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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes are small, fried patties made from minced chicken, bread crumbs, spices, and eggs, served hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Combine minced chicken, bread crumbs, nutmeg, pepper, onion, and parsley in a bowl.

  2. Add chicken stock and bring to a boil.

  3. Stir in beaten eggs and cream, cooking until thickened.

  4. Spread mixture on a dish to cool.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape into egg-like forms.

  2. Roll each croquette in bread crumbs.

  3. Heat lard in a pan and fry croquettes until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve on a napkin garnished with parsley.

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

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

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

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

  3. Nutmeg + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 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

Minced chicken
Provides the main body and protein that the croquette mixture sets around.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set when cooked, holding the croquette shape.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and add body to the filling, and form a crisp outer coating.
Chicken stock
Adds moisture and savory flavor to the filling as it thickens.
Cream
Adds richness and softness to the filling.

The step that matters

Cooling the filling before shaping. A warm, loose mixture will not hold its egg-like shape and may split when fried. Spreading it out to cool lets the eggs and starch firm up so the croquettes keep their form in the hot fat.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, bread, nutmeg, pepper, parsley, egg, cream):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, bread, nutmeg, pepper, parsley, egg, cream. 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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