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Chicken Croquettes a l'Itauenne

Chicken croquettes made with cooked chicken, mushrooms, and herbs, served with white Italian sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes a l'Itauenne

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Melt butter in a pan and sauté minced onion until soft.

  2. Add flour to make a thick sauce, then stir in salt, pepper, nutmeg, lemon juice, and parsley.

  3. Mix in the finely cut chicken and mushrooms, then let cool.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into rolls or shapes, then coat in bread crumbs.

  2. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the croquettes until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with white Italian sauce.

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

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

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken
Forms the main body of the filling, giving the croquettes their savory bulk.
Butter
Enriches the filling and carries the flavor of the sautéed onion.
Flour
Thickens the butter and liquid into a sauce that binds the filling so it holds its shape.
Raw egg yolks
Bind the filling and help it set firm when cooked.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp outer coating that browns during frying.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and earthy flavor to the filling.

The step that matters

Cooling the filling before shaping. A warm, loose filling will not hold its shape and can split or slump when breaded and fried. Letting it cool and firm up lets the starch-thickened sauce set so the croquettes keep their form.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mushroom, butter, flour, pepper, nutmeg, lemon):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, butter, flour, pepper, nutmeg, lemon. 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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