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Chicken Croquettes

A fried dish of minced chicken mixed with breadcrumbs, egg, butter, and seasonings, shaped into oval balls.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Combine minced chicken, bread crumbs, beaten egg, gravy or drawn butter, pepper, salt, chopped parsley, and the rubbed egg yolks in a bowl.

  2. Mix until just combined, ensuring the mixture is not too wet to mold.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into oval balls using floured hands.

  2. Roll each ball in flour until well coated.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry a few croquettes at a time in hot dripping or a mixture of half lard and half butter, avoiding crowding.

  2. Drain on a hot colander to remove excess fat.

  3. Serve in a heated dish with cresses or parsley.

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

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

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  5. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Minced chicken
Forms the main body of the croquette and supplies the filling's savoury flavour.
Fine bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and bind the chicken so the mixture holds its shape.
Egg
Binds the mixture together, helping the croquettes hold their shape when cooked.
Hard boiled egg yolks
Add richness and a fine, crumbly texture to the filling.

The step that matters

Keep the mixture firm enough to mold. If the mixture is too wet, the croquettes will slump and may fall apart in the hot fat. Moist bread crumbs and egg bind the filling, so it should hold together when shaped and be kept from crowding the pan so the surface can brown and crisp rather than steam.

“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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