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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes are breaded, fried chicken patties made with parsley, onion juice, thick white sauce, lemon juice, and celery salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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

Make the mixture

  1. Combine chopped chicken, parsley, onion juice, thick white sauce, lemon juice, and celery salt until soft enough to handle.

  2. Spread the mixture on a plate and cool the mixture.

Shape and coat

  1. Form the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Roll each croquette in bread crumbs, dip each croquette in beaten egg, then roll each croquette in bread crumbs again.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the croquettes in deep oil until golden brown.

  2. Serve the croquettes with tomato 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.

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

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

  2. Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

  4. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Chopped chicken
Forms the main body and bulk of the croquette filling.
Thick white sauce
Binds the chicken together and adds moisture to the filling.
Egg
Coats the croquettes so the bread crumbs adhere and form a crisp shell.
Bread crumbs
Form a golden, crisp outer crust when fried.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the mild flavor of the chicken.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture before shaping. A warm, soft filling cannot hold its shape and may crack or leak during coating. Cooling firms the white sauce so the croquettes keep their form through breading and frying.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, parsley, sauce, lemon, celery, bread, egg):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, parsley, sauce, lemon, celery, bread, egg. 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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