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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes are fried rolls of chicken and mushroom mixture coated in cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Melt butter in a saucepan.

  2. Stir in flour until bubbling.

  3. Combine stock, cream, and liquor in a measuring cup to make 1 cup.

  4. Pour the mixture into the saucepan.

  5. Stir until a thick sauce forms.

  6. Add chopped chicken, mushrooms, pepper, salt, and lemon juice. Stir well.

  7. Remove from heat.

Shape and chill

  1. Spread the mixture on buttered plates.

  2. Chill until firm.

  3. Cut into strips.

  4. Shape into rolls or small pears.

Bread and fry

  1. Roll each croquette in cracker crumbs.

  2. Dip in beaten egg mixed with water.

  3. Roll again in crumbs.

  4. Heat oil until very hot.

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

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

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Enriches the flour roux that thickens the sauce and adds richness.
Flour
Forms a roux with the butter that thickens the stock and cream into a sauce.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture to the sauce, giving a softer, smoother texture.
Egg
Beaten egg coats the croquettes so the cracker crumbs adhere and form a crisp crust.
Cracker crumbs
Form the crisp, golden outer coating when fried.

The step that matters

Chill until firm. The sauce must be fully set before shaping; a warm or soft mixture will slump and break apart, and the crumb coating will not hold.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, mushroom, butter, flour, cream, oyster, pepper):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Grapefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, butter, flour, cream, oyster, pepper. 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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