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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes made with shredded chicken, mushrooms, bread crumbs, and seasonings, fried in lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the chicken until tender, then let it cool.

  2. Remove the meat from the bones and chop or grind it with the mushrooms.

  3. Soak the bread crumbs in the chicken broth.

  4. Add the butter, chopped onion, and eggs to the mixture and mix well.

  5. Season with celery seed, salt, pepper, and chopped parsley.

Shape and fry

  1. When cool, shape the mixture into pear shapes and insert a whole clove for the stem.

  2. Drop the croquettes into boiling lard to fry until golden.

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

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

  2. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  5. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Provides the main protein and bulk of the croquette filling.
Bread crumbs
Soaked in broth to absorb liquid and give the filling body and softness.
Eggs
Bind the mixture so the croquettes hold their shape when fried.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the filling.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavor and moisture to the chopped chicken filling.
Chicken broth
Moistens the bread crumbs and keeps the filling tender.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. A warm, soft mixture is hard to shape and may slump or split. Cooling firms the binding from the eggs and crumbs so the croquettes hold their form in the hot lard.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mushroom, bread, butter, onion, egg, pepper):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, bread, butter, onion, egg, pepper. 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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