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Chicken Croquettes

A fried chicken croquette made with seasoned chicken, cream, egg, and breadcrumbs, served with a thin cream sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon 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 mixture

  1. Combine the chicken, salt, celery salt, cayenne pepper, white pepper, onion juice, parsley, and lemon juice in a bowl.

  2. Make a very thick cream sauce and stir in the beaten egg.

  3. Mix the sauce with the chicken until it is soft enough to handle.

  4. Spread the mixture on a shallow plate to cool, then shape into rolls.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll the croquettes in fine crumbs.

  2. Dip the croquettes in beaten egg.

  3. Fry in smoking hot oil until golden brown.

  4. Drain and serve with a thin cream sauce.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

  5. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the main body of the croquette and gives its savory flavor.
Cream
Makes a thick sauce that binds the chicken and keeps the filling moist.
Egg
Enriches the sauce and, as a dip, helps the crumbs adhere to the outside.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich chicken and cream flavor.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture until firm before shaping. A thick cream sauce must cool and set enough to hold its shape. If shaped while soft, the croquettes can slump or split, and they may burst or leak oil when fried.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, celery, pepper, onion, parsley, lemon, cream):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, celery, pepper, onion, parsley, lemon, cream. 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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