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Chicken Croquettes

A fried patty of ground chicken, mushrooms, bread crumbs, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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, pick the meat, and grind it with the mushrooms.

  2. Soak the bread crumbs in the broth, then add the melted butter, eggs, and seasonings.

  3. Mix thoroughly and cook in a double boiler.

Shape and fry

  1. Let cool (overnight if possible), shape the mixture, chill, and dip in egg.

  2. Coat with bread crumbs and fry in deep fat.

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 bulk and protein that the croquette holds together.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the broth and bind the mixture so it holds its shape.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and form a coating that helps the crumbs stick.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the filling.
Broth
Moistens the bread crumbs and adds savory flavor to the filling.

The step that matters

Let cool and chill before shaping. A warm, soft mixture is too loose to hold its shape. Cooling and chilling firm the fats and binders so the croquettes keep their form and do not break apart in the fat.

Swap the celery

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

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

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