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Potato and Cheese Croquettes

A fried snack of mashed potatoes mixed with cheese, seasoned, shaped, breaded, and deep‑fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Potato and Cheese Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine hot riced potatoes, grated cheese, salt, cayenne, onion juice, heavy cream, and the beaten egg yolk.

  2. Mix until light and fluffy.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into pyramids or cones.

  2. Roll each shape in breadcrumbs, then dip in the beaten egg white, and roll in breadcrumbs again.

Fry and drain

  1. Fry in deep fat until golden brown and drain on brown paper.

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Potato + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together959 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 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

Riced potatoes
Form the soft bulk of the croquette and absorb the cream and cheese for a smooth interior.
Grated mild cheese
Adds richness and flavor and helps bind the mixture as it melts.
Heavy cream
Adds moisture and fat, keeping the potato mixture tender rather than dry.
Egg
Yolk enriches and binds the filling; beaten white creates a coating that helps breadcrumbs stick.

The step that matters

Coating with breadcrumbs and egg white. The beaten egg white must fully cover each shape before the second breadcrumb roll, otherwise the crumbs can fall off or leave bare spots that open during frying and let the soft filling escape.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, cheese, pepper, cream, egg):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, cheese, pepper, cream, egg. 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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