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Croquettes of Rice

A fried ball of cooked rice mixed with milk, sugar, butter, lemon rind, egg, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Croquettes of Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice mixture

  1. In a saucepan, combine rice, milk, sugar, butter, and lemon rind.

  2. Simmer gently until the rice is tender and the milk is absorbed.

  3. Beat the mixture for 3-4 minutes until thick and dry.

Shape and fry

  1. Once cool and stiff, form the mixture into small balls.

  2. Dip each ball in egg and sprinkle with bread crumbs.

  3. Fry in clarified fat until lightly browned.

  4. Drain on blotting paper and serve piled high on a dish.

Serve

  1. Optionally, add a little jam into the center of each croquette or serve jam on the side.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  4. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooks into a thick, starchy base that holds the croquettes together when shaped.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to give a creamy, moist texture to the mixture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the outside brown when fried.
Egg
Coats the balls so the bread crumbs stick and form a crisp, golden shell.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust during frying.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that softens the texture and aids flavour.

The step that matters

Beat the mixture until thick and dry. Beating while the rice is still warm drives off moisture and develops a firm, stiff paste. If it stays wet, the balls will be soft and may fall apart in the hot fat.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, sugar, butter, egg, bread):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, sugar, butter, egg, bread. 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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