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Chicken Croquettes

Chicken croquettes made with minced chicken, bread crumbs, butter, flour, broth, cream, eggs, onion, parsley, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Chicken Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a saucepan, boil the melted butter, flour, cream, and chicken broth together for 2 minutes.

  2. Mix the cooked mixture into the minced chicken, then cool it.

Shape and fry

  1. Mold the mixture into croquettes, roll them in beaten egg, then in bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the croquettes 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Thickens the butter and cream into a paste that holds the croquettes together.
Eggs
Bind the coating so the bread crumbs stick to the shaped croquettes.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden browned outer layer when fried.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that helps the filling taste full and rounded.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness to the sauce-like filling.

The step that matters

Cool the filling before shaping. A warm, loose mixture will not hold its shape and may slump or split when rolled. Cooling lets the starch-thickened sauce firm up so the croquettes keep their form through coating and frying.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, bread, butter, flour, cream, egg, pepper. 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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