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Rice Croquettes, Savoury

Rice croquettes made with boiled rice, Parmesan, mace, white pepper, savory mince, egg, and breadcrumbs, then fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Rice Croquettes, Savoury

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice

  1. Boil the rice in milk, water, or stock until thick, soft, and dry.

  2. Drain and let it cool.

  3. Mix in the Parmesan, mace, and white pepper.

Shape and coat

  1. Form the cooled rice into balls, inserting a tablespoon of savory mince in the center of each.

  2. Cover the mince completely with rice.

  3. Dip each croquette in beaten egg and then coat with bread crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry the croquettes in hot oil for 5 to 7 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.

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

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

  2. Rice + parmesan cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together879 recipes

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

  3. Mace + white peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,695 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the bulk of the croquette; cooking it thick and dry lets it hold its shape when shaped.
Egg
Binds the coating so the bread crumbs adhere and form a crisp outer shell.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.
Parmesan cheese
Adds savory, salty flavor and helps the rice mixture brown slightly.

The step that matters

Cooking the rice until thick and dry. Rice that is still wet or loose will not hold its shape when formed and may burst or fall apart in hot oil. Draining and cooling it first firms the starch so the balls stay intact.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, parmesan cheese, mace, turkey, egg, bread, milk):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, parmesan cheese, mace, turkey, egg, bread, milk. 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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