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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes are small fried patties made from ground chicken, almonds, parsley, and spices, coated in cracker crumbs and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix ground chicken, almonds, parsley, salt, onion juice, and pepper with white sauce.

  2. Mold the mixture into shapes.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll in cracker crumbs and dip in beaten eggs.

  2. Fry in 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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Almond + parsleytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together548 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground chicken
Forms the main body of the croquettes, giving them their meaty filling.
White sauce
Binds the chicken and almonds together so the mixture holds its shape when molded.
Cracker crumbs
Forms a crisp outer coating that browns during frying.
Eggs
Bind the cracker crumb coating to the molded mixture as it sets.
Chopped almonds
Add crunch and nutty flavor to the soft filling.

The step that matters

Fry in hot oil until golden brown. Hot oil quickly sets and browns the egg and cracker crumb coating, sealing the croquette so it stays crisp outside while the filling heats through without the coating absorbing excess oil.

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, parsley, onion, pepper, sauce, egg):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Black-eyed peafits better
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, parsley, onion, pepper, sauce, 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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