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Rice Croquettes with Orange Sauce

Rice croquettes are fried rice cakes served with a citrusy orange sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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 with Orange Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice base

  1. Scald the rice.

  2. Bring the rice to a boil.

  3. Cook the rice for 10 minutes.

  4. Add the milk to the rice.

  5. Cook the mixture in a double boiler until the rice absorbs the milk.

  6. Mix the sugar with the egg yolks.

  7. Add the sugar and egg yolk mixture to the rice mixture.

Shape and fry

  1. Form the mixture into cylinders.

  2. Dip the cylinders in egg.

  3. Coat the cylinders with bread crumbs.

  4. Fry the croquettes in hot fat until golden brown.

Make the orange sauce and serve

  1. Grate the yellow rind of the orange.

  2. Mix the grated rind with the orange juice.

  3. Combine 1 cup of sugar and 1 tablespoon of flour in a separate bowl.

  4. Add the boiling water to the sugar and flour mixture.

  5. Bring the mixture to a boil.

  6. Add the orange juice and rind to the boiling mixture.

  7. Serve the croquettes warm with the orange sauce.

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Rice + orangetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Swells and absorbs the milk, forming a thick base that holds the croquettes together.
Milk
Cooks into the rice to give a creamy, moist interior.
Egg yolks
Enrich the mixture and help it set, adding richness and a tender texture.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer coating when fried.
Flour
Thickens the orange sauce so it becomes smooth and syrupy.

The step that matters

Cook the rice in the double boiler until it absorbs the milk. Gentle, indirect heat lets the rice absorb the milk slowly without scorching on the bottom. The mixture must be thick enough to hold its shape when cooled, or the cylinders will fall apart during dipping and frying.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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