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Chicken Croquettes

A fried dish of ground chicken mixed with almonds, parsley, and spices, coated in 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 the ground chicken, chopped almonds, parsley, salt, onion juice, and pepper with white sauce.

  2. Mold the mixture into shapes.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll each shape in cracker crumbs and then in beaten eggs.

  2. Fry in deep 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

Chicken
Forms the main body of the croquette and provides the savory filling.
White sauce
Binds the chopped ingredients together so the mixture holds its shape when molded.
Almonds
Add crunch and nutty flavor to the soft filling.
Eggs
Form a coating that helps the cracker crumbs stick and brown during frying.
Cracker crumbs
Create a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Fry in deep oil until golden brown. The shaped mixture is soft and held together only by the sauce and coating. If the oil is not hot enough, the coating absorbs grease and may fall apart; if too hot, the outside browns before the filling is heated through.

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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