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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes made with chopped chicken, spices, walnuts, and white sauce, coated in breadcrumbs and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley 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. Mix the chicken, cayenne, nutmeg, walnuts, lemon juice, onion juice, salt, parsley, celery salt, and white sauce in a bowl.

  2. Mold the mixture into cork-shaped croquettes, using a heaping tablespoon for each.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll each croquette in breadcrumbs, dip in the beaten egg, and roll in breadcrumbs again.

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

  3. Drain on brown paper and serve with Bechamel Sauce or Sauce Supreme.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Nutmeg + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

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

  5. Nutmeg + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold chicken
Forms the bulk of the croquette and gives it its main savoury flavour.
White sauce
Binds the chopped ingredients together so the croquettes hold their shape.
English walnut meats
Adds crunchy texture and a nutty flavour that contrasts with the soft filling.
Egg
Coats the croquettes so the breadcrumbs stick and help form a crisp, browned crust.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer coating when fried.

The step that matters

Frying the croquettes in deep oil. The mixture is soft and held together only by the white sauce. If the oil is not hot enough, the croquettes absorb grease and may break apart; if it is too hot, the outside browns before the centre heats through.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, nutmeg, walnut, meat, lemon, parsley):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, nutmeg, walnut, meat, lemon, parsley. 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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