and holds its shape once cooled.
Egg yolks
Add richness and bind the mixture into a cohesive dough.
Butter
Adds fat for a tender texture and rich flavour.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the croquettes brown in frying.
Lemon zest
Adds bright aroma that complements the sweetness.

The step that matters

Mix in the egg yolks without boiling the mixture. Egg yolks thicken and can scramble if the mixture gets too hot, leaving a grainy texture instead of a smooth, bindable base.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, lemon, sugar, egg, butter):

  1. Vanillafits about as well
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Orangethe original
  4. Figfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, lemon, sugar, egg, butter. 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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