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Chicken Croquettes

A fried dish of seasoned chicken and mushroom mixture shaped into croquettes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a skillet, melt the butter over medium heat and sauté the grated onion until browned.

  2. Add the flour and stir for a minute, then add the liquid from the mushrooms.

  3. Stir in the chopped chicken, mushrooms, salt, pepper, and sherry; cook until the mixture begins to boil.

  4. Remove from heat and stir in the egg yolks; let the mixture cool on a plate.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes, dip in beaten egg, then roll in breadcrumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes in very hot lard 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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Mushroom + sherrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,176 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol (smoky, clove).

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

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

  5. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

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

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 croquettes and provides the main filling texture and flavor.
Egg yolks
Enrich the filling and help bind it so it holds its shape when cooled and shaped.
Flour
Thickens the liquid from the mushrooms into a cohesive filling that can be shaped.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and earthy flavor to the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and carries the onion flavor as it cooks.
Sherry
Adds aromatic, slightly sweet and acidic flavor to the filling.

The step that matters

Cool the filling before shaping. The filling must cool so it firms up enough to hold its shape; a warm, loose mixture will slump and break apart when shaped, dipped and fried.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, mushroom, butter, flour, egg, sherry, 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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