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Chicken Croquettes

A fried dish of seasoned chicken and mashed potato formed into croquettes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,756 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Chop the meat from the roast chickens and mix with 1 cup of mashed potato.

  2. Season the mixture and moisten it with gravy made from boiling down the bones.

  3. Beat in 1 or 2 whipped eggs and heat the mixture over the fire until quite stiff. Turn out the mixture and let it cool.

Shape and fry

  1. Roll into croquettes.

  2. Dip the croquettes in egg and pounded cracker.

  3. Fry in oil 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 + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  2. Meat + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Meat + potatotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together786 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Meat + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,432 recipes

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

  5. Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Meat from roast chickens
Forms the main body and flavor of the croquettes.
Mashed potato
Adds bulk and helps bind the mixture together.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set firm when heated.
Pounded cracker
Forms a crisp, browned coating when fried.

The step that matters

Heating the mixture until quite stiff. The mixture must be cooked long enough for the eggs and starch to set; if it stays soft it will not hold its shape when rolled and may break apart in the oil.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, chicken, egg):

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Potatothe original
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Leekfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, chicken, 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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