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Chicken Croquettes

A fried roll of seasoned chicken mixed with cream sauce and breaded.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine chopped chicken, salt, pepper, lemon juice, and parsley.

  2. Prepare a thick cream sauce and mix in the beaten egg once thick.

  3. Combine the sauce with the chicken mixture, making it soft enough to handle.

Shape and coat

  1. Once cool, shape the mixture into rolls.

  2. Roll each croquette in fine bread crumbs, dip in beaten egg, and coat with crumbs again.

Fry

  1. Fry in smoking hot fat for one minute 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.

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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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

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 the bulk of the filling's flavor and body.
Cream sauce
Binds the chicken into a soft mixture that holds its shape when cooled and rolled.
Beaten egg
Binds the filling and, as a dip, helps the bread crumbs adhere to the outside.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture before shaping. A warm, soft filling is too loose to roll and will slump or split. Cooling firms the sauce so the croquettes hold their shape through breading and frying.

“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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