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Chicken Croquettes

A fried chicken croquette made with chicken, breadcrumbs, stock, egg, and lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,958 recipes. Both carry piperonal, which smells bitter, coconut. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Heat the chicken, breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, and stock or gravy together in a saucepan.

  2. Stir in the beaten egg.

  3. Let the mixture cool.

Shape and coat

  1. Form the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Roll each croquette in breadcrumbs.

  3. Dip each croquette in beaten egg.

  4. Roll each croquette in breadcrumbs again.

Fry

  1. Carefully lift the croquettes into a frying basket.

  2. Plunge the croquettes into boiling lard for 1–2 minutes 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.

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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. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  2. Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Pepper + eggtop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

Pepper and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Chicken
Forms the bulk of the filling, giving the croquettes their savory flavor and substance.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb the stock and bind the mixture so it holds its shape, and form the crisp outer coating.
Egg
Binds the filling together and helps the breadcrumb coating adhere.
Stock or gravy
Adds moisture and flavor, keeping the filling tender rather than dry.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. A warm, moist filling is soft and sticky, so croquettes made from it can split or lose their shape. Cooling firms the mixture so it holds together through coating and frying.

“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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