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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes made with seasoned chicken, cream sauce, and bread crumbs, fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Season the chopped chicken with salt, cayenne pepper, parsley, and lemon juice.

  2. Make a thick cream sauce and mix in the beaten egg.

  3. Combine the sauce with the chicken until soft enough to handle.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll the mixture in fine bread crumbs.

  2. Dip the rolled mixture in beaten egg.

  3. Roll the egg-coated mixture again in bread crumbs.

  4. Fry in a basket for one minute 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.

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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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the main bulk and savory flavor of the filling.
Thick cream sauce
Adds moisture and binds the chopped chicken into a shapeable mass.
Beaten egg
Helps the bread crumbs adhere and sets to form a sturdy coating.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden exterior when fried.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor of the chicken.

The step that matters

Double-coating with egg and bread crumbs. The egg and crumb layers form a continuous shell that holds the soft filling together. Gaps in the coating let the filling leak into hot fat and break apart during frying.

“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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