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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes are small fried balls of seasoned chicken mixed with milk, butter, flour, and egg, coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the chopped chicken, parsley, onion, salt, and pepper.

  2. Scald the milk in a saucepan, then stir in the butter and flour until smooth.

  3. Allow the mixture to cool, then add it to the chicken mixture and mix well.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into balls.

  2. Roll each ball in the beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs.

  3. Fry the croquettes 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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the bulk of the filling and gives the croquettes their main flavor and body.
Flour
Thickens the milk and butter into a binding paste that holds the filling together.
Milk
Combines with the flour and butter to form a creamy sauce that keeps the filling moist.
Egg
Binds the breaded coating so the bread crumbs stick and form a crisp shell.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Cool the filling before shaping. If the white sauce is still warm and loose, the mixture will not hold its shape and may split or fall apart in the oil. Cooling lets the starch set so the balls keep their form through breading and frying.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, parsley, pepper, milk, butter, flour, egg):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, parsley, pepper, milk, butter, flour, 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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