Name: Potato Croquettes En Surprise
Ingredients: potato croquette mixture; creamed chicken, shrimps, or peas; bread crumbs; deep fat for frying

Why it works: Potato and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,756 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

Potato Croquettes En Surprise

Ingredients

potato croquette mixture
creamed chicken, shrimps, or peas
bread crumbs
deep fat for frying

Directions

Make the potato croquette mixture, omitting parsley.
Shape the mixture into small nests and fill with creamed chicken, shrimps, or peas.
Cover the nests with more croquette mixture and shape into croquettes.
Dip the croquettes in bread crumbs, then in egg, and again in bread crumbs.
Fry in deep fat until golden brown and drain on paper towels.

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.

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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.

Potato + chickentop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,756 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).
Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,258 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).
Potato + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together434 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).