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Croquettes of Chicken

A fried dish of chicken and ham coated in breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Ham and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,536 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Croquettes of Chicken

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Mix the chopped chicken and ham in a saucepan with the Cream Bechamel Sauce and warm it up.

  2. Pour the mixture into a flat dish.

  3. Let the mixture cool completely.

  4. Cut the cooled mixture into various shapes, such as cutlets or cork-like pieces.

Coat and fry

  1. Dust a board with flour and roll the shapes in flour.

  2. Brush the shapes with the beaten egg.

  3. Roll the coated shapes in the bread crumbs until fully covered.

  4. Arrange the croquettes in a frying basket and fry in boiling lard for 2 minutes, ensuring they are fully submerged.

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.

  1. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  2. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Chicken + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold chicken breast
Provides the main body and bulk of the croquette filling.
Cream bechamel sauce
Binds the chicken and ham and makes the filling moist and creamy.
Lean ham
Adds savory flavor and salty depth to the filling.
Egg
Coats the shapes so the crumbs stick and help form a crisp, set crust.
Bread crumbs
Forms a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture completely before shaping. A warm, soft bechamel filling cannot hold its shape and may burst or slump through the coating. Cooling firms the sauce so the pieces keep their form and the crumbs adhere well.

“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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