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Chicken or Turkey Croquettes

A fried croquette made with chopped chicken or turkey, onion, butter, flour, broth, egg yolks, mushrooms or truffles, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Chicken or Turkey Croquettes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a skillet, melt the butter and fry the chopped onion until soft.

  2. Stir in the flour and cook for 30 seconds.

  3. Add the chopped meat, broth, salt, pepper, and nutmeg; stir for 2 minutes.

  4. Remove from heat and mix in the egg yolks, stirring for 1 minute.

  5. Add the chopped mushrooms or truffles and mix well.

  6. Transfer the mixture to a dish and cool in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.

Shape and coat

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Dip each croquette in beaten egg, then roll in bread crumbs.

  3. Chill again until ready to fry.

Fry

  1. Fry the croquettes in hot 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 + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  4. Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken or turkey
Provides the main body and savoury flavour of the filling.
Egg yolks
Bind the filling and help it set firmly when cooked.
Butter
Adds richness and carries the flavour of the onion into the filling.
Flour
Thickens the broth so the filling holds its shape for shaping.
Broth
Moistens the meat and helps form a cohesive, creamy mixture.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavour and moisture to the filling.

The step that matters

Cool the filling fully before shaping. A chilled, firm mixture holds its shape during shaping and coating. If it is still warm or soft, the croquettes can slump and may crack or leak oil while frying.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, butter, flour, pepper, nutmeg, egg, mushroom. 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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