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Chicken Croquettes

A fried dish of seasoned minced chicken coated in cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper 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

Make the filling

  1. Season the minced chicken with onion juice, parsley, salt, black pepper, and cayenne.

  2. In a bowl, stir the boiling milk with butter and flour until smooth.

  3. Allow the mixture to cool, then combine it with the seasoned chicken.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Dip each croquette in beaten egg, then coat with cracker crumbs.

  3. Fry the croquettes in deep 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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  4. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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 croquettes and provides their savory filling.
Milk
Cooked with flour to form a thick binding sauce that holds the chicken together.
Flour
Thickens the boiling milk so the mixture can set firm enough to shape.
Egg
Coats the shaped croquettes so the cracker crumbs adhere and form a crust.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browning outer coating during frying.

The step that matters

Cool the milk mixture before combining. The flour-thickened milk must cool and set enough to be shaped; if it is still hot and loose, the mixture will be too soft to form croquettes that hold their shape while frying.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, parsley, pepper, milk, butter, flour, egg):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, parsley, pepper, milk, butter, flour, 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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