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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes are fried rolls of chicken, mushrooms or oysters, butter, flour, stock, cream, lemon juice, pepper, salt, and crumb coating.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 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 filling

  1. Melt butter in a saucepan and stir in flour until bubbling.

  2. Combine stock, cream, and oyster or mushroom liquid to make 1 cup; pour into the saucepan and stir until thick.

  3. Add chopped chicken, mushrooms, pepper, salt, and lemon juice; stir well and remove from heat.

  4. Spread the mixture on buttered plates and chill until firm.

Shape and fry

  1. Cut into strips and shape into rolls or small pears.

  2. Roll each croquette in cracker crumbs, dip in beaten egg, and roll again in crumbs.

  3. Fry in hot fat 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

Chicken
Provides the main body and savory flavor of the filling.
Butter
Enriches the flavor and, with flour, forms the base of the thickened sauce.
Flour
Thickens the stock and cream into a sauce that holds the croquettes together.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, giving the filling a smoother, softer texture.
Egg
Binds the cracker crumb coating so it adheres and sets during frying.

The step that matters

Chill the mixture until firm. The filling must be fully cold and set before shaping; a warm, soft mixture will not hold its shape and may break apart or leak in the hot fat.

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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