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Rice and Cheese Croquettes

A fried croquette made from cold boiled rice, cheese, and a butter‑flour‑milk mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Rice and Cheese Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Melt the butter in a saucepan.

  2. Stir in the flour, milk, salt, and paprika until smooth.

  3. Add the grated cheese and cold boiled rice, mixing well.

Shape and coat

  1. Once the mixture is cold, form it into croquettes.

  2. Beat the egg with water and brush it over the croquettes.

  3. Roll the croquettes in sifted bread crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry the croquettes in deep hot oil until golden brown.

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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds fat and richness, and helps carry flavour through the base.
Flour
Thickens the milk into a smooth binding paste that holds the rice and cheese together.
Milk
Forms the liquid that the flour thickens into a creamy binder.
Cheese
Adds savoury flavour and some stickiness that helps the mixture bind.
Cold boiled rice
Provides the bulk and body of the croquette filling.
Egg
Forms a coating that helps bread crumbs stick and browns during frying.

The step that matters

Chill the mixture before shaping. A cold, firm mixture holds its shape when rolled. If it is still warm and soft, the croquettes can slump or split and may burst open in hot oil.

“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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